The eighth annual MacJannet Prize will recognize exceptional student civic engagement initiatives based in Talloires Network member universities around the world and contribute financially to their ongoing public service efforts.
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 Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences from the University of Johannesburg proudly presents the Value2016 Conference that will take place from 22 to 24 May at Zebula Golf Estate and Country Lodge, and we would like you to participate in this astonishing event. Since the inaugural Value2006’s conference hosted at Sun City in May 2006 we are now delighted to announce that we are celebrating a decade of financial brilliance and excellence after 10 years of quality research published.
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.
Thirty years ago, when Jack Mezirow first introduced a theory of adult learning, it helped explain how adults changed the way they interpreted their world. This theory of transformative learning is considered uniquely adult&# 8212;that is, grounded in human communication, where “learning is understood as the process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or revised interpretation of the meaning of one’s experience in order to guide future action” (Mezirow, 1996, p. 162).
PASCAL subscribers may be interested in this item summarised from the Toronto Globe and Mail from University of Winnipeg, President Annette Trimbee and Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs, Wab Kinew:
We feature below materials from Dr Rajesh Tandon’s lecture on "Experience of Engaged Scholarship and Knowledge Democracy and new Approaches to Community-Based Participatory Research” at The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, UK on December 01, 2015 together with his presentation on findings from the IDRC-supported study on Community University Research Partnerships (CURP) at the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), London on November 30, 2015.
The Annual Conference is the high point of the UALL year, and we are pleased that our 2016 Conference will be held at Rewley House, University of Oxford. I am pleased to attach the outline Conference Programme together with the Call for Papers (deadline 30 November):
