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Support for part-time students - Open University campaign

The Open University has launched a Twitter campaign to draw Westminster government's attention to the significant decline in part-time student numbers. We are calling for government to lift the funding restriction in England stopping many adults from retraining with a second degree.

Learning cities: developing inclusive, prosperous and sustainable urban communities - available in Mandarin

I am pleased to report that the special issue of the International Review of Education, edited by PASCAL Director Mike Osborne, LCN Director Peter Kearns and the former leader of the UNESCO’s Learning Cities initiative, Jin Yang, on the topic of learning cities is now available in Mandarin with the ISBN 978-7-5191-0206-7.

Opportunity: Professor/Reader of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Glasgow

Please find below the advertised details of an exciting opportunity with huge potential for a Professor/Reader of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Glasgow. Applications are due by 5 December 2016 and the date for interviews has been set for 20 January 2017 in Glasgow, UK.

2017 Heart of the Community Grant Applications are open!

Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2017 Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community grant!

'Ethical Cities' Massive Open Online Course starts this month

Who runs your city? What makes your city liveable? Using stories from cities around the world, this course will introduce you to the importance of ethics in civic leadership, planning, and business, and citizen engagement.

PASCAL Observatory Africa Centre for Economic Development: Highlight Report on Learning City Project - Theewaterskloof

The PASCAL Observatory Africa Centre for Economic Development is building a network of PASCAL Associates with the aim of developing a larger set of connections within Africa. The Centre is also commencing work on two ‘learning city’ projects.

NEXUS July – September 2016 - the Newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)

Please find featured below the latest issue of Nexus, the quarterly newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

Placemaking Newsletter | Key Takeaways from Vancouver

In this issue: Key takeaways from Vancouver; Placemaking and the New Urban Agenda; Jane Jacobs on funding great places; Chamber musicians are placemakers too! ; and PPS joins the Clinton Global Initiative.

Cities as Platforms and Smart Cities, Issue Two: Summer 2016 - PASCAL SIG: Public Sector Interface

In this second issue, the theme of Cities as platforms and Smart Cities is considered. The PASCAL network has previously linked debate about Smart Cities to the theme of Entrepreneurial Learning Cities (see Learning Cities Networks). The authors in this paper build on this work with a focus on Knowledge City models and other city frameworks; the role of technology and the value that Higher Education Institutes can add when they form strategic partnerships.

What will the Future EU27 do? | The New 1930s | Cyber-Terrorism : Roundup of free RMIT Seminars, Oct 2016

With topics ranging from the face of the new European Union, to the triumph over communism of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, to the liberal democracy of the new 1930s, to Cyber-Terrorism and Cyber- Warfare; RMIT is hosting a highly engaging range of free seminars in October:

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