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A preview of the upcoming PIMA Bulletin No 22

Contributors to the January issue of the PIMA Bulletin No 22 are hard at work on what we hope will be another interesting and informative publication. Here is a preview of the Contents:

Big Tent Communique VI final text

[Please note: An edited and formatted version of the final text is available here.]

Invitation to become a member of the Friends of PASCAL Association

You are invited to become a member of the Friends of PASCAL Association headquartered in Melbourne Australia:

Call for comments/suggestions on the SECOND draft of the 6th Big Tent Communiqué

Your critical feedback on this new Big Tent draft for the Catania Conference will be most welcome. So will any new thoughts related to the theme and earlier discussion.

Friends of PASCAL Association

Following an initial founding meeting held in Melbourne in February this year a Friends of PASCAL Association was formed on 4 July 2015, and is registered in Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. This will be a valuable supplement to the work of the International Observatory. It sits very well with changes in governance arrangements under way with the Board, especially its new and wider concept of membership.

Big Tent – Draft 6th communique to discuss, finalise and release at the PASCAL Catania Conference in October.

PASCAL is a founder and lead player in the Big Tent initiative started in 2010. Here is a draft towards a communique for our Catania Conference in October. Please try to read and work and comment so we can get the best and strongest possible outcome – one that will be heeded and help to make a difference. We want something that will not be easily ignored. The Pope's new and unequivocal Encyclical sets the bar pretty high!

Celebrating the life and work of Sir David Watson -Green Templeton College, Oxford 3 June 2015

As PASCAL Website users and many members of PASCAL anyway well know, David was an outstanding person and a leading global-local advocate of university engagement and of useful and relevant education for the community and for society generally.

Local Identities and Global Citizenship: Challenges for Universities

This is the prospective title of the 6th Communique of the Big Tent, to be finalized and issued at the end of the 12th PASCAL Conference in Catania, Sicily, on 9 October this year.

Cities, Universities and Science

In a government reshuffle in Britain in July 2014, newly appointed universities Minister and Cabinet Member Greg Clark assumed a role expanded from that of his predecessor David Willetts. Cities were added to his portfolio. The Times Higher Education leader for 24 July, Closing the “town-gown” gap, mentions a concern that this further signals ‘the reduction of universities into economic tools or “engines of growth”’.

11th PASCAL Conference - Closing thoughts...

Cities Learning Together showed that partners can collaborate productively around shared purposes. The outcome can be shared ownership and commitment to further bilateral and multilateral action. This comes from learning together in an open participatory way, where different parties contribute relevant authority and expertise from different kinds of experience.
 

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