The AEPR e-Bulletin (Adult Education for Poverty Reduction) is published bi-monthly by The Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CRADALL) which is located within the Department of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) at the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow.

CRADALL's focus is on social purpose and community based learning with a view to making a real difference concerning the role that adult education and lifelong learning can make to social justice, social inclusion and poverty reduction - a role that has received relatively limited recognition up to now.

For more information on CRADALL please visit:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/cradall/index.shtml

Past editions of the bulletin are available from the web site at:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/cradall/pr_AEPReBulletin.shtml

To mark the city’s success in securing the Commonwealth Games, the University of Glasgow is to launch scholarship programme aimed at helping students from developing countries.

The Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme will give 53 students – one for each country of the Commonwealth – the opportunity to study at the University.

We want to share with you recent activities at the O'Connor Center and current plans for the next two months. The Center is a regional studies and public policy program at The University of Montana located in the heart of the Rockies. The Rocky Mountain West is a region full of change and rich in history.

To view the Newsletter please visit:  http://www.crmw.org/Newsletter/FebruaryMarch2008.htm

Dear Friends,

As a member of the World Social Forum International Council (WSF-IC), the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) participates in the WSF Global Day of Action (26th January 2008) by encouraging and inviting all member organizations, campaigns, social movements and NGOs working in the field of education to partake in a global call for action in favour of the right to education for all. This call for action demands from governments and policymakers across the world for renewed commitments and efforts toward the fulfilment of the right to education for all as a universal human right. It comes at a most opportune time where the world over commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008.

In this light, we therefore invite you to widely distribute and circulate the call for action enclosed in this mail -- encouraging your networks to send it on the 26^th of January 2008 -- to local and national authorities and policy makers; various bodies in the United Nations (UN); and international development agencies and cooperation to remind them that this right has yet to be fulfilled.

For further information and inquiries, please contact ICAE at: icae.anjani@gmail.com or secretariat@icae.org.uy.

In Solidarity,

Paul Balanger, ICAE President

Celita Eccher, ICAE Secretary-General

To view the ICAE website please visit:  www.icae.org.uy

To view the call for action letters please see attachements below.

This is the December FACE (Forum for Access and Continuing Education) e-bulletin, offered to policy-makers, researchers, practitioners and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning.

This is the final issue of CITYNET's e-News for the year 2007. The issue highlights the happenings and outcomes of the CITYNET events in Makati - the 23rd Session of the Executive Committee, the International Seminar on Sanitation, and KLRTC XII.  In addition, there are regular features covering urban news and events from around the world. The November-December 2007 issue can be downloaded at: http://www.citynet-ap.org/En/user/enews/docs/981.doc

The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Raploch Youth is a project that aims to use an innovative methodology called ‘El Sistema’ to teach classical music to children from very early ages. The project has been going on for more than 30 years in Venezuela. This fantastic orchestra is indeed the flagship of an education system which gives 250,000 young people the chance to learn an instrument, getting them away from drugs, guns and crime in the shanty towns. The talented musicians of the National System of Venezuelan Youth and Children's Orchestras are a source of national pride, like football stars in other Latin American countries.

Sir Simon Rattle, director of the Berlin Philharmonic, said that the country's youth orchestras in Venezuela were doing the most important work in classical music anywhere in the world. Now Scotland is taking the lead, establishing a similar system in Raploch, Stirling. The project will start in 2008 and it promises to provide a groundbreaking programme of social inclusion.

Much progress has been made in the Peoples-uni.org and here are some highlights.

The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often - undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. CSEW develops research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work. 

You may read previous announcements here:  http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/csew/

Visit the website at:  http://www.learningwork.ca/

Work and Lifelong Learning Research Project (WALL):  http://www.wallnetwork.ca/

Learning and Work Blog:  http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/

If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to

mailto:rsussman@oise.utoronto.ca

Since the OPEN DAYS were first introduced in 2003, they have proven to be a unique platform in Europe for communication, discussion and networking among regions and players in the field of regional and cohesion policy. In 2007, the 212 participating regions and cities will strive to show how effective this policy is and to highlight its key role within the Lisbon Agenda. The title of the fifth OPEN DAYS event reflects this ambitious challenge: ‘Making it happen’. Let’s make sure that the regions and cities reach their targets for growth and job creation – the yardsticks for prosperity and quality of life in our Member States.