Widening Access to Education

Knowledge Exchange Associate - SDGs in Urban Settings, CoSS

A new post as a Knowledge Exchange Associate, working within the College of Social Sciences (CoSS) Research Support Office at the University of Glasgow is now available. The post holder will be responsible for the identification, development and implementation of new collaborative Knowledge Exchange (KE) opportunities for the Inequalities and Sustainable Development in Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) Cities research group, under the supervision of Professors Sayantan Ghosal, Michael Osborne, Fabrice Renaud and Alastair Leyland.

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Wednesday, 25 March, 2020

The ‘Equality Project: Starting from Home’ is now at the stage of finalising workshops on addressing household inequalities

The second partner meeting for the Equality Project: Starting from Home (TEP) was hosted by the University of Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania) and Dr Amina Kamando between 6th and 11th January 2020.

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Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Everybody should become a tutor in the community: CR&DALL Seminar, 29th January 2020 - Tiina Tambaum

In the twenty-first century non-professional tutors, including teenagers, have an important role to play in the development of contemporary skills among the older population.  The aim of the seminar is to describe the instructional design for teenage tutors' instruction in order to prepare them to become a facilitator for older persons’ in e-skill learning.

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Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

UALL Annual Conference 2020 | Second Call for Submissions

The University Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) UK is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Conference 2020, hosted by the University of Liverpool. The theme of the Conference is Diversity, identity and inclusion in Lifelong Learning: Shaping a 2020 vision for mature students.

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Thursday, 9 January, 2020

The Horizon 2020 project ENLIVEN has come to an end

The Horizon 2020 project ENLIVEN – Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe – has come to an end. The project – worth EUR 2.5 million – brought together partners from nine European countries and included a self-funded partner from Australia.

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Tuesday, 10 December, 2019

The 7th Edition of the L4WB Magazine is live!

The Learning for Well-being Magazine is published online twice a year (Spring & Autumn) and the articles are free to download.

Each issue explores a theme of interest for all those who wish to expand their perspectives on creating and encouraging inclusive and supportive societies, cultivating capacities and environments that place well-being at the centre of all our endeavours. The themes are explored from multiple perspectives by inviting contributors who work (and learn) in different fields, professions, disciplines and countries.

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Thursday, 5 December, 2019

Experiences of Adult Education in Britain since 1919 - 14 March 2020, Oxford

A one-day workshop to be held at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, on Saturday 14th March 2020.

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Wednesday, 27 November, 2019

Call for papers: Non-Traditional Students in Tertiary Education - Studia Paedagogica 25:4, 2020

The theme of the forthcoming issue of Studia paedagogica is Non-Traditional Students in Tertiary Education[1]. The number of students not reflecting the ‘standard’ profile of students in tertiary education has been steadily increasing in many countries. Often referred to as ‘non-traditional’ students, for purposes of international comparison, Schuetze and Slowey (2002) identify three distinguishing criteria: educational biography, mode of study and entry routes.

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Friday, 22 November, 2019

Adult education back on agenda for election?

After a period when adult education could be seen as the poor relation in the education system[i] the election has offered some hope of a revival if looking at the three main UK parties ‘pledges’.

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Tuesday, 19 November, 2019

FACE e-Bulletin | November 2019

This is the monthly e-Bulletin from FACE (the Forum for Access and Continuing Education), offered to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning. In this month's issue PASCAL Director and FACE Executive Member Michael Osborne provides an update on the highly impactful work he and others are doing on Learning Cities.

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Tuesday, 5 November, 2019

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