Higher education confronts a curious paradox. One of its traditional core missions is innately conservative: to conserve and transmit knowledge and culture for and to future generations. This tends also to be conservative in the related sense of reproducing the cultures – the modes, values and mores – of the different societies which it inhabits and which sustain it.
People India organization, established in 2013, stands for peace, literacy, and education. One of its programmes, CRCW (Career Research and Counselling Wing), aims at providing free career counselling to students studying in Government Schools. Read this and other news on Indian higher education in India in the latest PRIA Newsletter:
During the past 3 years, the VINCE project has developed training materials for university staff working in processes of Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) and Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (VNIL) with migrant and/or refugee students. The objective has been to provide university staff with tools to be better equipped when working with newcomers who want to access Higher Education (HE) and want to be more aware and integrated in European society.
In this issue we've gathered stories about the impact of community-based adult learning programs from around Australia.
In this issue we profile a community resource centre in the bushfire ravaged town of Yarloop in WA that is playing a lead role in the healing and rebuilding of the community.
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