The year 2024 was exceptional.  PASCAL has grown with the adhesion of two new centres.  In New Brunswick, New Jersey USA, Prof. Radha Jagannathan leads a centre at Rutgers University, a key institution in the greater New York metropolitan region.  This centre promises to improve our understanding of youth education (STEM) and employment issues, with a focus on the design and planning of infrastructure, to strengthen connections between universities and the public sector.  Catherine Lido, Glasgow Centre Director, travelled to New Jersey to attend the launch of the Rutgers Centre.

An open online course, ‘Distributing learning and knowledge creation’, aims to set open and distributed education in a broad framework of knowledge equity. Published under a CC licence, universities are free to use, and adapt, the course to build capacity among their staff and others for reducing inequity via distributing education to those who currently miss out.