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).

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).

Professor 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.

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: