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Dr Chester Shaba appointed as Education Manager for Save the Children in Liberia

Posted July 19, 2011 - 08:42

Dr Chester Shaba, formerly at Pascal's Africa Centre at UNISA in Pretoria has been appointed as Education Manager for Save the Children in Liberia. He is based in Monrovia, but  services (through field offices) the entire country, providing education for refugees (for example the Ivorian refugee communities) and also helping the Liberian government in the recovery stage of their education system (especially ECD, primary and secondary education).

Regional Development and Higher Education - the Next Decade

Posted May 31, 2011 - 13:46

What have universities and other institutions of higher education (HEIs) contributed to the development of regions, in Europe and worldwide, in recent times? What may we expect of the HEIs, and about the development of regions, during the current decade? This follows the global financial crisis – the GFC - in a context of continuing ecological stress and continuing environmental degradation. What part do leading intergovernmental organisations play in all of this – and how about relations between Europe and other parts of a rapidly changing world?

PASCAL Response to Scottish Government Green Paper on Higher Education

Posted February 25, 2011 - 17:35

PASCAL has submitted a response to the SG on its current green paper on Higher Education:

PASCAL Response to Scottish Government Green Paper on Higher Education

Posted February 25, 2011 - 17:35

PASCAL has submitted a response to the SG on its current green paper on Higher Education:

Policy Challenge Paper 2 - Localism, place-making and social innovation

Posted February 19, 2011 - 09:31

In a recent presentation Josef Konwitz has pointed to the vital importance of innovation as one of the few levers currently available to governments as they seek to pull their economies out of recession (Konwitz, 2010).  He argues that the traditional factors of growth which have served the western world well from the end of the second world war have lost their potency, restricted by the very crisis from which, in earlier times, they would have fostered economic recovery.&n

 

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