I am pleased to attach the programme for this Seminar to be held at Imperial College London on Friday, 14 October 2016.
Microsoft is giving students a new tool that may make the coming academic year a little easier.
The company just introduced a new feature for Word that could make writing research papers a little less painful. Called Researcher, it helps you find and cite sources without ever leaving Word.
Centres for Third Age Education (CTAE) is a project which is supporting the development of human capital to promote social inclusion of older people in Azerbaijan, Russia and the Ukraine through formal and informal learning. The aim is to encourage older people to participate more fully in society.
Upskilling, re-skiling and employing refugees is a one day experts’ forum which is co-organised by Cedefop and OECD and will take place on Monday, 3 October 2016 in Rome. The forum will examine the role of VET and VET-related skill development strategies as part of pre-arrival (transition countries) and national solutions (host countries) aimed at early labour market integration of the current wave of adult people in clear need of international protection.
The leaders of the five strands of the PASCAL Glasgow Conference monitored the developments at the Conference in their strand. Dr Judith Jenson, the leader of the Inclusion strand has written the attached overview of the Inclusion strand. This strand attracted considerable attention at the conference and confirmed that much remains to be done in combating exclusion and achieving a situation where learning cities are inclusive of all residents in the city.
This year’s theme for the eucen Autumn Seminar will focus on digitalisation in university continuing education, understood as the increased use of new media in the context of lifelong learning. The Seminar will tackle the main challenges of the process of digitalisation of University Continuing Education programmes, exchange methods and practices on this process and feed our practice via research perspectives and results.
Learning in later life is a relatively new and exciting field of research, and becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The two nations hosting the European exchange, (Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa), have only relatively recently begun to acknowledge, celebrate and learn from their rich, diverse and vibrant Indigenous and European ways of being and knowing after centuries of veryrecent and often painful colonisation.
The Goodison Group in Scotland (GGiS) together with their strategic partner, Scotland’s Futures Forum, were delighted to invite Prof. Michael Osborne, Director of Research and Chair of Adult and Lifelong Learning at Glasgow University and Toni Andrews, Co - Designer at Young Scot, to stimulate the first GGiS debate of the year. Held at the Scottish Parliament, this debate was the first in a series planned to explore Scotland’s aspiration to be a civilised, cultural society by 2030 - including the role of learning and education.
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is currently seeking three Programme Coordinators and is currently also seeking a Head of Publications.
Does "Education for All", mean all? What are the barriers to participating in education? How do you include “all” in the classroom? These are just some of the questions that over 8500 enthusiastic and dedicated people discussed during two successful runs of The Right to Education Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed by the inclusive education team at the University of Glasgow.
During a ceremony held Tuesday, July 5, 2016 the Cassini Hall (Prime Minister's Services), Clotilde Valter, Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Learning, presented the insignia of the Legion of Honour to Yves Attou, Chairman and Founder of the World Committee for learning throughout life (CMA). The evening was hosted by Françoise Dax-Boyer, Co-founder of CMA.
In 2015, Cedefop asked its ReferNet partners from the EU Member States, Iceland and Norway to prepare thematic articles on the professional development of VET teachers and trainers in their countries. The wealth of information in these articles was used to prepare this briefing note and will contribute to mutual learning and dissemination of best practices:
Welcome to the July 2016 issue of the Scholarship Project newsletter including latest news and updates - aiming to support the development and embedding of a distinct scholarly ethos in the college HE sector.
The concept of intersectionality emerged in the 1980s and has its origins in feminist theory and anti-racist theory and has since gained in popularity. The term was first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989). For black feminists such as Crenshaw feminism and feminist theory did not relate to the experiences of black women as it reflected only the lives of white women.
The OECD's Education Policy Committee launched new work to help countries enhance the performance of their higher education systems. This work will strengthen the comparative evidence base on higher education, enabling the analysis of higher education system performance and the identification of effective strategies to enhance performance.
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