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LLL driving universities’ ambitions for teaching and research? Workshop at University of Glasgow 14/15 May 2012 - Register Now

Posted March 5, 2012 - 17:03 by Susan Geerthuis

Lifelong learning driving universities’ ambitions for advanced teaching and research? Dare we? Can we? Let’s!

14/15 May

Within many universities, lifelong learning and adult education teeter on the brink of a vicious cycle of low status, poor resourcing, and reducing relevance. Within Europe and the wider world departments devoted to adult education are under threat while universities shift focus from the marginalised to attracting talented researchers and raising their international profile.

PUMR Academic Director speaks in Budapest and New York

Posted February 28, 2012 - 14:21 by Mike Osborne

James Powell, Academic Director of PASCAL PUMR recently led a Executive Higher Educational Institution Briefing for 12 Rectors and Vice Rectors on the Modern Renaissance, its implications for them and the role PUMR can play in helping prepare their universities for the Modern Era. The event was hosted by the Central European University in Budapest with a grant from the European ESMU fund. There was much interest by the Rectors in the PUMR approach and requests for Professor Powell to undertake follow up meetings for detailed discussions in Kazakstan, Belarus and Poland.

Engaging in Lifelong Learning: Shaping Inclusive and Responsive University Strategies. European Universities Association Report

Posted February 28, 2012 - 11:55 by Mike Osborne

Attached is the SIRUS report, Engaging in Lifelong Learning: Shaping Inclusive and Responsive University Strategies, by Hanne Smidt  and Andrée Sursock, which is based on material prepared by representatives of the 29 participating European universities.  It is based on a study of the institutional lifelong learning strategies of these universities by the European Universities Association, who suggest that frank and open discussions provided invaluable insights into strategic institutional development.

Second Global Communique on Community University Research and Engagment: A Future Scenario

Posted November 2, 2011 - 02:06 by Budd Hall

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Organizing around Food: Setting the Table for Collaboration. Introducing FARE (Food and Agriculture in Regional Engagement)

Posted October 21, 2011 - 15:40 by Pat Inman

Communities organize around many things but the most natural focus for collaboration is food.  Food is not only life sustaining but provides seeds for local economic development.  A community-based food-systems approach has the potential to simultaneously address issues of food security, public health, social justice, and ecological health in local communities and regions, as well as economic vitality of agriculture and rural communities. 

 

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