Learning Regions

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ALCN Ripples June 2021 Newsletter

Submitted by Leone Wheeler on June 22, 2021 - 03:47

Instead of a quarterly Ripples newsletter, I am trialling the sending out of a more frequent newsletter, especially as we get interesting news from our members - https://mailchi.mp/490c60fe6945/alcn-ripples-april-newsletter-5253118?e=....

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City (UCL Press)

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on October 6, 2020 - 12:17

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: Urban Claims and the Right to the City: Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador da Bahia and London, edited by Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho, and Ilinca Diaconescu. 

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5th International Conference of the ESREA Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Network | Glasgow, 22 - 24 April, 2020

Submitted by Srabani Maitra on October 21, 2019 - 12:58
Apr 22 2020
Apr 24 2020
Europe/London
Partick Burgh Halls
9 Burgh Hall Street
Glasgow G11 5LN
Scotland  Scotland

On behalf of the School of Education and UNESCO RILA and CR&DALL we are delighted to invite you to participate in the next conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Network, which will take place 22-24 April 2020, at the University of Glasgow. Featured below and attached, you will find the call for papers – abstracts should be submitted by 15 November 2019.

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16th PASCAL Conference announced - "New Rural Horizons" - University College Cork, Ireland, 13-15 March, 2019

Submitted by Seamus O’Tuama on July 31, 2018 - 14:09

We are delighted to announce that the 16th PASCAL Conference, New Rural Horizons: Adult and intergenerational learning as catalysts for supporting resilient rural futures, will be held from 13-15 March 2019 in Ireland at University College Cork, and in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Further details of the event will be available at this site very shortly.

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A new imperative: regions and higher education in difficult times

Submitted by Mike Osborne on February 11, 2015 - 23:53

Something extraordinary is underway around the world, the outgoing President of Tufts University and of the Talloires Network, a ‘global coalition of engaged universities’, tells us in a 2011 international volume: ‘institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems ... the engaged university is replacing the ivory tower’ (Lawrence Bacow in Watson et al. 2011, outside cover and p. xx).

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PASCAL 2010 Keynote - Engagement in African Universities - Professor Olusola Oyewole

Submitted by Mike Osborne on December 2, 2010 - 11:31

The first keynote at the 9th PASCAL International Observatory conference in Gaborone, Botswana was presented by Professor Olusola Oyewole of African Union, Addis Ababa on the topic of Regional Engagement for African Universities: Challenges and Prospects. This presentation complemented a series of excellent welcome sessions from the Mayor of Gaborone City, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana and the Chair of the PASCAL Advisory Board.

The supporting keynote presentation outline appears below:

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Some Strategies in Building Learning Communities and Regions

Submitted by Peter Kearns on October 17, 2010 - 08:13

Peter Kearns and Denise Reghenzani Kearns have kindly written extensive notes on discussions that they had in Germany, Canada and Hong Kong during the period of June to September.  The discussions were focussed on mainly:

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A learning region is...

Submitted by Steve Rubin on April 3, 2010 - 07:21


A learning region is not simply about employment-related skills, but also about providing access to and the updating of all kinds of abilities, interests, knowledge and understanding throughout life.

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Creative City-Regions & the Role of their Creative Universities

Submitted by James Powell on February 12, 2009 - 13:28

Over the last decade the University of Salford has responded to the national and global challenges in quite a unique way.  This reflects the particular academic strength of its staff and the situation in which it found itself in the middle of the late nineties.  This strategy, developed in the light of a changing environment, focuses in particular on its development of Academic Enterprise

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Learning Regions and Learning Cities: Keystones for the development of knowledge societies in Europe

Submitted by Steve Rubin on August 7, 2008 - 03:42
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