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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Critical Studies in Education (CSE) - Call for Papers

Critical Studies in Education is one of the few international journals solely devoted to a critical sociology of education. Two questions frame the journal’s critical approach to research: (1) whose interests are served by current social arrangements in education and, (2) from the standpoint of the least advantaged, what can be done about inequitable arrangements? Informed by this approach, articles published in the journal draw on post-structural, feminist, postcolonial and other critical orientations to critique education systems and to identify alternatives for education policy, practice and research.

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowships

The College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow is seeking exceptional candidates for its fully-funded Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowships.

There are up to 6 College of Social Sciences positions available for highly qualified postdoctoral researchers with normally at least 1-2 years’ experience at postdoctoral level.

The Fellowships will be for 3 years in the first instance and appointment will be made at Research Fellow Grade 7 or 8 depending on qualifications, skills and experience.

Call for papers - EUCN New Zealand Conference 2012

Announcing a call for papers for the Annual New Zealand EU Centres Network Conference to be held at Massey University, Palmerston North, 13th–14th December, 2012.

The 1st January 2013 will mark both the 40th anniversary of the 1st European enlargement and the 20th anniversary of the Single European Market. Europe itself has changed dramatically in this time. These changes have also impacted on how the rest of the world interacts with Europe and the relationships Europe has beyond its borders. This multi-disciplinary conference will use a number of key themes to investigate this phenomenon:

Australia and Europe in Conversation – 50 years of EU-Australia relations - Missed the conversation? Listen to the broadcast!

Yesterday the fourth in the series "Australia and Europe in Conversation" took place at the EU Centre at RMIT in Melbourne.

H.E. Mr Sven-Olof Petersson, Ambassador of Sweden to Australia, H.E. Mr Patrick Renault, Ambassador for Belgium to Australia, and Dr Bruno Mascitelli, President of the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia; Swinburne University, together discussed ‘ The EU as a regional institution and democracy? The place of smaller member states' . Mr Paul Barclay from ABC's Radio National moderated the discussion.

The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning seminar in Hamburg, 25 May 2012

'The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning' was the topic of a seminar in the framework of the 60th Anniversary of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany on 25 May 2012. PASCAL was delighted that its co-director, Professor Michael Osborne, was invited to be one of the speakers.

On the previous day there was a public lecture programme, which included a contribution from the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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