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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - May 2011

Posted May 3, 2011 - 08:49

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Launch of PASCAL book 'The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universities' at UBC

May 10 2011 15:30
Europe/London
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Vancouver
Canada

Stephen Owen, Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations at UBC invites you to attend a book launch celebrating the release of the latest PASCAL volume 'The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universities' a compendium of essays co-edited by Hans G. Schuetze, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, UBC and Pat Inman of Northern Illinois University.

The book contains a number of contributions from UBC authors, including Janet Atkinson-Grosjean, Shauna Butterwick, Conor Douglas,Margo Fryer and Penny Gurst.

U-Multirank: Multi- dimensional Global ranking of Universities; a feasibility project.

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:44 by Mike Osborne

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website:

U-Map - a European classification of higher education institutions

Posted April 11, 2011 - 15:50 by Mike Osborne

U-Map is a project funded by the European Commission in which earlier work concerned with the European classification of higher education institutions is further developed and implemented. U-Map offers two tools to enhance transparency. ProfileFinder produces a list of higher education institutions (HEIs) that are comparable on the characteristics that have been selected. ProfileViewer gives an institutional activity profile that can used to compare three HEIs. U-Map is presented in demo-mode.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - April 2011

Posted April 6, 2011 - 08:31

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - March 2011

Posted March 3, 2011 - 09:03

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Does higher education create public good(s) and should it be publicly funded?

Feb 21 2011 12:00
Europe/London
Board Room, Albert College
Dublin City University
Dublin
Ireland

Higher education in challenging times: questioning the unquestioned.

A lecture series co‐sponsored by the Higher Education Research Centre at DCU, the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance and the Higher Education Authority.

You are invited to the second seminar in this series which aims to stimulate debate between researchers, those engaged in policy and practice in higher education and representatives of civil society.

Welcome - Professor Brian MacCraith, President DCU

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - February 2011

Posted February 2, 2011 - 00:53

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Conference presenting the Expedition Münsterland of the WWU

Mar 28 2011
Europe/Berlin
LWL National History Museum
Sentruper Straße 285
Münster
Germany

The WWU, through the Expedition Münsterland, directs attention to many stunning and exciting scientific hotspots in the Münsterland region. When taking science into consideration, Münsterland emerges as a region especially worth living in.

PUMR Briefing Paper 1

Posted January 13, 2011 - 12:25

PUMR BP1This paper provides a detailed statement for participants in PUMR of:

  • What the PUMR programme is intended to achieve;
  • The methods to be followed;
  • The proposed workplan for taking the project forward.

The paper clarifies the respective roles of participating universities on the one hand and of PASCAL on the other and sets out the anticipated outcomes and deliverables.

 

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