The 23rd Annual Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) Conference will take place on 29th June – 1st July 2016 at the Queen’s University Belfast campus.
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Friday, 15 April, 2016
The 23rd Annual Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) Conference will take place on 29th June – 1st July 2016 at the Queen’s University Belfast campus.
We are delighted to announce that researchers with the School of Education at the University of Glasgow are partners within a new project funded by the European Commission within the call of H2020-YOUNG-3-2015 Lifelong learning for young adults: better policies for growth and inclusion in Europe.
The aim of this series is to ground and contextualise discussions of widening participation, which can often be spoken of in largely abstract terms, in considerations of the local and micro practices of WP by focusing on two large and complex cities (Sheffield and London) and on Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland which face different challenges in relation to WP and to the idea of the ‘local’.
The aim of this series is to ground and contextualise discussions of widening participation, which can often be spoken of in largely abstract terms, in considerations of the local and micro practices of WP by focusing on two large and complex cities (Sheffield and London) and on Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland which face different challenges in relation to WP and to the idea of the ‘local’.
Inclusion has been central to the concept of a learning city from the beginning. While useful work has been undertaken in addressing exclusion in both the PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE) and Learning Cities Networks (LCN) programs, global contextual shifts and issues with mass migration flows, instability and high unemployment in many countries, and structural industry changes have raised a new generation of exclusion issues to add to the traditional issues in various stages of the lifecourse. PASCAL will be addressing these issues at their 13th International Conference in Glasgow, 3-5 June, 2016.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We invite you to participate at the International Symposium on Education and Social Inequality held by the Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, April 19-21, 2016.
This is our Second Call for Papers for the XIV Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) that will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 14 - 17 June 2016.
The interim report of the Commission on Widening Access to HE in Scotland has recently been published together with a summary of evidence submitted. I am a little surprised to find no reference to adult learning and second chance education in the report, though pleased to see that some of the issues that I raised are documented in the summary of evidence. I attach the report, the summary of evidence, and my own submission on behalf of CR&DALL.
The Open University’s Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships will be holding their Widening Participation Conference "HE: Transforming lives through life-wide learning?" on 27th and 28th April 2016 at the Jury's Inn in Milton Keynes.
UNESCO invited around 100 partners, representing governments, civil society, universities and other stakeholders from around the world for a Global Meeting to discuss achievements made, and look into the way forward to cope with a situation where more than seven hundred millions youth and adults are denied the human right to literacy.
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