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Compare and Contrast - PIAAC interpretations

Subscribers may be interested in following the progression of an item that we recently produced on the PIAAC results from the UK:

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Tuesday, 29 October, 2013

World Access Congress Follow up

On behalf of the EAN, I would like to express a huge appreciation of everyone who took part in the first ever World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education in Montreal last week. We hope your participation in the congress was successful and that it led to many new contacts, exciting project ideas and partnerships.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

Glasgow: A City of the Future - the EcCoWell Approach for 2020

Despite demanding weather and travel conditions in Scotland, we were delighted to have been able to run the second EcCoWell conference successfully in Glasgow on 5 December.

A full report, all presentations and some videos of the event will be published in due course. See below for attachments of those we have received to date.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

First report from the inaugural UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities, Beijing

I am pleased to report that the first two days of the inaugural UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities hosted by the Government of Beijing Municipal City and the Minister of Education, China, has successfully concluded with the assent by acclamation of the Beijing Declaration of Learning Cities.

Full details will follow in a subsequent posting.

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A number of PASCAL associates, including Heribert Hinzen, Ron Faris, Shirley Walters and Norman Longworth played key roles, as did PASCAL Director, Michael Osborne. We were also very pleased that another associate, Liza Ireland, currently working in China for Royal Roads University was able to join us.

 

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PIAAC events in Barcelona and Edinburgh

We are delighted to announce that PASCAL will be collaborating with the  Jaume Bofill Foundation in Barcelona in organising two events concerned with the recent OECD PIAAC study.

Details of the first of these events to be held in Barcelona on 7 November 2013 are attached below. The day consists of a seminar with invited guests from 0900-1400 at Palau Macaya, Passeig de Sant Joan, 108 – Barcelona and a Conference open to all at 18.30h at Cercle d’Economia, Provença, 298 – Barcelona.

A second event is in planning for early in the New Year in Edinburgh with additional collaborators in the form of College Development Network and the Scotland's Learning Partnership.

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International Conference on Learning Cities - Beijing, China, 21–23 October 2013

We are delighted to provide the details of the UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities, to be held in Beijing from 21–23 October 2013. PASCAL is a collaborating partner of the programme, and PASCAL Director, Professor Michael Osborne will be a plenary panellist, presenting on the topic of The role of research and collaboration in promoting the learning city. One of his fellow panellist will be PASCAL Associate, Ron Faris, who will speak on the subject of Assessment of learning cites/regions.

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Saturday, 5 October, 2013

New book launched: The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism

This week sees the publication of The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism and follows on from two previous Red Papers (1975 The Red Paper on Scotland; 2006 The Red Paper 30 years on).

This has already gained some advanced publicity in the Glasgow Herald

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Tuesday, 10 September, 2013

CR&DALL Seminar 2013 Series: "Croatia and EU Membership" a joint seminar with the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies !!NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!!

A seminar presented by His Excellency Professor Ivan Grdešić, the Republic of Croatia's ambassador to the UK.

MONDAY 16th of SEPTEMBER, 2013 at 14.30 in Seminar Room 1 (Sir Hugh Fraser), Wolfson Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow. See the attached flyer for full details.

Given the high turnout anticipated, we must stress that intending participants MUST reserve a place by e-mailing [email protected]

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Monday, 5 August, 2013

Joint University of Edinburgh/LSE afternoon seminar

 

"Educational attainment and inequality in Scotland:
How does Scotland compare with the rest of the UK?"

Date: Wednesday 28th August 2013

Venue:  G.21 Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

 

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

SHRE Research Awards 2013

See attached flyer for details and contact information

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

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