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This is an early alert to the fact that U21's Research Universities and their Regions (RUR) group will be arranging a workshop at Hong Kong University on Thursday 21 November 2013, kindly hosted by Dorothy Cheung and colleagues at the HKU Learning Space.

The final programme for the GUNi conference is exciting - A wonderful range of best practices from around the world will be showcased.  World leaders in Engagement and Higher Education will be there.  Leaders of all the major global networks in community university engagement. Funders and Senior policy makers at national and international level will be there.

Make sure that you are there as well!

Hoping to see you,

Budd and Rajesh

PASCAL Co-directors, Paul Crawford and Mike Osborne together with PASCAL Deputy Chair, Chris Shepherd were delighted to be guests of the Vice-Chancellor of the Belgium Campus ITversity, Enrico Jacobs (pictured right), during the course of their visit to Pretoria.

This university which is closely linked with a number of our colleagues from the Flanders, who are involved with us in the PURE and PUMR, projects provides a very interesting model of learning in the field of niche area of Information Technology in a wonderful campus location.

We look forward to further collaboration with Enrico and colleagues.

During the course of a visit to the PASCAL Centre in Pretoria, PASCAL Co-directors Catherine Odora Hoppers, Paul Crawford and Mike Osborne and PASCAL Vice-Chair, Chris Shepherd had the pleasure of visiting the Seriti Institute and hearing of its work from one of its founders Gavin Andersson. The projects that the Institute is engaged in provide opportunities of thousands of South Africans to experience work, some for the very first time, and we commend the work. 

Like all years, today is April Fool’s Day; but my reflections are no less random: