Blogs

Please find below details of the first three books in a new PASCAL book series on Universities and Lifelong Learning being published shortly by Manchester University Press. The series editor is PASCAL Director for Europe, Professor Mike Osborne of the University of Glasgow, and we are very pleased that so many of our associates and principals are involved in the project.

This work was inspired in the first instance by the PURE project, and a number of other books will follow.

The latest report from the Grattan Institute Cities program [featured below and attached] argues that building more homes in established suburbs and improving urban transport could substantially boost productivity and safeguard national prosperity.

Cities are shaped by where people live, where they work and how they get around. When these three things are in tune with the structure of the economy, cities work efficiently to drive growth and create opportunities.

May Day rallies have gained fresh energy in Europe this year; signs of times to come? Here are my reflections from the month gone by:

Having been in South Africa last week I was alerted to the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, and was pleased to see that it includes amongst its work a project on Transformation in Higher Education, which examines of ''how the concept of a ‘learning region’ may be applied to the Gauteng City-Region (GCR), through the institutional vehicle of the region’s higher education institutions''. More is found through the preceding hotlinks.

The Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosted an international conference on "Social Responsibility in Higher Education" April 16-17.  They brought together some of the best known women and men in the world for two days of dialogue and discussion.