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Join us in Dublin for the European Access Network‘s First Policy Seminar in Ireland Social Dimension of Europe 2020: Diversity in Higher Education.
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Two new CRADALL projects funded by the EC have justed started.
LETAE is funded under the EC's LLP, Erasmus Multilateral Partnerships aims to study the TLL strategies of higher education institutes to improve the quality of work of learners and the quality of their work performance.
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Our newsletter attached with our compliments.
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The 2014 BAICE conference will be held from 8 - 10 September, 2014 at the University of Bath on the theme of “Power, Politics and Priorities for Comparative and International Education.” The conference challenges participants to consider how comparisons are used as part of wider political agendas, to investigate power relationships in educational policy and practice, and to critically consider priorities for contemporary research. Papers will focus on the following sub-themes:
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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:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/world/europe/a-testing-time-for-privat...
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Professor Mike Osborne and Dr Muir Houston of PASCAL and CR&DALL are involved in a new project funded under the Erasmus Multilateral funding stream which builds on the work of the THEMP project.
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We are very pleased to be part of this ERASMUS intensive programme on adult and lifelong learning, part-funded by the European Commission within its Lifelong Learning Programme at Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany from February 9-22, 2014.
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The UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education – “Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st Century”, was held form 2-4 December 2013 in Bangkok. As announced during the concluding session, most of the presentations (including both the plenary and the concurrent sessions) and a list of participants have been just uploaded to Dropbox.
So for those of you who were not there Click here to view UNESCO Forum on GCE 2013 at Dropbox
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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.
The ASEM LLL Hub, established in 2005, is an official network of Asian and European higher education institutions, working and learning together to achieve excellence in comparative research on lifelong learning, to offer research-based education policy recommendations, and to develop mutual understanding between Asia and Europe. The University of Glasgow is a member.
The keynote speaker Dr. Sombat Suwannappitak, former Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education in Thailand, gave a wonderful overview of lifelong learning strategies in Thailand. Of great interest to me were the robust state policies on the delivery and recognition of non-formal and informal learning, influenced by Canadian Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) and Australian Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) initiatives. Non-formal and informal learning in Thailand has a strong infrastructure, with Community Learning Centres (CLC) in every district of the country. We were able to visit three CLCs, witnessing first hand how lifelong learning policies are put into practice.
Lifelong learning policies tied in with community learning and learning city initiatives are being implemented all across Asia and Europe. This network provides an important forum for comparative research on and analysis of national lifelong learning strategies, promoting dialogue on policy, research and practice.
Many thanks to the organisers, Dr. Min Han and Haixia Xu (National Centre for Education Development Research, China), and Professor Sumalee Sungsri of the host institution, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, for making the meeting so successful.
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