Please find attached the 7^th Briefing Paper in the EcCoWell 2 series, by Tom Schuller, Idowu Biao, and Mike Osborne, entitled, Rethinking Lifelong Learning within Current Contexts of Time and Space. The objective of this piece is to open up some fresh lines of thinking about lifelong learning by looking in a very broad way at the dimensions of time and place, in a global context.

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Inviting you to the Webinar The Future of Sustainability: The Head, The Heart and the Hand of Sustainability.

October 3, 2020 Saturday at 5 in the afternoon Manila time (11am CEST). Please register in advance to receive the Zoom link and password. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkfu6urDMrEtRm7M2qLL2OUlzSKNUXHCZ8

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Hosted by Access, Participation, and Success at the Open University, the webinar will be opened by Vice-Chancellor Professor Tim Blackman, who will reflect on how the Open University is working to address and reduce inequitable outcomes for BAME students. As well as presentations from 4 Higher Education Institutions, sharing experiences of their work, there will be an opportunity to share views and experiences in interactive sessions on MS Teams. 

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‘Only connect’. Never was this injunction more fitting than today. I scan the material in this issue and realise how much each is part of an interwoven web. As Chris Brooks observes below, we see ‘how poorly policies are tied up into a coherent strategy: housing, education, skills and infrastructure are all conceived and implemented as separate and non-connected policies. If only one could find a clear beginning and untangle strands into a neat and orderly ball.  But there are too many ends and no free ends at all.

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An opportunity that has arisen for an external examiner at the University of Edinburgh. Interested candidates should send a current CV and a brief paragraph highlighting their applicable experience to Jenny Hoy.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused unprecedented global crises for the migrant workers and their families. Various degrees of lockdown has affected the national and global economy, particularly the informal economy across countries and regions.

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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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Attached is the Agenda and details below for our flagship event for the Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival – the Learning in a Changing Business World Seminar. The Eventbrite link to register is below. We hope you can make it and all in Limerick are looking forward to this webinar and to the whole festival next week.

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Due to unforeseen reasons, we regret to inform you that the GNLC/PASCAL Webinar on the challenge of community-based participatory research & learning cities, will have to be rescheduled to another date

We apologise for this change in arrangements, which is unavoidable. We will contact you again once a new date has been identified for the event.

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Learning transitions can be disruptive and unsettling to any young person. Children aged between 12-25 years old are particularly vulnerable, given how this period can impact on increased risks of anxiety, depressive disorders, and mental illnesses later in life.

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