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Three publications from the THEMP project - Tertiary Lifelong Learning in Mid-Life

Three recent publications from the THEMP project are available below:

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Friday, 15 November, 2013

CR&DALL Director at 2013 Global HR Forum in Seoul

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Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL, presented at the 2013 Global HR Forum in Seoul in the strand entitled Lifelong Learning in the Centennial Era - For the Happy Third Age alongside Ian Baptiste Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, St. George's University, Grenada, and discussants, Professor Heesu Lee, Dean, Graduate School of Global HR Development, Chung-Ang University and Professor Zunsang Han Professor, College of Sciences in Education, Yonsei University in a session sponsored by the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Learning (NILE). He was pleased to also be invited to a special session with young entrepreneurs.

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New publications of interest

HEPI Report (62): The impact on demand of the Government's reforms of higher education The first evidence on part-time demand and an update on full-time John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia (PDF)

PTES 2013: Findings from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PDF)

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Wednesday, 30 October, 2013

World Access Congress Follow up

On behalf of the EAN, I would like to express a huge appreciation of everyone who took part in the first ever World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education in Montreal last week. We hope your participation in the congress was successful and that it led to many new contacts, exciting project ideas and partnerships.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

Glasgow: A City of the Future - the EcCoWell Approach for 2020

Despite demanding weather and travel conditions in Scotland, we were delighted to have been able to run the second EcCoWell conference successfully in Glasgow on 5 December.

A full report, all presentations and some videos of the event will be published in due course. See below for attachments of those we have received to date.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

RPL: Supporting Transitions - SCQF Partnership RPL Network in Scotland

The SCQF Partnership Network's Recognition of Prior Learning Annual Conference will be taking place on Tuesday 19 November 2013 at the newly opened 200 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. The event is only a few weeks away, this is why you should be there. 

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Tuesday, 8 October, 2013

European Commission launches 'Opening up Education' to boost innovation and digital skills in schools and universities

More than 60% of nine year olds in the EU are in schools which are still not digitally equipped. The European Commission today unveils 'Opening up Education', an action plan to tackle this and other digital problems which are hampering schools and universities from delivering high quality education and the digital skills which 90% of jobs will require by 2020.

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Sunday, 29 September, 2013

Recruiting mature students to Higher Education: Who, why and how? UALL Conference

In the last two years there has been a 40% decrease in the number of mature students participating in university study. This has serious implications for widening participation - and for the economy.  Social groups under-represented in higher education often choose to take up their studies later in life rather than at 18 so it is important that the HE sector continues to provide that opportunity.

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Wednesday, 18 September, 2013

Joint University of Edinburgh/LSE afternoon seminar

 

"Educational attainment and inequality in Scotland:
How does Scotland compare with the rest of the UK?"

Date: Wednesday 28th August 2013

Venue:  G.21 Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

 

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

SHRE Research Awards 2013

See attached flyer for details and contact information

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

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