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Professor Deo Jaganyi appointed Vice-Chancellor of Mount Kenya University

Professor Deo Jaganyi appointed Vice-Chancellor of Mount Kenya University

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We are very pleased to announce the installation on 29 January of Professor Deo Jaganyi as Vice-Chancellor of Mount Kenya University. He has moved back to his home country following a period as Director of Research at the University of Rwanda where he was a close collaborator in our work in the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods.

Adult education free Gresham lectures online, includes Chris Whitty on Vaccination on 10 Feb, 2021

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Here are some details of Gresham College’s free public lectures (running since 1597); they include lecturers like Professors Chris Whitty who is speaking about Vaccination on 10 Feb, Edith Hall (Classics), Leslie Thomas QC (Law), and Joanna Bourke (Cultural History).

PIMA Bulletin No. 34 - January 2021

PIMA Bulletin No. 34 - January 2021

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We begin this ambiguous New Year on an upbeat note: Chris Brooks demurs at the prevailing doom and gloom with which we farewelled 2020, noting causes for collective pride. Yet there is also a blunt closing challenge: in his rural village ‘flat-earthers’ display ‘thoughtless thinking and a failure to identify and examine the facts’. ‘Surely this is a major educational failure. What should we do?’ Brooks asks.

#LearningPlanet Festival | The World Committee on Lifelong Learning sends you its Best Wishes for 2021!

#LearningPlanet Festival

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You are invited to participate in the 2nd edition of the #LearningPlanet Festival, on the theme "Learning to take care of yourself, others and the planet" which will take place online on January 24 and 25, 2021, on the occasion of the International Education Day.

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