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Australian Journal of Adult Learning: Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development

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Adult Learning Australia (ALA) has declared 2018 to be a Year of Lifelong Learning. This raises many questions about why Lifelong Learning should be a priority. How might policy to promote Lifelong Learning develop? Are there particular outcomes which should be anticipated from a year focused on lifelong learning? How to get the various stakeholders for formal, non-formal and informal learning across various age levels to work together to promote a more coherent and engaged framework for all people to see themselves on a lifelong learning journey?

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ALA summit: Towards a national lifelong learning policy for Australia

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From ideal to real: Australia does not have a formal lifelong learning policy. A lifelong learning policy would acknowledge learning beyond employment and re-skilling, and highlight its role in social mobility, community building and health and wellbeing. A formal lifelong learning policy would support Australians to:

  • reach their potential
  • better anticipate transitions
  • self-manage their health and wellbeing.

Creative Approaches to Lifelong Learning: Engaging and supporting mature, part-time and widening participation learners in higher education

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The Universities’ Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) Student Experience Network invites you to Creative Approaches to Lifelong Learning:  Engaging and supporting mature, part-time and widening participation learners in higher education, a one-day event taking a holistic approach to the experiences of part time, mature and widening participation learners throughout their higher education journey, from first contact through to post-graduation.

New Project: Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET

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The aims of this project funded under the aegis of an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account are to:

  • Support further work to review and enhance a template to map the engagement of universities with their cities and regions for use in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Hong Kong, Italy and the UK
  • Adapt a revised benchmarking tool to create an online version; and
  • Promote its use nationally and in an international context.

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New Project: Exchanging knowledge with policymakers and marginalised youth about skill training in India

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In recent years, both India and Scotland have made an extensive investment in skill training and education to reduce the unemployment of marginalised youth and enabling their social and occupational mobility (ILO, 2011, 2016). This knowledge exchange project funded through an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, comprising of a workshop (India) and a seminar (Glasgow), offers an important and timely opportunity for policy makers, practitioners, and academics from India and Scotland to share experiences, develop understandings, and participate in dialogue to provide evidence for the policies and infrastructures that need to be developed and implemented to facilitate the positive engagement of young people in skill training programmes.

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