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Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Posted April 23, 2013 - 22:57 by Mike Osborne

Having been in South Africa last week I was alerted to the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, and was pleased to see that it includes amongst its work a project on Transformation in Higher Education, which examines of ''how the concept of a ‘learning region’ may be applied to the Gauteng City-Region (GCR), through the institutional vehicle of the region’s higher education institutions''. More is found through the preceding hotlinks.

Be Knowledgiastic* - GUNi Conference April 13-15, Barcelona

Posted April 22, 2013 - 19:11 by Budd Hall

The final programme for the GUNi conference is exciting - A wonderful range of best practices from around the world will be showcased.  World leaders in Engagement and Higher Education will be there.  Leaders of all the major global networks in community university engagement. Funders and Senior policy makers at national and international level will be there.

Make sure that you are there as well!

Hoping to see you,

Budd and Rajesh

Riyadh Statement on Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Posted April 22, 2013 - 19:03 by Budd Hall

The Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosted an international conference on "Social Responsibility in Higher Education" April 16-17.  They brought together some of the best known women and men in the world for two days of dialogue and discussion.

PASCAL visits the Belgium Campus ITversity in Pretoria

Posted April 19, 2013 - 20:33 by Chris Shepherd

Enrico Jacobs, Belgian Campus UniversityPASCAL Co-directors, Paul Crawford and Mike Osborne together with PASCAL Deputy Chair, Chris Shepherd were delighted to be guests of the Vice-Chancellor of the Belgium Campus ITversity, Enrico Jacobs (pictured right), during the course of their visit to Pretoria.

This university which is closely linked with a number of our colleagues from the Flanders, who are involved with us in the PURE and PUMR, projects provides a very interesting model of learning in the field of niche area of Information Technology in a wonderful campus location.

We look forward to further collaboration with Enrico and colleagues.

PASCAL Co-directors visit the Centre for Education Policy and Development in Jo'Burg

Posted April 19, 2013 - 20:23 by Chris Shepherd

During the course of a visit to the PASCAL Centre in Pretoria, PASCAL Co-directors Catherine Odora Hoppers, Paul Crawford and Mike Osborne and PASCAL Vice-Chair, Chris Shepherd have also had the pleasure of visiting the Centre for Education Policy and Development and have discussed possible collaborative work with its director  Madumetja Paul Kgobe and a number of his colleagues.

Registration for Montreal 2013' the first global event of the World Congress on Access to Post-secondary Education is now open

Posted April 18, 2013 - 12:59 by Fran Ferrier

Registration for Montreal 2013' the first global event of the World Congress on Access to Post-secondary Education is now open.

Please spread the word!

Fran Ferrier
Executive Director

PASCAL Co-Directors visit the Seriti Institute in Jo'burg

Posted April 16, 2013 - 21:57 by Chris Shepherd

During the course of a visit to the PASCAL Centre in Pretoria, PASCAL Co-directors Catherine Odora Hoppers, Paul Crawford and Mike Osborne and PASCAL Vice-Chair, Chris Shepherd had the pleasure of visiting the Seriti Institute and hearing of its work from one of its founders Gavin Andersson. The projects that the Institute is engaged in provide opportunities of thousands of South Africans to experience work, some for the very first time, and we commend the work. 

Big Tent IV Dialogue open on 12 April

Posted April 8, 2013 - 15:29 by Norbert Steinhaus

Groups of university and community networks have been coming together since 2010 to share information and call for further action to enhance community-university engagement. These discussions have been framed as 'Big Tent' dialogues.

Xploit - first version of learningcommunities.eu launched

Posted April 5, 2013 - 09:52 by Jan Gejel

The first version of the final and reorganized Xploit outcomes website is now launched.

It is really a first version, and it will be further developed during the next months.

However, most of the content is in place, so you are invited to take a look (please click the image):

 

Should you have important material for the different themes and sections, you are most welcome to let us know.

Comments to the website should be mialed directly to Enara Zabaleta on [email protected].

Best regards,

Jan Gejel

EU Xploit Coordinator

UNESCO Chair - GACER News - April 5, 2013

Posted April 5, 2013 - 08:58 by Budd Hall

Rajesh and I are working on plans to combine our two mailing lists.  He has a one that he has used historically for his blogs of many years and I have maintained this list for the past 3-4 years.  Our plans are to continue to send our blogs out at least twice a month, but have them posted as well on our UNESCO Chair web site.

 

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