Today, 18 June 2024, CORE-NbS was launched, bringing together 14 universities in Africa and Europe through a partnership between the African Research Universities Alliance and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. CRADALL is represented in the cluster by Simon McGrath, who will be focusing particularly on researcher development and education/skills for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Glasgow is also represented through the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability.

The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP), in cooperation with Springer’s International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, launches a new series of webinars to present cutting-edge research on lifelong learning to an interested audience. In a compact format, individual research findings and critical reflections on burning issues, such as the ecology of lifelong-lifewide learning for sustainable generative futures or learning for climate justice will be presented and discussed in the focus of social/political and the economic.

The University of Catania will be hosting a conference of the Italian University Network for Continuing Education on 10/11 May 2024, and is pleased to announce that amongst the keynote speakers will be Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL. His presentation is entitled, The many souls of university continuing education in the UK.

There are currently exceptional pressures on local authority budgets in the UK, and it can seem almost inevitable that adult and lifelong learning provision is likely to suffer. At the same time, post-compulsory education rarely gets much attention in the UK press, and within that broad category adult and lifelong learning probably gets the least. There may thus be a risk that adult education and lifelong learning in the UK might pass away quietly, without anybody much noticing.