TEC de Monterrey has appointed new leaders for the PASCAL Centre. In a recent communication from Dean Alejandro Poiré, campus-wide dean for social science, to PASCAL Chair Josef Konvitz, Dean Poiré announced the appointment of Professor Ana Lucia Hill Mayoral as Director, together with Dean Paula Campos Villaseñor as the PASCAL team.

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The University of Glasgow is delighted to announce two funded PhD studentships have been awarded.  Preeti Dagar, currently an International Masters in Adult Educaiton for Social Change (AESC) second year student has been awarded a 3-year studentship by the university with the ESRC GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities. She will be supervised by Mike Osborne.

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The International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK) is working together with the Just Group to deliver the Innovating for Ageing competition, which is seeking to find solutions to the problems facing vulnerable older consumers.

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This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

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During the past decade, the circumstances of ‘regional’ Australia have become much more explicit in Australian public policy. While issues of drought or flood have often drawn attention to the exigencies of farmers and or rural economies, it has been recognition of widespread structural differences which has prompted the recent attention.

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As the clock ticks down towards the date on which the United Kingdom (UK) is due to leave the European Union (EU), many details continue to be unclear. It has been only in the last month that the UK Government has been able to present its White Paper setting out its preferred option for Brexit.

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The Faith-based Learning City Development Network will be hosting a number of gatherings in the next few months to continue the conversation we began in 2016. Co-chair Dr. Maria Liu Wong and LCN Director Dr. Rob Mark will be at the PASCAL Suwon conference in late August 2018 and coordinate a gathering for prospective network members in attendance at the conference. Details are forthcoming.

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I’m delighted to report following my attendance and keynote presentation at the conference “Education for Values: Continuity and Context” in Moldova on April 27-28, 2018, PASCAL has been able to re-inforce its co-operation with DVV whose offices in Eastern Europe were represented strongly. This week I met Oleg Smirnov, Director, Representative office DVV International in Ukraine to discuss further co-operation during his visit to Scotland.

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Here is the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) Newsletter January - June 2018:

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Here is the latest Cedefop newsletter:

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