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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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Education: What's the smartest post-2015 target?

The Copenhagen Consensus Center has just released its latest research series on Education targets for the post-2015 agenda. What is the smartest education target? Reduce by 50% the proportion of children not in pre-school in sub-Saharan Africa. For every dollar spent, the net benefit is 33 dollars:

Municipal-University Engagement LC2020 Workshop hosted by UNISA, PASCAL and the City of Tshwane, 21 August 2014

This workshop on the campus of UNISA, attended by nearly 100 people from government and UNISA, carried the Learning City 2020 series of PASCAL events in 2014 forward.  Becoming a Learning City – not if, but how - was the theme of the speech by Prof. Mandla Makhanya, Vice-Chancellor of UNISA (Africa’s largest university), who put the Learning City at the centre of UNISA’s commitment to community engagement.

Connecting Research with Cities

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline what is happening on urban systems and technology development inside UK universities. The attached document is the report of that commission.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 4 - Learning Cities: Strategies for promoting inclusion

This paper provides an overview of some of the insights and lessons derived from exchanges between cities in many parts of the world which participated in the PASCAL International Exchanges programme (PIE) over the past 4 years, as cities faced the challenge of finding new ways in which their learning city strategies can contribute to inclusion objectives.

How can universities support disadvantaged communities?

This report written by Fred Robinson, Ian Zass-Ogilvie and Ray Hudson for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the UK comes a little late to our attention as it was published in 2012, but will be of interest to many subscribers.

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