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SCUTREA's November News

Please see below for three pieces of information SCUTREA Council hopes you might be interested in:

1. Call for Expressions of Interest to the Special Issue 'Advancing Theory and Research in Widening Participation' to be published in Studies in Continuing Education.

Organised by Nalita James and Ellen Boeren, this call seeks expressions of interest in papers contributing to the following topics:

New English Newsletter from Céreq

As a professional researcher or expert on Vocational Education and Training, you might be interested in our new English newsletter which reports on Céreq ongoing studies and recent publications.

CR&DALL Themes:

Adult, Vocational and Community-based Learning

Catherine Lido presented at OEPS Forum on Thursday 5th November 2015

The poster featured below summarises research from the integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project, which will form the first data product of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). Catherine Lido presented this at the OEPS Forum on Thursday 5th November 2015. She also presented preliminary work conducted with Mike Osborne in the area of older adult learning engagement in and around the City of Glasgow.

Higher Education Reform: Looking Back - Looking Forward

Starting in 2003, there has been a series of annual international Higher Education Reform (HER) workshops the twelfth of which has been held in October 2015 in Tianjin, China. The particular themes of these workshops vary yet always concern policy reforms and other major changes in Higher Education.

Social inequalities in education: why and how national institutional factors matter

The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) presents Social inequalities in education: why and how national institutional factors matter. This AQMeN event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and brings international comparative research to the debate around widening access to higher education.