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Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network Successes

We are pleased to report that CR&DALL core members, Mia Perry and Bonnie Slade, within the School of Education has been successful in an ESRC-funded Global Challenges Research Fund network bids. The project will be led by Mia Perry as PI with Bonnie Slade as one of the Co-Is.

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellowships and Leadership Fellowships

Fully funded Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellowships for 3 years at the University of Glasgow offer great opportunities for good researchers all around the world. Within the college where CR&DALL is hosted we are offering 5 scholarships in the following areas:

Submissions to The Journal of Economic Development in Higher Education

Dr Brian Richard, a Senior Research Associate of the Center for Governmental Studies at NIU, is currently editor of The Journal of Economic Development in Higher Education, an online, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of university-led economic development.

Adult literacy, numeracy, pop up learning — ACE News, 28 November 2016

This week's news round up is chock full of interesting stories. How we score in comparisons of adult numeracy, pubs as places for pop up learning, adult and community education, social inclusion and domestic violence as well as the latest VET news.

The Future of School - a DIF video talk

In collaboration with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Liza Ireland, of Royal Roads University, British Columbia and PASCAL North America Associate Director, presents how we can redesign schools in the 21^st Century using ecological principles of sustainable living systems in a 2016 DIF (Disruptive Innovation Festival) talk entitled The Future of School, featured below.