Britain-Nepal Academic Council is holding this year's annual lecture with Professor Sushan Acharya on 9th December. This may be of interest to some colleagues especially in the areas of gender and adult literacy.

For partners reference and action | ASEF Invitation to Pitching Event for Tech Solutions: 23rd ASEF Summer University on Sustainable Urbanisation. Please find featured below and attached an important update related to the 23rd ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU23), a virtual Hackathon on “Liveable Cities for a Sustainable Future”, which focuses on three of the most populated countries in ASEM: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

A special issue of Studies in the Education of Adults on the arts, creativity and adult education is now available at Taylor & Francis Online; the article Adult education, the arts and creativity, by Nicola Dickson & Darlene E. Clover is featured below and attached.

This symposium is occasioned by three remarkable PhD dissertations in the field of learning and development. All three concern strategies of fostering agency of those less heard: of school children and teachers in a local school in Groningen, of youth and their educators in vocational education in Uganda, and of lifelong learning practitioners in NGOs in Uganda. All three apply Action Research methods aimed at freeing, ‘unlocking’, the agency of participants and their communities.