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State Education Dialogue on Strengthening Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions in India

In Siliguri (West Bengal), Chandigarh (Punjab) and Delhi during the period 3-7 March 2014, PASCAL Director Mike Osborne was very pleased to be part of three events concerned with strengthening community engagement in HE in India.

A new Urban Big Data Research Centre (UBDRC) at the University of Glasgow

Today the UK Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP, announced the release of £14 million to fund the second phase of the ESRC's investment in Big Data. At a speech at the High Performance Computing and Big Data Conference, Mr Willetts outlined what steps are being taken to strengthen the UK’s competitive advantage in Big Data.

The World Beyond 2015 - Is Higher Education Ready?

The world faces some serious challenges, and higher education is an essential part of the response. Universities are already engaging with these issues, but are still trying to articulate their current and potential role.

Global University Rankings – Impacts and Applications

Subscribers will find attached a recent presentation at the 5th International Conference on World-Class Universities, 3 to 6 November 2013 in Shanghai, China made by Prof. Dr. Barbara M. Kehm of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow:

 

Something for your Xmas Stocking - Universities and Lifelong Learning

We are very pleased that three books in the series Universities and Lifelong Learning, inspired by the PURE project, and published by Manchester University Press are now available. Details can be found at the MUP website.

PASCAL Director attends Citynet conference in Seoul

Professor Michael Osborne, PASCAL Director at the University of Glasgow was very pleased to be able to attend the CityNet conference held between 3 and 6 November at Seoul City Hall and Global Centre. It was a pleasure for PASCAL as partners of CityNet to attend this event, which was full of excellent dialogue.

PASCAL Director to Address 2013 Global HR Forum in Seoul - 7 November

We are happy to report that Professor Michael Osborne has been invited to be a speaker at this year's Global HR Forum in Seoul, Korea at the request of the Korean Ministry of Education. He will contribute an address with the forum's theme of Lifelong Learning in the Centennial Era - For the Happy Third Age.

2013 Lifelong Learning Planet Forum in Korea

Today has been the first day of the 2013 Lifelong Learning Planet Forum hosted by the Gyeonggi Do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning (GILL) and the National Institute for Lifelong Education in Korea.

PASCAL Director Professor Michael Osborne was amongst the speakers focusing on European patterns in learning city development. Interestingly we have also discovered that Gyeonggi-do and Tampere City in Finland have been exchanging practices, during the course of a GILL staff tour to three Nordic countries, which had the aim of looking for insight and interesting case examples of LLL and adult education. This is quite a co-incidence since later this month PASCAL will be hosting a party of mayors from the Tampere area in Glasgow. So it seems a three way Korea-Finland-Scotland exchange is possible.

New PASCAL book series - Universities and Lifelong Learning from Manchester University Press

Please find below details of the first three books in a new PASCAL book series on Universities and Lifelong Learning being published shortly by Manchester University Press. The series editor is PASCAL Director for Europe, Professor Mike Osborne of the University of Glasgow, and we are very pleased that so many of our associates and principals are involved in the project.

This work was inspired in the first instance by the PURE project, and a number of other books will follow.

Lifelong Learning Seminars at the University of Strathclyde

Details of two seminars being run by our colleagues at the University of Strathclyde have recently been published:

‘Impact of Lifelong Learning Strategies on Professional Higher Education in Europe.’ - 12th September 2012

‘Change management in Universities - The Case of Finland.’ - 21st November 2012

Of interest to colleagues involved in lifelong learning and in change management in universities these events are described fully in the attachments to this entry. 

 

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