Please find attached the second ESREA newsletter for 2014. The end of the semester is coming but it is a hectic time in ESREA since three out of eleven networks have their research conferences this month. I have seen the programmes and it seems like there will be a lot of interesting discussions concerning policy, global and local issues in adult learning and development as well as transformative learning.
At a high-level dinner, organised by weekly newspaper European Voice in Brussels this week, Cedefop Director James Calleja said that ‘educational reform must have relatively the same speed as developments in the labour market’ to make it easier for young people to move from education to employment.
We are pleased to announce a new collaborative project involving EU partners and a number of Russian universities, to support higher education modernisation in Russia, and the development of HEIs as lifelong learning centres. The project is being led at the University of Bologna, and at the University of Glasgow, the Principal Investigator is Dr Stephen McKinney, Head of the Research and Teaching Group in Creativity, Culture and Faith.
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market.
Professor Mike Osborne, Director of CR&DALL and Co-Director of PASCAL, visited the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Toowoomba, Australia on 13 May. During his visit he spoke to university staff and community representatives about the GUNi Report Higher Education in the World Report 5: Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change and took the opportunity to launch this report in Australia.
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