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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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - September 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 September 2014:

European Institute of Community Reporters - What's the story?

As part of James Powell developments for PUMR, he is working on a project with Peoples Voice Media called the European Institute of Community Reporters. This has been established so that just over 2,000 community reporters have been coached, and now coach themselves, to spread their own ‘Voices’ via social media on issues important to them, often through the use of short stories.

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.

University-regional partnerships across Europe

This booklet featured below and attached  provides a variety of case studies of university-regional partnerships across Europe.  They have been provided by members of the S3 Platform established by Euroepan Commission's DG Regional Policy and managed by the Joint Research Centre in Seville.

From MDGs to SDGs, a process well underway - The World Beyond 2015 - Is Higher Education Ready?

Last month saw a number of important developments in the run-up to the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the preparations for a broader set of follow-up goals.

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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