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.

We invite readers to submit items for consideration. Please send your contributions to our Submissions Administrator.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - February 2014

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for February 2014:

Learning Cities 2020 Workshop Series - Call for papers for the PASCAL workshop on Cities learning together - public administration as a domain for smart solutions

University of Tampere, School of Management, Finland, 12-13 June 2014

The objective of the conference is to bring about awareness of the role and needs of local communities in relation to learning, and to seek smart solutions in which cities and other public organizations can play a greater role in response to those needs.

UNESCO Chair in CBR: Invitation to Participate in a Survey on Community University Partnerships

You are invited to participate in a multi-lingual global survey (English, Spanish, Portuguese and French) on Community University Research Partnership (CURP) facilitating structures and trends around the world, in cooperation with our regional and global network partners.

Crystallising the discourse on cognitive justice - The 6th DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education retreat

There is a developing consonance of agendas within Unisa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST)/National Research Foundation (NRF) South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) in Development Education and its impact on innovation, teaching and learning, research, and community engagement at the university is growing day-by-day. Expanding the chair’s genuinely African expression and thinking on education and research, its 6th retreat was officially opened on 23 November 2013. The theme this year, Establishing the discourse and protocols for innovations from below as restorative action to the communities, brought together a range of accomplished speakers from across Africa and the globe.

Unisa’s Odora-Hoppers honoured for research and scholarship

Unisa boasts a number of academics and staff who have received accolades for their sterling work across the university, country, continent and globe. Joining that elite list is Professor Catherine Odora-Hoppers, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honour for her research and scholarship in commemoration of Uganda’s Golden Jubilee of Independence this year.

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

Click the image to visit site

X