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Minds Wide Open

Prof. Henry Brimmer, faculty member in Michigan State University’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations has developed an exciting program that brings students from around the world to collaboratively tackle an advertising issue generated by a business wishing to expand its reach to younger audiences.

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Monday, 1 May, 2017

Lifelong Learning in Karlstad, Sweden

The city of Karlstad, in a rural region of mid-western Sweden, has a longstanding tradition of systematic and strategic work to produce and foster an attractive and inclusive city, capitalising on local cultural assets.

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Monday, 22 August, 2016

Community Development, The Arts and Issues of Criminality and Justice

Vox Liminis is a creative community, developing the role of the arts in reducing crime and promoting justice in Scotland. 

Working primarily through music, we work in prisons with prisoners and professional singer-songwriters to write songs together. We also work with families affected by crime.

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Thursday, 10 December, 2015

Moving, Teaching, Inspiring: The Power of Place and Past in the Future of Adult Learning

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the second decade of the 21st century, British adult education is characterised by diversity, insecurity and informality. With provision mainly self-funded, organisations are re-thinking their missions, target audiences and modes of approach – while trying to hold on to core values.

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Saturday, 28 November, 2015

International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities - Migration Workshop

We are living in cities which are becoming more culturally and linguistically diverse through migration. In 2015 CAMOC, in its special 10th year anniversary, decided to focus on migration and its representation in city museums, first by dedicating its annual conference on the theme and now by partnering with the Open Museum, Glasgow to organise a special interactive workshop on 26/27 November 2015.

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Thursday, 29 October, 2015

Wellbeing and learning for a better life: Reflecting across cultures and contexts - Nov 3, Glasgow

The Urban Big Data Centre in partnership with CR&DALL presents a half-day conference on "Wellbeing and learning for a better life: Reflecting across cultures and contexts" featuring Prof. Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia, and Dr.

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Monday, 19 October, 2015

Universities and Lifelong Learning (UALL) series - 50% discount to CR&DALL subscribers

The Universities and Lifelong Learning (UALL) series (edited by Professor Michael Osborne) and published by Manchester University Press (MUP) analyses the external engagement activities of universities and third-level institutions and is concerned with the range of activity that lies beyond the traditional mission of teaching and research.

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Thursday, 15 October, 2015

Spare Rib magazine goes online for the first time

Few titles sum up an era and a movement like Spare Rib. With its commitment to challenging the status quo, Spare Rib battled oppression and gave a voice to the struggles, discussions and debates of diverse groups of women over the 21 years it was in print (1972-1993).

From today, every edition of Spare Rib magazine will be available to be viewed by anyone online for free.

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Friday, 12 June, 2015

Summer Seniors University, Majorca - September 2015

The Summer Seniors University has been hosted for a number of years by the University of the Balearics in Palma, Majorca – it takes place annually in September.  Participants come from a range of European countries.

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Friday, 8 May, 2015

Standing Up For Education

We are a group of academics and educational researchers who support the broad policy agenda presented in the NUT‘s Stand Up for Education campaign. We see the Stand up for Education initiative as a welcome attempt to present a much more positive and optimistic vision of education than that currently on offer (see our statement of support and list of signatories).

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Thursday, 15 January, 2015

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