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Conference 7 Dec 2018: HELLIN (HE Lifelong Learning in Ireland Network) Maynooth University - Transitions: Lifelong Learning and Higher Education

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Education is a highly personalised yet social phenomenon. Learning spans the lifetime of every individual and the contexts in which learning takes place cannot be separated from the influences of political, social and ever more increasingly economic concerns. The conflation of learning, education, school and college has gone largely unexamined alongside the reductionist idea that ‘being educated’ is  good if for no other reason than the financial benefit to the individual of becoming a ‘high earner’.

World Cities Day: 31 October 2018

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The United Nations has designated every 31st October as World Cities Day. The day is expected to greatly promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contributing to sustainable urban development around the world.

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