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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.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - September 2011

Posted September 12, 2011 - 08:42

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Social Capital Gateway updated

Posted September 11, 2011 - 11:56

The Social Capital Gateway has been thoroughly renewed, both in its design and contents, thank to the support by Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises).

Your weekend reading from PASCAL: OBSERVATIONS Weekend is out

Posted September 10, 2011 - 07:48

Please see this week's edition of OBSERVATIONS Weeken at http://paper.li/obspascal/1310800287 .

In one convenient place you will find the stories that have been highlighted in tweets from PASCAL over the past 7 days.

This week,  a number of items relate to important developments and contributions to the PASCAL PIE programme.  Please join the lively exchanges.

And there is more news and information on PASCAL themes.  OBSERVATIONS Weekend is out every Saturday.

Of course, comment and feedback would be very welcome.

The Stockholm Memorandum - Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability

Posted August 17, 2011 - 07:09

This publication has been produced following the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability (Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May 2011).  The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability was initiated in 2007 at
Potsdam and continued by the St James’s Palace Symposium in spring 2009. This Symposium series unites Nobel Laureates of various disciplines, top-level representatives from politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on sustainability.

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Flexible learning and its contribution to widening participation: a synthesis of research

Posted July 27, 2011 - 20:19

Today the UK's Higher Education Academy has published in its EvidenceNet series a new report entitled, 'Flexible learning and its contribution to widening participation: a synthesis of research' written by Muir Houston (PASCAL Affiliate), Velda McCune and Mike Osborne (PASCAL Co-director), all of the University of Glasgow.

 

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