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Climate change and sustainable development goals

A new blog post by Joy Hyvarinen ( considers climate change and the new sustainable development goals. It suggests that thinking about the climate treaty’s goal to slow climate change to a level that is not dangerous could help to design the new goals.

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9th International Conference on Work and Learning - Singapore 2015

Having been to three of these conferences (Denmark, China, Scotland), I can highly recommend it. The atmosphere is very welcoming for postgraduate students! Here are the official details:

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Learning from the Hieroglyphics

Two pieces translated from hieroglyphics as food for thought for the weekend passed on by my colleague Dr. Angela McDonald, Subject Specialist and University Teacher - Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the Centre for Open Studies on the train home earlier in the week:

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Community Development Society Conference - Call for Abstracts

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Community Development Society will focus on effective community development strategies, programs, and policies - fostered by CD practitioners, academics, elected officials, development organizations, organized citizens and motivated individuals - meant to inspire a Renaissance in communities around the world.

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Honeymoon period for private sector providers in Eastern Europe comes to an end

Despite the post-communist (or post state socialist) boom in private higher education provision  it appears that it is coming to an end with delining numbers and claims of dubious quality:

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Bonnie Slade at ASEM Research Hub for Lifelong Learning meeting in Bangkok

On December 2-3 I attended the Annual Meeting of the National Strategies for Lifelong Learning Hub of ASEM in Bangkok, Thailand at the Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.  This international network included researchers, practitioners and policy makers from 11 Asian and European countries.  Delegates from all countries made presentations on issues such as employability and skills development, community learning, learning cities, and the impact and outcome of lifelong learning.

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