Widening Participation and Access

The Equality Project: Starting from Home - Reducing Gender Inequalities in Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania.

A team lead by Dr Katarzyna Borkowska (School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, UK) has secured research funding from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) under the aegis of its contribution to the University of Glasgow to develop projects associated with Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) research. The project entitled: ‘Gender Equality Starts at Home: Reducing Gender Inequalities in Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania’ brings together the following Co-Is:

  • Dr Lavinia Hirsu (School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK)
  • Dr Amina Kamando (University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania)
  • Dr Keneilwe Molosi-France (University of Botswana, Botswana)
  • Dr Nancy Njiraini  (Strathmore University, Kenya)

All of the international co-Is from the global south are former PhD students from the School of Education at the University of Glasgow.

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Friday, 13 September, 2019

BA Community Development students reach new heights in New Delhi

After many months (and then some), at the end of March 2019, 18 staff and students left Glasgow and landed safely in New Delhi, India.

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Tuesday, 7 May, 2019

Special call for applications from early career access/widening participation practitioners and researchers - FACE 2019

FACE is now delighted to invite applications for a sponsored place at the 26th FACE Annual Conference hosted by Sheffield Hallam University, 3rd -5th July 2019.

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Friday, 26 April, 2019

Invitation – Digital learning for marginalized groups – 30 April

Digital learning media open up new and different opportunities for learning and teaching. It is important that these opportunities are open to those who do not enjoy privileged access to education, including refugees and migrants and people with low levels of basic education.

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Tuesday, 23 April, 2019

Perspectives on Access to Higher Education: Practice and Research

Dr Samantha Broadhead from Leeds Arts university; Rosemarie Davis from the Skills Company, Manchester and Tony Hudson from University of East London have written a book for Emerald Publishing that takes a critical look at Access to HE education from its early days in the late 1960s to more current developments. 

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Monday, 1 April, 2019

The vlog channel "Aging for Beginners" has launched

On YouTube the vlog channel "Aging for Beginners" has launched. Populations are aging, our customers are aging, we all in person are in the process of aging, but the acquisition of knowledge about normal aging is still based on a trial and error method. The professional ager Tiina Tambaum shows in her vlogs what are the needs of normally ageing persons, and together with the successful ager Ants Värnik they discuss age-related things.

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Tuesday, 5 February, 2019

Supporting refugees to access higher education - A rich resource from the European Resettlement Network

Refugees can face many barriers to accessing higher education, including a lack of information, advice and individual guidance sensitive to their specific needs, inadequate provision of intensive language courses for academic purposes, and restricted access to government student finance schemes.

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Monday, 17 December, 2018

Generations Working Together: Intergenerational training courses

Generations Working Together (GWT) is pleased to announce the following information about our forthcoming intergenerational training courses:

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Sunday, 19 August, 2018

Special Edition of the Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning - Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2018

The Open University has published a Special Edition of the Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning (Volume 20, Number 3, July 2018) has now been published. Further information is detailed below.

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Thursday, 9 August, 2018

Report on seminar in honour of Lalage Bown - 23 May 2018

CR&DALL was delighted to host a seminar in honour of Emerita Professor Lalage Bown on 23 May 2018 in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow to mark her continuing commitment to adult education and international development in her 10th decade.

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Wednesday, 18 July, 2018

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