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The making of the 'precariat': unemployment, insecurity and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions

'The making of the 'precariat': unemployment, insecurity and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions', is one of our current projects led by Professor Andy Furlong.

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Friday, 6 December, 2013

Cathy Fagan speaks at Child and Youth Finance International in Frankfurt

Cathy Fagan was recently a speaker at the European and Central Asia regional meeting of Child and Youth Finance International held in and hosted by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. 

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Friday, 6 December, 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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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

OCED Survey of Adult Skills

The low-skilled are more likely than others to be unemployed, have bad health and earn much less, according to the first OECD Survey of Adult Skills. Countries with greater inequality in skills proficiency also have higher income inequality.

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Tuesday, 8 October, 2013

Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited

Tom Nesbit and Michael Welton have recently edited the book, "Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited", in which various international scholars critically assess how far the visionary statements of the Hamburg Declaration have been advanced and implemented. They review the recent development of the 10 themes of the Agenda for the Future, explore their local and global achievements through considering the results of the 2009 CONFINTEA VI conference and other related policy developments, and outline what is still necessary to realize the Declaration’s goals.

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Thursday, 3 October, 2013

Reflections on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Speaker: May East, CEO CIFAL Scotland, UNITAR Associated Training Centre

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Wednesday, 2 October, 2013

AQMeN Applied Quantitative Methods Network

Devolution and geographies of education: the use of the Millennium Cohort Study for 'home international' comparisons across the UK

This seminar will be presented by Professor Chris Taylor, Cardiff University

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Tuesday, 24 September, 2013

New book launched: The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism

This week sees the publication of The Red Paper on Scotland 2014: Class, Nation and Socialism and follows on from two previous Red Papers (1975 The Red Paper on Scotland; 2006 The Red Paper 30 years on).

This has already gained some advanced publicity in the Glasgow Herald

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Tuesday, 10 September, 2013

CR&DALL Seminar 2013 Series: "Croatia and EU Membership" a joint seminar with the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies !!NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!!

A seminar presented by His Excellency Professor Ivan Grdešić, the Republic of Croatia's ambassador to the UK.

MONDAY 16th of SEPTEMBER, 2013 at 14.30 in Seminar Room 1 (Sir Hugh Fraser), Wolfson Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow. See the attached flyer for full details.

Given the high turnout anticipated, we must stress that intending participants MUST reserve a place by e-mailing [email protected]

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Monday, 5 August, 2013

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