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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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Release of Big Tent Communique on Sustainability, Knowledge and Higher Education

Posted May 21, 2012 - 01:06

Universities have a responsibility to look after the well-being of the planet:

It is time to decolonise our universities and learn from the diverse ecologies of knowledge about how to live sustainably

Special Release of English/Mayo: 'Learning with Adults'

Posted May 17, 2012 - 17:31

This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have hope that our long term goals of education for life and living can and will be accomplished alongside professional and vocational education.

Full details follow...

Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012

Posted May 17, 2012 - 17:04

Representatives from PASCAL, Hans Schuetze and Michael Osborne, attended the recent Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012 following the Living Knowledge conference held in that city and during which the third Big Tent communique was presented. This communique will follow soon.

The role of HE in local and regional social and economic development - Brest, 29-31 October. Call for Papers. Deadline 25 June

Posted May 16, 2012 - 15:01

The PASCAL International Observatory is pleased to announce its 10th annual conference: "The role of Higher Education in local and regional social and economic development", to be hosted at the Western Brittany University (UBO) from October 29-31, 2012, in Brest, France.

Launch of new edition of "80:20 – Development in an unequal world"

Posted May 15, 2012 - 07:20

On 18 April 2012 more than 60 academics, students, teachers and representatives from Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) attended the UK launch of the new edition of the internationally popular development education resource, 80:20 – Development in an unequal world.

 

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