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

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.

The challenges of seniors' lifelong learning in Taiwan

This Taiwan Insight opinion piece describes the challenges of an ageing population and the attempts to make greater longevity purposeful.  It also looks at the programs of  Active Ageing Learning Centres (ALLC) planned by the Ministry of Education for implementation (363 at the end of 2017).  Courses are designed for active ageing. 

Growth of the Placemaking Movement

Learning cities and placemaking share much in common in the aspiration to build better human-centred cities. The placemaking movement has grown from a small organization in New York named the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) to a large international movement across 3,000 communities in 47 countries.

Inspiring stories of lifelong learning from around Australia: Quest magazine - ALA Member News, July 2018

Welcome to our second issue of Quest for 2018 featuring some inspiring stories about adult learning programs and the people involved in them from around Australia!

Part-time University Tutor post in Psychology in Department for Lifelong Learning, University of Sheffield (fixed term)

The Department for Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield has the following vacancy available to work in their expanding programme of degrees with foundation year, focussing in particular upon delivery of our Foundations of Psychology module. 

Lifelong Learning in Korea - June 2018 (NILE)

We are delighted to share our  2018 1st issue of our semiannual web magazine Lifelong Learning in Korea.

Lifelong Learning in Korea is published by the Office of Public Relations and International Affairs at NILE and the objective is to share Korean lifelong education projects and cases with policy makers, researchers, experts and practitioners from all over the world.

The title of the 1st issue of 2018 is "The fourth National Lifelong Learning Promotion Plan (2018-2022)".

ALADIN Online Alert 21

The ALADIN Online Alert is a joint ALADIN initiative, produced bimonthly by the UIL Library and CDÉACF, with input from additional ALADIN members from all over the world. Its goal is to share recent online and full-text information and documents in the area of adult and lifelong learning.

Cross-cultural discussions about lifelong education for all (and especially seniors) in Thailand and other ageing societies

This article concerned with Lifelong Learning with a focus on seniors is from PIMA Bulletin 18, the whole of which can be found at this link.

Later Life Learning and Older Adults

These are two extracts concerned with Later Life Learning and Older Adults from PIMA Bulletin 18, the whole of which can be found at this link. The authors Thomas Kuan and Alex Withnall will both be presenting papers related to this theme at the next PASCAL conference in Korea on 30/31 August/1 September.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 17 - A benchmarking approach to understanding community engagement and learning cities

The development of a learning city requires city leaders to build a complex partnership with a potentially large number of stakeholders in city institutions, business and civic society. Of the wide variety of measurement tools available to cities to gain some understanding of their strategy needs and performance, the paper argues that a benchmarking approach, using a mixture of qualitative self-assessment supported by some qualitative data offers the most fruitful approach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of policy and practice, and offers a guide to prioritising actions.

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