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New book: China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa - The Case of Education and Training by Kenneth King

Posted May 10, 2013 - 16:14 by Mike Osborne

China's increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically.

Why does China run one of the world's largest short-term training programmes, with plans to bring 30,000 Africans to China between 2013 and 2015?

Why does it give generous support to 24 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture at many of Africa's top universities from the Cape to Cairo?

RUR Workshop - HKU Learning Space, 21 November 2013

Posted April 26, 2013 - 14:35 by Mike Osborne

This is an early alert to the fact that U21's Research Universities and their Regions (RUR) group will be arranging a workshop at Hong Kong University on Thursday 21 November 2013, kindly hosted by Dorothy Cheung and colleagues at the HKU Learning Space.

Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Posted April 23, 2013 - 21:57 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.

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Formal Launch of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Posted March 6, 2013 - 21:06 by Mike Osborne

I was delighted to have been invited to the Formal Launch of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education at the University of Victoria on 4 March. This event took place in the Ceremonial Hall of First People's House at the University of Victoria.

Silver workers - golden opportunities - Exploring the benefits of investing in an ageing workforce

Posted February 21, 2013 - 16:39 by Mike Osborne

A number of projects within PASCAL, including currently THEMP, are concerned with the benefits of lifelong learning for older learners. A briefing report from CEDEFOP entitled, Silver workers - golden opportunities - Exploring the benefits of investing in an ageing workforce, provides a useful backdrop to that debate and is featured below.

PASCAL & CAAC – A Meeting of Minds

Posted December 20, 2012 - 05:13 by Mike Osborne

During the PASCAL 2012 Conference in October in Brest, Brittany, France delegates to the Conference, including PASCAL Chair Josef Konvitz, met with representatives of the Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities (CAAC). By simple coincidence the CAAC was in Brest at the same time as PASCAL for their annual conference! A meeting was arranged between Alan Foster, PASCAL Executive Officer, and Tamara Guirao-Espiñeira, CAAC Co-ordinator, in order to explore issues of common interest.

Films for Action

Posted December 9, 2012 - 13:02 by Mike Osborne

Films for Action looks like an interesting resource from the US with some 900 films available free online around various aspects of activism. Some of their work is based around action at the city level.

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Preparatory meeting for the first UNESCO Global Learning Cities Conference - Beijing

Posted December 3, 2012 - 22:41 by Mike Osborne

Preparatory meeting for the first UNESCO Global Learning Cities Conference The Preparatory meeting for the first UNESCO Global Learning Cities conference was held in Beijing on 1st December by UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning, together with the National Commission of China for UNESCO of the Ministry of Education China, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission the Chinese and many other national and international organisations.

PASCAL was represented by its Co-director, Professor Michael Osborne. The conference will be held in November 2013 in Beijing.

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Higher Education in Regional and City Development - OECD reports

Posted November 25, 2012 - 14:34 by Mike Osborne

Subscribers may be interested in reading the most recent 16 reports published by the OECD from their project, Higher Education in Regional and City Development:

10th PASCAL Conference - a happy delegate at the dinner. Better than being the dinner!

Posted November 2, 2012 - 06:01 by Mike Osborne

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