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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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PASCAL Special Interest Group - Public Sector Interface

Posted January 19, 2016 - 07:41

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) were agreed by the PASCAL Board as part of a recent review of PASCAL structures in order to give focus to the advice required by the Board in particular areas of its work; PASCAL is therefore now establishing a series of these SIGs.

The real cost of open-plan workspaces in universities

Posted January 19, 2016 - 07:39

In the last decades, higher education is under the pressure to bring innovation and effective new solutions for economic growth and social cohesion. In this context, architects were called to bring their contribution to change higher education from within. The result is a predominance of learning spaces that translate the belief that new designs can stimulate collaboration, creativity and ultimately, good science.

Training & Employment n° 118 - Do young graduates with professional and vocational master¹s degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs?

Posted January 19, 2016 - 07:26

Professional and vocational courses requiring 5 years’ post-secondary study are supposed to meet specific needs for competences in a given area of employment. Young graduates believe they have acquired the specific competences they think their employers require. In their view, the shortfall lies in their general competences. Is this a reason to question the increasingly vocational nature of university courses? 

UALL 2016 Annual Conference, Oxford - Programme including Workshop Seminars

Posted January 18, 2016 - 06:28

I’m pleased to bring you up to date with the preparations and arrangements for our Annual Conference.  The Annual Conference is the high point of the UALL year, and we are pleased that our 2016 Conference will be held at the University of Oxford between Wednesday, 16 and Friday, 18 March.

SCUTREA 2016 Conference - Abstract Deadline Extended

Posted January 14, 2016 - 06:46

We have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts for SCUTREA's 2016 Conference 'Adult Education in Austere Times' to be held from 5-7 July at the University of Leicester's College Court Conference Centre. The deadline for abstracts is now Friday 29 January 2016.

 

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