We are delighted to be holding a R&D workshop from 1-4 June to support the establishment of our first R&D board within the Ministry of Education in Kurdistan. With the invaluable support of colleagues from ten UK universities, we are aiming  to create a highly influential board that will drive impactful research, fostering societal and economic advancements.

The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP), in cooperation with Springer’s International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, launches a new series of webinars to present cutting-edge research on lifelong learning to an interested audience. In a compact format, individual research findings and critical reflections on burning issues, such as the ecology of lifelong-lifewide learning for sustainable generative futures or learning for climate justice will be presented and discussed in the focus of social/political and the economic.

In June 2022 the Marrakech Framework for Action (MFA) was discussed and adopted by adult educators from around the globe at CONFINTEA VII under the leadership of UNESCO.  On 11^th April the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organisations (COLLO) and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) are holding a webinar to reflect about the potentials of implementing the MFA.

There are currently exceptional pressures on local authority budgets in the UK, and it can seem almost inevitable that adult and lifelong learning provision is likely to suffer. At the same time, post-compulsory education rarely gets much attention in the UK press, and within that broad category adult and lifelong learning probably gets the least. There may thus be a risk that adult education and lifelong learning in the UK might pass away quietly, without anybody much noticing.