News

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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Sad demise - PRIA Director Dr Martha Farrell victim of Kabul terrorist attack

With deep and profound grief, we share that our colleague Dr Martha Farrell, Director, PRIA has left us all for the heavenly abode.  We received this sad news from Kabul, where Dr. Martha Farrell had gone on an official assignment. She was staying in a hotel and became a victim of a terrorist attack on the hotel.

Bíg Tent Communique VI: Local Identities and Global Citizenship: Challenges for Universities - BRIEFING

The idea for our Big Tent theme this year[1] arose from thinking about the location in Sicily of the 7-9 October of the 2015 PASCAL Annual Conference, "on the frontier of fortress Europe"; its theme is Connecting Cites and Universities at Strategic Frontiers.

Training programmes in entrepreneurship and business development for vulnerable groups in Girona

Please find attached details of three training programmes in the field of entrepreneurship and business development for vulnerable groups to held in Girona, Spain, and funded within the EC's Erasmus+ programme during 2015/2016.

Engaging communities and universities in the public good

The recent wave of tragic deaths in the Mediterranean Sea of Mothers, Fathers, Children and Babies underscores the depth of inequality, which persists, or even increases, in our troubled world.  The fact that some of these people have been headed to the very city, Catania, where we are meeting, means that we must no longer speak of higher education or universities in technical, managerial or abstracted terms. 

Online Courses - PRIA International Academy

We are pleased to inform you that we have a range of courses (short and long term) for offering in an online and distant mode of learning. Please find below further information about our new courses, offered through PRIA’s International Academy.

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