CR&DALL Core members, Muir Houston and Catherine Lido together with Professor Keith Kintrea of Urban Studies have been successful in securing funding from Skills Development Scotland and the SGSSS-Doctoral Training Programme (DTP), for a co-funded postgraduate 'industry strategy’ studentship under the aegis of National Productivity Investment Fund.
Congratulations to Professor Michael Osborne and Dr Katarzyna Borkowska of the School of Education, University of Glasgow, on having "A European lens upon adult and lifelong learning in Asia" published in Asia Pacific Education Review. As part of the Springer Nature SharedIt initiative, a full-text version of this paper is now publicly shareable through the link below.
In this week's news, check out the implications of recent Federal and state budgets for refugees, mature aged workers and apprentices, celebrations of Neighbourhood House Week and international news on the British Labour Party's commitment to lifelong learning and adult education. We've also included updates on our not-to-be-missed national conference on the transformative power of lifelong learning which coincides with MONA's winter festival Dark Mofo.
I'm pleased to let you know a UALL Member, Middlesex University, the Institute for Work Based Learning, has been chosen by the European Commission as one of the top 50 good practice case studies throughout Europe and beyond. Please see featured below the report from Middlesex.
Middlesex University are pleased and proud of this achievement as one of only two universities in the UK to have received this honour.
The speaker will address ways in which educational policies in Brazil have identified (in)equality as a problem related to higher education. She will specially focus on the National Plan for Education (PNE, 2014-2024), issued by the Ministry of Education, discussing the role assigned to higher education as related to lifelong learning in equity-oriented approaches, as gleaned from those policies.
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