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.

Ongoing Reforms in Adult Education in Europe

Last week from 7-9 March 2011, the final conference on the Action Plan on Adult Learning, organised by the European Commission and the Hungarian Presidency was held in Budapest. During this conference, Research voor Beleid presented findings of a joint research project on ongoing reforms. This study included expert contributions from PASCAL Board member Professor Balazs Nemeth, associate Kate Sankey and PASCAL Co-Director Mike Osborne.

NIU's Center for Governmental Studies Policy Profile: "Do Home Rule Governments Work Better?"

Northern Illinois University Professor Curtis Wood offers a perspective on an issue that has been controversial in the United States since the end of the Revolutionary War.  Prof. Wood makes an important contribution to the dialogue concerning centralization vs. decentralization in government (see "Do Home Rule Governments Work Better?" below).

PIE - Briefing Paper 02

PIE Briefing Paper 1 set guidelines for the initial development of PASCAL International Exchanges.  This stage of PIE development has produced a good deal of valuable information on issues, challenges and strategies adopted by the participating cities.

It is now timely to build on the information and ideas brought forward and to find ways to make the PIE process of exchanges innovative and creative in adding value to the experience of individual cities through the PIE process.

In order to progress PIE to the next stage of development and collaborative sharing of ideas and experience, the following steps are proposed.

  1. We shall invite the author of each stimulus paper to respond to the blog contributions to their and other papers with a short Response Note up to one page in length;
  2. We shall prepare a number of PIE Discussion Papers which seek to bring together the themes that have emerged in the initial round of posts. These will be available on the PIE web space in late March. We would hope that the participants in each city might then be able to get together to share their thoughts about these discussion papers, and then provide some further feedback to the PIE site.

This Briefing Paper provides detailed information on each of these steps.

PASCAL Response to Scottish Government Green Paper on Higher Education

PASCAL has submitted a response to the SG on its current green paper on Higher Education:

PASCAL Response to Scottish Government Green Paper on Higher Education

PASCAL has submitted a response to the SG on its current green paper on Higher Education:

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