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Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme

Posted September 21, 2023 - 15:42 by Mike Osborne

Our close friends and colleagues, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall oversee the Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme (MTP) in Community-based research.  This programme offers learning opportunities for university and community knowledge workers to take a 21-week course in teaching Community Based Research, and has been operating for five years.

REMINDER: The Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September, 2020

Posted August 25, 2020 - 09:02 by Mike Osborne

Subscribers are reminded that the first Global Learning Festival being organised by Wyndham and Melton Cities runs from 1-4 September. Some 70 events across the world are available online, and PASCAL as a sponsor encourages all of you to register for one or more of these excellent programmes.

Rwandan cities of Kigali and Huye join PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN)

Posted July 7, 2020 - 13:32 by Mike Osborne

We are delighted to announce that two cities in Rwanda, Kigali and Huye, have become members of PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks (LCN). Both cities are participants in the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) and it is a pleasure to be able to welcome them to PASCAL.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 16 - 'Learning to be as the core of learning in later life' now available in Mandarin

Posted June 14, 2019 - 13:14 by Mike Osborne

We’re very pleased to be able to report that PASCAL Briefing Paper 16, Learning to be as the core of learning in later life, written by Peter Kearns, is now available in Mandarin (featured below and attached).

Big Data in Bulgaria: Non-formal Education - Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

Posted November 20, 2018 - 16:36 by Mike Osborne

As Catherine Lido was presenting in New York, I was very pleased to be presenting, in parallel, similar material based on the work that our Urban Big Data Centre has been undertaking at a conference in Sofia entitled, Non-formal Education - Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

Learning city for creative economy and sustainable development forum to take place in Vitebsk, Belarus - October 19-20, 2018

Posted August 2, 2018 - 15:35 by Mike Osborne

I’m delighted to report following my attendance and keynote presentation at the conference “Education for Values: Continuity and Context” in Moldova on April 27-28, 2018, PASCAL has been able to re-inforce its co-operation with DVV whose offices in Eastern Europe were represented strongly. This week I met Oleg Smirnov, Director, Representative office DVV International in Ukraine to discuss further co-operation during his visit to Scotland.

PASCAL Conference in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, 30/31 August and 1 September 2018

Posted July 5, 2018 - 13:05 by Mike Osborne

The Programme for the 15th PASCAL International Conference to be co-organised and hosted by the Gyeonggi Do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning (GILL) and the Korean Academic Society for Lifelong Education from 30 August -1 September at Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, now provides further details of its content.

Seminars at Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Learning - 17 March 2018

Posted March 25, 2018 - 16:04 by Mike Osborne

PASCAL Director for Europe, Mike Osborne, and PASCAL Associate Director for Europe, Roberta Piazza, were delighted to be hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Learning (SMILE) and its director Professor Jian Huang from 15-18 March 2018. During that time, they discussed a number of areas of potential collaboration including assessment of the regional engagement role of Technical and Vocational Education Colleges in Shanghai.

The Glen Postle Intergenerational Mentoring Hub

Posted December 2, 2017 - 10:12 by Mike Osborne

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.

14th PASCAL Conference opens with inspiring introduction by Enrico Jacobs of Belgium Campus

Posted October 17, 2017 - 10:57 by Mike Osborne

I am delighted to report that the 14th PASCAL Conference has opened in Pretoria with an invigorating introduction from the Vice-Chancellor of the Belgian Campus, Enrico Jacobs.

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