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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

PASCAL 2010 Keynote - Neuroscience, place, learning & the university - Steve Garlick

A keynote presentation by Steve Garlick:

PURE Interim Synthesis Report

This report has two purposes. The first is to inform participants at the PASCAL Conference in Gaborone on 30 November - 2 December about PURE. The second is to provide regions taking part in the PURE project with a summary of common findings, issues and advice.

National government, and increasingly intergovernmental bodies like the European Union and Commission, influence what engagement can take place in local regions. This report is however addressed to two main parties, regional administrations and their communities, and higher education institutions.

Brief report on the half-day PURE working session within the Gabarone Conference

The whole of the final morning of the PASCAL International Conference in Gabarone was given over to a consideration of the work of the PASCAL Universities and Regional Engagement (PURE) Project.

PASCAL 2010 Keynote - Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Environmental Engagement - Opha Pauline Dube

A keynote presentation by Opha Pauline Dube:

PASCAL 2010 Keynote - Engagement in African Universities - Professor Olusola Oyewole

The first keynote at the 9th PASCAL International Observatory conference in Gaborone, Botswana was presented by Professor Olusola Oyewole of African Union, Addis Ababa on the topic of Regional Engagement for African Universities: Challenges and Prospects. This presentation complemented a series of excellent welcome sessions from the Mayor of Gaborone City, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana and the Chair of the PASCAL Advisory Board.

The supporting keynote presentation outline appears below:

Knowledge Cities Summit

The Knowledge Cities Summit, held in Melbourne last week, was an important opportunity for academics, government and business to talk with each other about the emerging features of economic and social development, and the ways in which different kinds of knowledge contribute. As the ‘new club of Paris’ would say, it is the challenge of developing with the unlimited resources which knowledge offers.

Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement - Communiqué of September 23, 2010

Following a meeting in London of a group of international community and university networks representing several thousand universities, professional bodies and civil society organisations - the Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios, Commonwealth Universities Extension and Engagement Network, Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research, Global Universities Network for Innovation, http://www.scie

Cultural Learning & Literacies at the University of Glasgow, 21 Sept, 2018

The presentation featured below was part of the seminar Cultural Learning & Literacies at the University of Glasgow, 21 Sept, 2018.

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