LCN News

News about or related to Learning Cities Networks:

 

Chair's letter 2024

Posted January 14, 2025 - 15:31 by Josef Konvitz

The year 2024 was exceptional.  PASCAL has grown with the adhesion of two new centres.  In New Brunswick, New Jersey USA, Prof. Radha Jagannathan leads a centre at Rutgers University, a key institution in the greater New York metropolitan region.  This centre promises to improve our understanding of youth education (STEM) and employment issues, with a focus on the design and planning of infrastructure, to strengthen connections between universities and the public sector.  Catherine Lido, Glasgow Centre Director, travelled to New Jersey to attend the launch of the Rutgers Centre.

Place identity and social change | Reflections on a seasonal visit to the Scottish Highlands

Posted January 7, 2025 - 14:47 by John Tibbitt

I have recently returned from an enjoyable, if rather windswept seasonal break on the coast of the north west Highlands in Scotland. The place we were staying was in a small crofting community at the end of a twisting and hilly single rack road, some 10 miles or so from the nearest village with some shops and public services such as a school, health services, a community centre (and a golf course by the beach).

New open online course, ‘Distributing learning and knowledge creation’

Posted December 17, 2024 - 11:10 by Richard Heller

An open online course, ‘Distributing learning and knowledge creation’, aims to set open and distributed education in a broad framework of knowledge equity. Published under a CC licence, universities are free to use, and adapt, the course to build capacity among their staff and others for reducing inequity via distributing education to those who currently miss out.

MacJannet Prize Symposium on Migration, Refugee Integration, and Participatory Action Research December 16, 2024 8:00am - 9:30am EST

Posted December 13, 2024 - 17:24 by Mike Osborne
Dec 18 2024 08:00
Dec 18 2024 09:30
US/Eastern
Talloires Network of Engaged Universities
Barnum 163 Packard Ave
Medford
United States  United States

The Talloires Network at  Tufts University will be hosting the second MacJannet Prize symposium on December 16, 2024 from 8:00am - 9:30am EST, and this will explore the intersections of migration, refugee integration, and participatory action research.

Report from the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame conference - Florence 2024

Posted December 6, 2024 - 15:38 by Arne Carlsen

I would like to extend a warm thank you to all the International, European and North American organisations and journals in adult and continuing education, that partnered with the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame to organise the Conference “Revitalising Adult Continuing Education for Positive Social Changes and Personal Fulfilment” on 7-9 November 2024 in Florence, including the PASCAL Observatory.

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

X