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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.

We invite readers to submit items for consideration. Please send your contributions to our Submissions Administrator.

Call for Contributions - Lifelong Learning Universities and the European Policies on Social Investment

Posted February 26, 2014 - 09:27

EUCEN's next conference will offer participants an opportunity to debate with international experts key policy issues related to the way Lifelong Learning Universities and the European Policies understand and address "Social Investment" through four topics:

Call for papers - Higher Education and its Principal Mission: Preparing Students for Life, Work, and Civic Engagement

Posted February 21, 2014 - 12:24

The 11th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform will take place from August 25 to 27, 2014 at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada). As part of the ongoing discussion about changes in Higher Education (HE) and HE reform, the Workshop will focus on issues concerning the most important target group and resource of HE students.

Call for Submissions: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2014)!

Posted February 20, 2014 - 12:14

The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

Join us for: 'Feed the City' 10am to 4pm, Grand Parade, Cork City, Saturday March 15th 2014

Posted February 18, 2014 - 11:34

The centrepiece of the day will be the preparation and serving of 6,000 plates of vegetable curry for the people of Cork. This lunch, FREE for all, will be prepared from perfectly safe surplus vegetables that would otherwise have gone to waste.

This lunch is offered to you as part of the launch of Cork Food Policy Council, to highlight how much food goes to waste in our current food system.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics with support from US National Science Foundation

Posted February 14, 2014 - 11:28

Big Data has opened up several opportunities to obtain new insights on cities. We invite papers at the intersection of the urban social sciences and the data sciences to be presented in an NSF-sponsored workshop to be held on Aug 11-12, 2014, in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

 

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