Economic Development

Education Systems in ASEAN+6 Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Educational Issues

The Asia-Pacific region is well known for its diversity in cultures, languages, historical backgrounds, political systems, and development stages. Despite this great diversity, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus its 6 major country partners -- Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea -- (ASEAN+6) share similar visions of educational development.

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Friday, 9 May, 2014

Scotland-Malawi Partnership: "Global Gathering"

An international evening of dinner and stories from Africa and India. Win great raffle prizes and find out more about our development projects in Malawi and India and how to get involved!

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Tuesday, 22 April, 2014

Investigating Links in Achievement and Deprivation in Northern Ireland: Is there a similar pattern in Scotland?

You are invited to attend a seminar on ‘Investigating Links in Achievement and Deprivation- the ILiAD project in Northern Ireland: is there a similar pattern in Scotland?’ from 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm on Thursday 8 May 2014, room to be confirmed in the St Andrew’s Building at the University of Glasgow.

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Monday, 21 April, 2014

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - April 2014

The Talloires 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.

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Friday, 11 April, 2014

Urban Big Data Centre - Update

We have previously reported some details of  ESRC Big Data Phase 2, and in this posting we provide a little more detail the elements that link most directly to the previous work of PASCAL at the University of Glasgow.

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Monday, 17 March, 2014

Higher education and 'The world beyond 2015'

Please find details featured below of a Special Report from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, in conjunction with World University News, on HE and the World Post-2015.

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Thursday, 13 March, 2014
A panel discusion at the University of North Bengal in Siliguri

Strengthening Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions in India

In Siliguri (West Bengal), Chandigarh (Punjab) and Delhi during the period 3-7 March 2014, PASCAL Director Mike Osborne was very pleased to be part of three events concerned with strengthening community engagement in HE in India.

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Wednesday, 12 March, 2014

Financial Literacy: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

This timely workshop - of interest and significance to those in the general sphere of education as well as to those attempting to struggle directly with the machinations of modern-day economic survival - offers three separate approaches from thinkers in the field and then opens out the deliberations for discussion of the themes raised.

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Wednesday, 5 March, 2014

Cedefop Newsletter no. 39 - February 2014

Experts from international organisations including ILO, Unesco, Unitar, the World Bank and universities, as well as country delegates, met at the 2nd Cedefop/OECD Green skills forum in Paris, on 14 February, to discuss how environmental policies can successfully be implemented in combination with policies for job creation and social inclusion.

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Tuesday, 4 March, 2014

Call for Submissions: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2014)!

The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

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Monday, 24 February, 2014

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