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On Thursday, 19th October 2023, Swansea University hosted a Leverhulme Lecture titled “Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities”. The lecture was presented by Nematollah Azizi, a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow and a faculty member at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. This visit was organized by Swansea University, along the International PASCAL Observatory collaboration, where Swansea Learning City and Swansea University are active members and were happy to host Professor Azizi as their guest from their partner University of Glasgow.  The lecture by Professor Azizi aimed to explore the role of Islamic pedagogical capabilities in creating and maintaining justice-oriented learning cities.

Tudásmenedzsment (Knowledge Management) is a peer-reviewed journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary. Tudásmenedzsment is published twice a year in Hungarian language. The journal publishes an English-German language special issue once a year.

The first ever Seminar in Global Adult Education by the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education of the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education was successfully held on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 November, 2023.  There were presentations from Canada, Italy, Kenya, Palestine and Spain/Catalonia.

The International Journal of Lifelong Education is currently recruiting for a Book Review Editor Role. This role is a great opportunity for an academic with a strong research background in the lifelong education and learning of adults and who also has the commitment, drive and ability to help develop the journal.

Former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the university, Professor J.E. (Teddy) Thomas, passed away aged 89 on Tuesday 11 July 2023. A major figure in adult education nationally and internationally, he served as Reader and later Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, as well as Deputy Head and Head of the Department of Adult Education.

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