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Making Higher Education Relevant: Opportunities in the Draft New Education Policy of India

The draft National Education Policy (NEP) of India (featured below) has many important suggestions to make higher education more purposive towards enabling India to achieve its constitutional vision and future aspirations. On the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, for Dr Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Co-Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, the draft NEP must be informed by Gandhi’s vision for higher education in India.

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Thursday, 1 August, 2019

UIL Lifelong Learning Alert No 11 - 31 July 2019

What is happening around lifelong learning these days? How are countries making lifelong learning a reality? What are the latest developments in policy and practice? This is issue No 11, 31 July 2019, of the UIL Lifelong Learning Alert.

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Wednesday, 31 July, 2019

#ALW2019 – What are you waiting for? – Register your events early to win

Adult Learners’ Week is celebrated at the beginning of Spring with hundreds of events and activities promoting the benefits of learning. There are so many opportunities to learn available across Australia.

Adult Learners’ Week is a UNESCO initiative supported in Australia by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training and coordinated by Adult Learning Australia. Adult Learners’ Week runs from 1–8 September and incorporates International Literacy Day, which is celebrated annually on September 8.

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Thursday, 4 July, 2019

ALADIN Online Alert 27

The ALADIN Online Alert is a joint ALADIN initiative, produced bimonthly by the UIL Library and CDÉACF, with input from additional ALADIN members from all over the world. Its goal is to share recent online and full-text information and documents in the area of adult and lifelong learning.

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Monday, 1 July, 2019

Ripples - Winter 2019 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

Please find featured below and attached the Winter 2019 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):

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Saturday, 29 June, 2019

BALID - Bilingual Literacy for Life, 4 July 2019

After a fascinating seminar about The Philippines last Monday - ‘Taking hold’ and ‘losing grip’ of bureaucratic literacies: Insights from local volunteering in the Philippines - our BALID Informal Literacy Discussions (ILDs) programme moves to Mexico, when Lorena Sanchez Tyson of UCL Institute of Education leads a discussion on Bilingual Literacy for Life: an indigenous language literacy programme in Mexico.

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Friday, 28 June, 2019

British Council and the University of Glasgow join forces to provide training in Leadership Development in Ukraine - learning city spin-offs

The British Council has recently made an award to Donetsk State University of Management in the Ukraine to progress the field of leadership development. A Certificate has been awarded as part of a training programme which included a week-long visit to University of Glasgow from the Rector and Vice Rector of the university and three other staff. The visit to Glasgow provided an opportunity to learn from the experience of staff at Glasgow University and included lectures, workshops and visits within the School of Education. A cultural programme was also organised in the city.

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Tuesday, 25 June, 2019

Role of Universities in Envisioning Participatory Smart Cities in the Global South - 28 and 29 May, 2019

CR&DALL was delighted to co-host a joint seminar and workshop at the School of Education in the University of Glasgow on May 28th and the 29th funded by the Scottish Funding Council from its contribution to the University of Glasgow’s efforts to develop activities concerned with the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The two events were organised as part of the project The role of universities in developing skills for Smart Cities, led by Dr Srabani Maitra (School of Education), Professor Mike Osborne (School of Education), Professor Muhammad Imran (School of Engineering) and Dr Seth Agbo (University of Lakehead, Canada).

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Friday, 21 June, 2019

Author(s): 

Peter Kearns
Denise Reghenzani

Working Paper: 

WP501/2019

ISSN: 

2397-057X

EcCoWell was developed by the PASCAL International Observatory in 2012 (PIE), based on the experience of Taipei city, as an approach to developing learning cities in a holistic and cohesive manner. The emergence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with a similar requirement for holistic development has enhanced the significance of the EcCoWell experience.

This paper examines the relevance of EcCoWell to implementing the SDGs in cities and smaller communities, and traces how the EcCoWell concept has evolved in this context of learning city development. The learning city concept is inevitably caught up in the debate about humanistic responses to the challenge of rampart digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, such that sustainability takes on further meaning in this context.

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Citation: 

Kearns, P. & Reghenzani-Kearns, D. (2019) Building Good Sustainable Communities through the Learning City EcCoWell Approach. CR&DALL Working Paper. CR&DALL WP501/2019, CR&DALL, Glasgow (UK).

Keywords: 

learning cities, sustainability, lifelong learning, EcCoWell, SDGs, entrepreneurship

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Friday, 14 June, 2019

SUEUAA team shares insights with City of Harare officials

In advance of the SUEUAA conference hosted by the University of Zimbabwe which took place 9-10 May, the team involved in the research were delighted to explore their findings with Eng. Hosiah Chisango, Town Clerk of the City of Harare.

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Friday, 17 May, 2019

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