Learning Cities and Regions

Culture, Religion and Urban Environment in Late Antiquity and Beyond

This workshop draws links between contemporary conceptions of cities and learning to those from antiquity. This event is part of the research project Gaza: Tradition and Leadership in a Learning City, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE Arts & Humanities Research Workshops 2014):

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Thursday, 31 July, 2014

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz - Creating a Learning Society - The 2014 RSA Scotland Angus Millar Lecture

World-renowned economist Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz will deliver the 2014 RSA Scotland Angus Millar Lecture, on the topic of creating a learning society.

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Friday, 25 July, 2014

CR&DALL Director Responds to Scotland's 'Statement of Ambition' for Adult Learning

Please find attached a response from Professor Mike Osborne, Director of CR&DALL, to the publication of Adult Learning in Scotland – Statement of Ambition.  This is a fully referenced version of an article entitled A Sense of Place, published in the July 2014 edition of Adults Learning (pp.29-31).

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Monday, 21 July, 2014

Making a Commonwealth Games Legacy Meaningful - a new International Legacy Network is launched

PASCAL, with links to Melbourne and Brisbane, Montreal and Vancouver, Barcelona, Helsinki, Glasgow and Manchester - all cities on 3 continents which have hosted or will host the Commonwealth Games or other mega-events such as the Olympics - can expect to play a role in developing the International Legacy Network, described in the attached documentation, and in building a tool kit to use the lessons of experience and facilitate knowledge exchange.

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Monday, 21 July, 2014

Ripples - Winter 2014 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

Please find attached the winter 2014 newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network. This includes reports of the recent Learning Cities workshops in Frankston, Canberra and Townsville, at which Mike Osborne, PASCAL director in Europe, spoke (and much more).

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Thursday, 19 June, 2014

Glasgow - Future City Demonstrator city - Invitation to an event on 24 July

Glasgow is the UK's Future City Demonstrator city and has developed considerable expertise in the design, development and application of future city solutions across a range of urban challenges.

These are to be found in big data, open data, transportation, energy, public safety, health, environment, communications, demography and climate change.

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Thursday, 12 June, 2014

Australian Launch of GUNi's Higher Education in the World 5

GUNi - Higher Education in the World 5Professor Mike Osborne, Director of CR&DALL and Co-Director of PASCAL, visited the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Toowoomba, Australia on 13 May. During his visit he spoke to university staff and community representatives about the GUNi Report Higher Education in the World Report 5: Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change and took the opportunity to launch this report in Australia.

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Wednesday, 28 May, 2014

Adult Learning in Scotland Statement of Ambition Launch - 21 May 2014

After a 14 month cross-sectoral consultation process, Scottish Cabinet Secretary Mike Russell officially launched a Statement of Ambition for Adult Learning in Scotland. Ambitious in scope and vision, it proposes that 'adult learning in Scotland will be recognised by all as a central element of personal and community empowerment' (p.6). Adult learning is framed as lifelong, lifewide and learner-centred, and the three stated ambitions are:

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Thursday, 22 May, 2014

ASEM LLL Hub 'Policy Briefs' May 2014

The objective with Policy Briefs is to deliver research-informed analysis and recommendations on new policies for the benefit of ASEM members, governments and stakeholders. With this newsletter we will update our readers when new policy briefs on policies of lifelong learning are issued on our website.

Policy Briefs are designed by the ASEM LLL Hub members on the basis of their research and based on national or international policies in lifelong learning.

In this third issue you will be able to read a Policy Brief titled:

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Wednesday, 7 May, 2014

Global Network of Learning Cities Newsletter April 2014

CR&DALL is pleased to feature the first edition of the Global Network of Learning Cities Newsletter:

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Wednesday, 16 April, 2014

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