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PASCAL SIG: Public Sector Interface Newsletter: Issue Three: Regionalism and the Changing Role of Universities

The purpose of this PASCAL Special Interest Group (SIG) is to examine the interface between PASCAL and the public policy sectors. While this topic is a very broad, it cuts across sectors and issues, including innovative resource sharing and the role of institutions of higher education, and those organizations that develop policy. It includes the development of intercultural activity.

In this third issue, the themes of regionalism and the changing role of universities are considered.

Ripples - Autumn 2017 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Community Network (ALCN)

Please find featured below and attached the Autumn 2017 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):

Meeting Todays Challenges for a Better World - topical coverage on Australian television

Some recent documentaries/investigative interviews on Australian television have particular relevance to the topics of interest to followers of the PASCAL LCN "Meeting Today's Challenges for a Better Future" network.

Upcoming Springer publication on Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions

The Springer publication on “Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions” is in final stages of editing and should be available soon. The book has been edited by Judith James and Jean Preece (Swansea) and Raul Valdes-Cotera (UIL) and so represents a nice example of PASCAL and UIL collaboration.

PIMA No 10 Newsletter February 2017

Please find featured below and attached the No 10 PIMA Newsletter, for February 2017.

Global Engagement, Human Rights, and Cognitive Justice - Catherine Odora Hoppers

PASCAL subscribers, particularly in the US, may be interested in a Keynote presentation that PASCAL Director, Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers in making at Michigan State University, East Lancing on 15 March at 1500 on the subject of Global Engagement, Human Rights, and Cognitive Justice.

Resiliency, citizen science and environmental justice

It has been hard to find joy in the heated rhetoric of recent weeks.  What does provide great comfort is the amazing number of inspiring gatherings and projects emerging in response to the unreasonable rants.  

Re travel ban: University action in response to U.S. executive order

There is world wide shock, protests and discussion about president Trump's entry ban for Muslims from some seven Middle East countries.

PIMA Newsletter No 9

Please find featured below and attached the No 9 PIMA Newsletter, for December 2016.

Don't miss #learningcities weekly

Every Wednesday, PASCAL's weekly curated newspaper #learningcities week is published.

 

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