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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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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:

National Strategies for Implementing Life Long Learning (LLL): an International Perspective

This Hot Topic paper returns to a central theme for PASCAL, which is the development and implementation of lifelong learning.    Unlike earlier HTs on the theme, Jarl Bengtsson is concerned less with the concept of lifelong learning but much more with those factors at national level which need to be addressed if substantial progress is to be made in making a reality of the widespread policy commitments which are in place in most EU countries and amongst OECD member countries around the world.

Creative City-Regions & the Role of their Creative Universities

Over the last decade the University of Salford has responded to the national and global challenges in quite a unique way.  This reflects the particular academic strength of its staff and the situation in which it found itself in the middle of the late nineties.  This strategy, developed in the light of a changing environment, focuses in particular on its development of Academic Enterprise

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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