Network Blogs

Here are the latest Learning Cities Networks Blog postings (to see specific Network Blogs, please click on the relevant name from the list of NETWORKS in the left hand column):

 

PIMA Bulletin No. 38 (Sept 2021)

Posted Monday, September 27, 2021 - 11:40 by Shirley Walters

Network: Learning Cities: Meeting Today’s Challenges for a Better Future

This issue of the Bulletin is unusually long and diverse. Readers are reminded that it is an open access publication. Anyone is welcome to share it, in full or a particular article or passage, acknowledging the original PIMA source.

How will we remember 2021? The year of COVID-19 (variant Delta) and what it meant to oneself, one’s family, community, life, work, even country?. Maybe if we are in educational settings - school, community centre, or higher education institution (HEI) - for its transformative effect on teaching methods, market appeal, loss of income and insecurity of employment?

Next meeting of the Connecting Rural and Urban Learning Initiatives (LCN) - 23 September, 2021

Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 13:04 by Leone Wheeler

Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

The sixth meeting of the Connecting Rural and Urban Learning Initiatives ( a PASCAL LCN network) will be held online on Thursday 23 September, 2021, starting at 9.30 pm (AEST); 12.30 pm (BST). The topic is: Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs: building the capacity of community leaders and policy makers.

Notes from the ninth meeting of the PASCAL Learning Cities Networks “Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures” (RIEF) on 7 July, 2021

Posted Friday, July 30, 2021 - 11:07 by Judith James

Network: Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures

Attendees: Annie Tubadji, Swansea University; Mike Osborne, Director of PASCAL ; Leone Wheeler, Lead for the Australian Learning Cities Network and PASCAL Board Member; Annina Martin, Education Department of Glasgow City Council; Jac Torres Gomez, Wyndham learning City and joint lead for the Global Learning Festival; Kristiina Erkkilä, Espoo Learning City and lead for the RIEF Entrepreneurial Learning Theme.

Learning Cities as Inclusive Learning Ecosystems

Posted Monday, July 19, 2021 - 12:26 by Peter Kearns

Network: Learning Cities: Meeting Today’s Challenges for a Better Future

The UNESCO Futures of Education Commission in March 2021 issued a Progress Update on this initiative. A point of particular interest from the perspective of learning cities and communities was a comment on “The organisation and governance of education: building inclusive educational ecosystems” (UNESCO, 2021:13).

Learned Society of Wales awards Dr Annie Tubadji with the Dillwyn Medal

Posted Monday, July 5, 2021 - 07:37 by Judith James

Network: Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures

We are delighted to announce that Wales’s premier scholarly body, the Learned Society of Wales, has awarded Dr Annie Tubadji with the Dillwyn Medal.

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