It is good to see that some of the work that was featured in the PURE case-study of Darling Downs continues, and that a key colleague there, PASCAL Associate, Glen Postle has received the Miller-Grassie Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education.

The final report and annexes of case studies from a Study on Innovation in Higher Education undertaken for the European Union in 2013 led by LSE Enterprise and the Panteia Group have just been published. PASCAL undertook two of the case studies within this study, which are found in the annex as follows:

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre, commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline the range of research currently underway in UK universities that connected with cities.

Earlier details of one post were made available, but the University of Glasgow is currently advertising a large number of other posts, associated with the new ESRC-funded Urban Big Data Centre and the recently-launched MSc in Urban Transport. These posts are an opportunity to be based in a Centre at the forefront of the ‘big data’ movement, and include roles for social scientists and computer scientists. Here are links to all of the posts available.

This new publication from CEDEFOP, On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies, will be of interest to many subscribers. We feature the English version below, translations are available from the CEDEFOP website.