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Public Seminar: The Idea of the University for the 21st Century - 9 December, 2014

Dec 9 2014 10:30
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT University - Swanston Academic Building
445 Swanston Street
Melbourne

Starting from the observation that there is no longer a unifying “idea of the university” and that this might constitute a problem, in this presentation Professor Kehm will first present the idea of (European) university development as a sequence of generations.

ACU Engage Community launch, Thursday 4 December and GUNi seminar, Thursday 11 December 2014

Posted November 27, 2014 - 15:42

On the occasion of this year’s Talloires Network Leaders Conference 2014 (TLNC), and building on the responses to the Beyond 2015 campaign, the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) ia launching the ACU Engage Community, a new global network for universities committed to engaging with their local, national and regional communities.

PASCAL Director Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers to give keynote at TNLC in Cape Town

Posted November 11, 2014 - 12:07

PASCAL Director, Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers will be giving the keynote at the opening of the Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Cape Town on December 2, 2014, invited by the CEO of Talloires and the organizing team at the University of Stellenbosch.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - November 2014

Posted November 6, 2014 - 11:47

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for November 2014:

Engage conference 2014: 3rd and 4th December, Bristol

Dec 3 2014
Dec 4 2014
Europe/London
Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
College Green
Bristol BS1 5TA

Are you interested in how universities can play a more active role in stimulating dialogue and debate, and in feeding people’s curiosity and imagination? In learning from how other organisations – like the Eden Project and the BBC – go about this? In exploring tools and techniques for effective engagement, and exploring how such work can best be evaluated and supported?

CR&DALL Seminar Series 2014-15: Institutionalising Community Based Research ‐ Not as Easy as it Sounds: A Conversation

Nov 20 2014 12:30
Nov 20 2014 15:00
Europe/London
University of Glasgow School of Education
Room 101, St. Andrews Building, 11 Eldon St
Glasgow G3 6NH

Community University Research Partnerships, Community University Engagement and Public Engagement in Higher Education are amongst the most often discussed topics in Higher Education in many parts of the world.

Talloires Network Leaders Conference 2014 - Announcements

Posted October 17, 2014 - 12:48

There are less than 50 days until TNLC 2014! The TN Secretariat has been very busy preparing and we have some exciting announcements to share with you.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - October 2014

Posted October 7, 2014 - 22:07

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for October 2014:

Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement - a Talloires Network/Kettering Foundation supported partnership

Posted September 28, 2014 - 20:36 by Helen Martin

As part of an international collaboration made possible through the Talloires Network and the Kettering Foundation research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, the University of Glasgow along with colleagues and our community partners, from University of Western Sydney, American University of Cairo, International Medical University in Malaysia, Tecnológico de Monterrey University (one of the University of Glasgow's Universitas 21

Asia-Pacific University - Community Engagement Network Summit, 21-23 September 2014 in Malaysia

Posted September 26, 2014 - 11:08

USM - the University of Science Malaysia - is one of Malaysia's top-rated special 'research-led' universities under Malaysia's HE in development policy. USM fittingly hosted this week the second Summit this week of APUCEN, the Asia-Pacific University-Community Engagement Network: fittingly because of USM's long-standing commitment to local civil society as well as to industrial engagement.

 

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