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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PIE - Briefing Paper 01

This paper provides participants in PIE with an introduction to:

  • What PIE is intended to achieve
  • The methods to be followed in this first phase of the project.

The paper clarifies the roles of cities and their participating representatives, on the
one hand, and of PASCAL on the other and sets out the anticipated outcomes and
deliverables. Other Briefing Papers will be released subsequently to introduce the
successive phases of the project

PASCAL sends its sympathies to the people of the PURE region of Darling Downs

PASCAL sends its sympathies to the people of the PURE region of Darling Downs and particularly the people of Toowoomba, which has suffered terrible flooding and loss of life. The attached pictures and link to a youtube video sent by PASCAL Associate, Professor Glen Postle, give you some idea of the devastation caused. We hope that the worst is over and our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues.

 

 

The video is of Chalk Drive, Toowoomba, taken from across the road from the Flexi School. You can see the school in some of the shots (click on an image to view/show slideshow).

Toowoomba Flood-01

Results of the Interactive Workshop on Defining Regional Prosperity - PASCAL 2010 Conference, Botswana

Notes from the Interactive Workshop on Defining Regional Prosperity “Engaged Universities and Learning Cities-Regions” at the 9th PASCAL International Observatory Conference Organized by the University of Botswana December 2, 2010

Workshop Facilitators:

Robert E. Gleeson, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University and PASCAL

Diana Robinson, Northern Illinois University and PASCAL

UNISA’s Incubator for New Thinking: PASCAL Launch

The DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education at UNISA officially has become the fourth node for the PASCAL International Observatory on human development. At the launch of the African Centre on 29 November 2010 in the Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong, UNISA’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Barney Pityana, reaffirms the university’s commitment to the Chair’s intention to look at new ways of thinking.

UNISA PASCAL signing

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