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Decolonizing Higher Education in Canada and Beyond

Posted March 21, 2024 - 16:45

We hope that PASCAL subscribers will find the attached report of interest. It builds on work that Rajesh, Lorna Wanots’sa7 Williams, Maeva Gauthier and I did at the  World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona in 2022 through the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. It provides a strong argument for the kinds of transformations needed to respond to global challenges and learn from indigenous world views.

Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning

Posted March 19, 2024 - 21:32

My article, Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning, may interest PASCAL subscribers especially those interest in learning cities. There is a huge gap between rhetoric at the macro/global level and what can happen at the local level of practice related to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) framework for Age-friendly cities. Many cities make no contribution at all to such intiatives such is the dire state of public finances.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Posted March 19, 2024 - 14:06

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Posted March 19, 2024 - 14:06

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Posted March 8, 2024 - 11:25

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts

Posted March 4, 2024 - 14:18

Dear LCN participants,

A reminder that today (4 March) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the conference in Taipei, and we hope that a number of you are able to come from the LCNs.

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