There is increasing recognition of significant factors in the lifelong education of men, through school, working age and in retirement. A new book, published by NIACE,  aims to be the definitive study of this worldwide problem, and to 'increase men’s participation and promote practices that will contribute to men’s learning and wellbeing, particularly in contexts and life stages for men beyond paid work.'  One of the authors of Men Learning through Life is  UALL Vice Chair Rob Mark, and the book will be launched on the 9th April at the UALL Annual Conference.

The 2014 UALL Awards adjudication is now complete. The winner and runners-up will be announced at the Conference Dinner on 10 April. Each year UALL members compete for the Award, which is for innovative and creative programmes in lifelong learning. The Awards aim to showcase enterprising initiatives even in tough financial times, and each year we have a strong field of candidates, making the adjudication both difficult and exciting as we judge projects which are creative, enterprising and sustainable. The winner takes home an elegant trophy, and the runners-up certificates to display in their home institutions.  Entries for 2015 will be invited in the summer. Meanwhile, registration for the Annual Conference in London, April 9-11, is open  - for details click here

Par Anne Leroux. Lorsqu’en 1965, Gordon Moore postule que la puissance des microprocesseurs va suivre une courbe rapide et exponentielle, il met aussi à jour un phénomène plus global : le cycle d’évolution des technologies est bien plus rapide que celui d’une carrière professionnelle. Charge à la formation continue de combler cette distance…
Le constat est devenu banal : les technologies évoluent à grande vitesse depuis un peu plus d’un demi-siècle, durant lequel informatique et électronique ont connu des progrès fulgurants qui ont impacté la plupart (pour ne pas dire tous) des secteurs d’activités.  Un ingénieur ou un technicien en télécommunications âgé de 45 ans aujourd’hui qui a débuté sa carrière au cours des années 80 a été formé aux technologies filaires, et n’a sans doute durant son cursus pas vu le moindre smartphone. Et il connaîtra encore dans sa vie professionnelle une vingtaine d’années d’innovations.
Ce n’est qu’un exemple parmi beaucoup : informatique, réseaux, efficacité énergétique, mobilité, automatisation… Ingénieurs et techniciens vivent au quotidien des mutations qui transforment leurs métiers. Ce qui pose, pour eux et pour leur employeur, chargé selon le Code du Travailde veiller « au maintien de leur capacité à occuper un emploi, au regard notamment de l’évolution des emplois, des technologies et des organisations », la question du niveau de leur formation continue. Suite...

In December 2013 EUCIS-LLL held in the European Parliament its Lifelong Learning Week, gathering various educational stakeholders around key moments of reflection of the European agenda in education and training. One of them was the roundtable “Making the case for European civic education” on 4 December, jointly organised with the European Civic Forum. More than ever we need to create a dialogue about Europe in our schools, associations and in public spaces. It is about the common values of Europe such as tolerance, human rights and democracy that are linked to issues such as xenophobia, racism and gender equality. The role of educational institutions and civil society in that sense were discussed during the event, from which you can find the full report on our website. More reports from the LLL Week coming soon!

UALL 2014 Annual Conference – Update
University of London
Transforming pedagogy? Flexible learning, teaching and innovation in the 21^st century
9^th to 11^th April
We are pleased to bring you up to date with the preparations and arrangements for our Annual Conference; the Drinks Reception, Book Launch and Conference Dinner will now be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms. The drinks reception will be in the Crown Room, and the Conference Dinner in the Cornwall Room. We have also been offered their top menu - engagingly known as the 'Titanic Menu'.
updated outline Conference Programme
Registration Form
List of Hotels
Directions to University of London. More...

The I-TUTOR (Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning) project started in January 2012 with the aim of developing a multi-agent based intelligent system to support online teachers, trainers, and tutors. The Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning (I-TUTOR) project aims at developing an intelligent tutoring system, to be applied in open source learning environments, able to monitor, track, analyze and give formative assessement and feedback loop to students within the learning environment, and give inputs to tutors and teachers involved in distance learning to better their role during the process of learning. The software is developed in java thus could be easily implmented and re-used in most of the common free platforms for eELearning. Project website. More...

The Universities Association for Lifelong Learning supports policy and practice across the UK higher education sector in part-time/flexible provision, employer engagement/work based learning, and community engagement.
About UALL
The Association acts as a consultative body for policy formulation and advocacy, representing the sector to government departments, funding bodies and national higher education organisations across the four nations of the United Kingdom. UALL provides a forum for the active exchange of ideas and good practice and undertakes research. Members represent all aspects of the sector, within and beyond universities, both in the UK and internationally, from senior managers to practitioners, and with interests ranging from public and employer engagement to lifelong learning. More...

The education goal in the post-2015 agenda is so far titled Quality Education and Lifelong Learning. This target will be taken strongly forward in the coming months by UIL and partner organisations.  As lifelong learning is linked to and contributes to other targets of the development agenda, the participants pointed out that lifelong learning  is not limited to education, but  is linked to issues including health, employment, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. In national lifelong learning policies, attention should not only be paid to formal learning, but also non-formal and informal learning. The meeting also discussed a technical note on lifelong learning prepared by UIL. It will be revised based on the input received from participants and will be part of UNESCO’s series of technical notes. The meeting emphasized the importance of strong partnerships between international organizations, governmental and non-governmental organisations, and the private sector, in moving the lifelong learning agenda forward. 

Links:

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/ED_new/pdf/UNESCOConceptNotePost2015_ENG.pdf

http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf