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2018 MacJannet Prize Call for Nominations!

Submitted by Mike Osborne on January 8, 2018 - 08:27

The Talloires Network is proud to announce the ninth annual MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship. The prize will recognize exceptional student civic engagement initiatives based in Talloires Network engaged member universities around the world and contribute financially to their ongoing public service efforts.

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Senior Business Development Manager vacancy, UBDC Glasgow

Submitted by Sarah Currier on January 3, 2018 - 14:06

Deadline for applications: 7 January, 2018

The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow is advertising an extremely important post for us: Senior Business Development Manager, who will primarily be working on sustainability for the Centre and Centre finances in general.

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PIMA Newsletter-Bulletin No 15, December 2017

Submitted by Chris Duke on December 23, 2017 - 09:19

PIMA Newsletter-Bulletin No 15 December 2017 carries letters about living with critical change when so much is going on, and asks about our place-based lifelong learning mission with the critical issues and events of today.

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The Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub

Submitted by Mike Osborne on December 2, 2017 - 09:12

I’m delighted to have been able to have visited PASCAL Associate Glen Postle and see the Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub at the Flexischool in Toowoomba. Glen has been working intensively in the development of the school over the past 20 years and continues to do so.

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PIMA Newsletter No 14, October 2017

Submitted by Chris Duke on November 8, 2017 - 10:29

Please find featured below and attached the PIMA Newsletter No 14, for October 2017.

PIMA is part of the total PASCAL endeavour to promote and advance our shared values and purposes in a rapidly changing world. It seeks to support and complement the central thrust of Board policies, adding to the suite in ways and areas that the Board may not be able directly to undertake.

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University of Edinburgh Access Programme - Vacancies

Submitted by Lucy Bate on October 3, 2017 - 08:09

The Centre for Open Learning at University of Edinburgh are advertising for three part-time Teaching Fellow posts which carry the main course development responsibility for their Part-Time Access programme, which launches in August 2018.

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Making New Cities Out of Old - newCities.org

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on September 26, 2017 - 04:13

As several catastrophes hit Mexico, the United States and the Caribbean, Josef Konvitz writes about why it is so difficult to introduce major changes in cities undergoing reconstruction.  The following article appeared in the September issue of the Greenfield Cities Alliance Newsletter produced by the New Cities Foundation. The Alliance is well-represented in Africa, where the issues raised by this article are especially relevant.  

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A Program Masterpiece as 1st Conference for PASCAL in Africa... not to be missed

Submitted by André Snyman on September 12, 2017 - 04:02

The preliminary Conference Agenda is now available on the website for viewing and download. Early-bird registration still available!

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PASCAL Conference 2018: Updated title and sub-themes

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on September 12, 2017 - 03:23

The 15th PASCAL Conference, to be held in Korea on 30 August - 1 September 2018 has an updated title and sub-themes. The venue is the city of Suwon, part of metropolitan Seoul, Korea. The co-organiser is the GyeonggiDo Provincial Institute of Lifelong Learning (GILL).  The main theme of this first East Asia PASCAL Conference is "Learning Cities, Learning Societies: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice to Meet Local and Global Challenges”.  

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PASCAL Faiths and Learning Cities Network organises its first meeting in New York

Submitted by Rob Mark on September 11, 2017 - 05:18

The new PASCAL Faiths and Learning Cities Network had its first Skype meeting with delegates from the USA, UK and Israel. The main purpose is to bring together interested scholars and practitioners in this area to share ideas and experiences about how the network should proceed.

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