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Invitation to Symposium on Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions

Posted March 5, 2014 - 06:41 by Jean Preece

Following the publication of the UNESCO Beijing Declaration on Learning Cities adopted in October 2013, the Swansea Bay City Region, the pilot UNESCO Learning City for the UK, seeks to keep up the momentum generated at that conference. Swansea University have are hosting a symposium on The Entrepreneurial Learning City Region.

Brittany/Cornwall: What relations?

Posted February 28, 2014 - 11:31 by Jean-Marie Filloque

The Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC’s) first Rencontres Bretagne-Monde Anglophone in 2012 marked the beginning of a series of biennial conferences that will continue until 2020.

Nextwork European Project Forum 2014

Posted February 28, 2014 - 11:15 by Ettore Ruggiero

Nextwork is an important event aimed at developing international relations with the various protagonists of the EU grant-funded projects (academic and educational Institutions, Universities, companies, Public Authorities, associations and research centres).

Child Sensitive Social Policies International Conference 2014 Harare, Zimbabwe

Posted February 26, 2014 - 09:56 by Muir Houston

The Department of Child Sensitive Social Policies at the Women’s University in Africa in collaboration with UNICEF Zimbabwe hosted the inaugural Child Sensitive Social Policies Conference. The main conference theme ‘Towards a Child Sensitive Society on Africa’ sought to explore the centrality of children in African contexts.

Time for a renewed focus on Planetary Survival?

Posted February 26, 2014 - 08:06 by Budd Hall

A Canadian Government Environmental study of the effects of tailing ponds, a by-product of Canadian Tar Sands oil production shows that an un-Godly mixture of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are leaching into the ground water and finding their way to the Athabasca river, a major waterway in northern Alberta.

Strategic Doing: Developing & Implementing Strategy within Loose Regional Networks

Posted February 24, 2014 - 22:43 by Paul Crawford

Designing and implementing regional development strategies poses serious challenges.  Part of the problem may be that the traditional approach to strategy, a linear process of strategic planning, is not well suited to the task.  

Education for All: IAU Workshop on HE and Education for All (HEEFA), Delhi, India.

Posted February 24, 2014 - 16:32 by Valtencir Mendes

Last week the International Association of Universities and the Lady Irwin College at the University of Delhi organised the workshop "A three-step activity to envision higher education for Education for All locally" (Feb 19-21, 2014).

A Catalyst for Regeneration

Posted February 21, 2014 - 04:15 by Jim Saleeba

The town of Bingara lies within the Shire of Gwydir in North Western New South Wales.

It faces problems similar to other parts of rural Australia: declining population with resultant lack of employment opportunities; withdrawal of services to provincial and even metropolitan cities; and a difficult future maintaining its viability.

9th international conference DisCo 2014: Media literacy education from pupils to lifelong learning in Prague, 23-25 June

Posted February 19, 2014 - 14:41 by Jakub Štogr

The 9th international conference DisCo 2014: Media literacy education from pupils to lifelong learning will be organised between 23.-25.6.2014 by the Centre for Higher Education Studies and New Media Studies at the Department of Information Science and Librarianship at Faculty of Arts of Charles University.

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Governance of Everyday Life

Posted February 18, 2014 - 09:39 by Rajesh Tandon

A young boy from a north-eastern province was beaten to death in Delhi recently. Young girls from that region of India have been facing harassment and violence on the streets of Delhi for long. Discrimination, ill-treatment and harassment are faced by domestic maids in middle class homes of Delhi regularly. Abusive language is used against rickshaw-pullers by those driving a motorcycle or car to push them off the road and make the way.

 

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