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12th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform

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The School of Education, Tianjin Normal University, with strong support from the Higher Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), the Chinese Council for the Study of Higher Education (CCSHE), and the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training of the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, Canada, is pleased to announce that it will host the 12th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform (HER), October 21-23, 2015.

Financial Literacy at the Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference 2015

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On the 15th of April, 2015, at the annual Scottish Economics Society (held in Perth, Scotland), Professor Robert Wright (University of Strathclyde) and Urban Big Data Centre researcher Dr Catherine Lido (University of Glasgow) presented a paper series, including the work of UBDC Co-I Professor Mike Osborne (University of Glasgow) and Dr Georgios Panos (University of Glasgow), regarding financial literacy.

A second visit to Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

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For the second year running I had the pleasure of attending the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. Because of a previous appointment, I had missed the UNESCO Growing Learning in Cork event and had only the Thursday and the Friday to enjoy the proceedings, being picked up at the airport on a wet and miserable Wednesday night by Willie McAuliffe (Chair of the Festival Organising Committee) after a 14 hour journey.

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