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Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda

Submitted by Catherine Lido on November 20, 2023 - 09:52

The Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to connect regarding preliminary project findings and to conduct a high-level invited stakeholder meeting of gender practitioners, researchers, educators, industry managers and policymakers.

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Future of Ageing 2023: Solutions for longer lives

Submitted by Denise Reghenza... on November 19, 2023 - 16:11

With just three weeks to go, we're looking forward to a solutions-focused Future of Ageing 2023, and we're delighted to announce the winners of our open slot competition who will be presenting a range of solutions for longer lives at the conference on Thursday 7 December.

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European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 17, 2023 - 16:19

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

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Making better places: The Challenge of Social Cohesion | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on November 16, 2023 - 16:34

In the face of increasing social inequality, migration, social exclusion and declining social mobility the concept of social cohesion now features prominently in discourse about communities both in academic literature and in social policy debates, yet despite its widespread use by academics, policy-makers and public officials, it is a concept whose succinct definition remains elusive.

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Swansea University and PASCAL International Observatory collaborate to host Leverhulme Lecture on Islamic pedagogical capabilities for learning cities

Submitted by Annie Tubadji on November 6, 2023 - 10:18

On Thursday, 19th October 2023, Swansea University hosted a Leverhulme Lecture titled “Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities”. The lecture was presented by Nematollah Azizi, a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow and a faculty member at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. This visit was organized by Swansea University, along the International PASCAL Observatory collaboration, where Swansea Learning City and Swansea University are active members and were happy to host Professor Azizi as their guest from their partner University of Glasgow.  The lecture by Professor Azizi aimed to explore the role of Islamic pedagogical capabilities in creating and maintaining justice-oriented learning cities.

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Community school organises first learning city conference and festival in Otelu Rosu, Romania

Submitted by Rob Mark on November 3, 2023 - 13:05

Banatean High School, Otelu Rosu, in Western Romania, Timisoara region, was the focus of a week of activities in October 2023 around the theme of learning cities and regions. The event is part of a wider ‘Schools for Learning Cities’ project involving other cities in Nocera, Umbria (Italy), Alcora (Spain), Platon (Greece) and Modiin (Israel).  The programme included a 2-day conference entitled ‘Log into the Future’ with the key themes being sustainability, digitalisation, and social inclusion.

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Cities, Regions, and American National Security | The Urban Lens Newsletter

Submitted by Bob Gleeson on October 31, 2023 - 15:01

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of an obscure bureaucratic document with the formal title of “NSC 162/2 Statement of Policy by the National Security Council.” The document was finalized on October 30, 1953.

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50 years and counting: the future of community councils in Scotland | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on October 29, 2023 - 14:49

Community Councils in Scotland were created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 as the most local statutory tier of local government in Scotland, and intended as a bridge between local communities and local authorities. The legislation which founded community councils remains unaltered today despite major changes in the structure of local government in the intervening years, which has seen the removal of regional and district councils and the creation of 32 unitary local authorities in their place.

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Professor J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, 1933-2023

Submitted by John Holford on October 24, 2023 - 06:21

Former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the university, Professor J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, passed away aged 89 on Tuesday 11 July 2023. A major figure in adult education nationally and internationally, he served as Reader and later Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, as well as Deputy Head and Head of the Department of Adult Education.

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Learning shops on the High Street | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on October 24, 2023 - 04:59

Recently I attended a seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University, organized in memory of the late Professor Jim Gallacher, formerly Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University. Professor Gallacher’s main interests on which he published widely were in the fields of widening access to higher education, the role of colleges of further education and the transition from further to higher education.  The seminar heard from several speakers who offered up-to-date perspectives on these issues and particularly on efforts to recognize the benefits of pathways to higher education through further education.

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