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New Knowledge Exchange Call in UK

Posted July 22, 2011 - 10:00 by Mike Osborne

The next Knowledge Exchange of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK will open from the 1st September 2011 until the 27th October 2011. The ESRC will again be running two schemes, the Follow on Fund scheme and a Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme.

This call is aimed at social science researchers at all stages of their career and at organisations in the business, public and civil society sectors, with the intention of encouraging dialogue and collaboration between these groups. 

Latest Issue of JACE - four articles on universities and regional development

Posted July 16, 2011 - 09:59 by Mike Osborne

The latest issue of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE 17.1) has just been published, and includes articles by PASCAL board members and associates.

2011 Talloires Network Leaders Conference - Building the Engaged University, Moving beyond the Ivory Tower

Posted June 23, 2011 - 21:33 by Chris Duke

Report to PASCAL on the 2011 Talloires Network Leaders Conference Building the Engaged University, Moving beyond the Ivory Tower, held at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) 13-16 June 2011

 

Talloires looking forward

PURE FM

Posted May 31, 2011 - 07:57 by Mike Osborne

After a very successful conference in Brussels on 19/20 May, we could not have imagined that our Belgian hosts would immediately create a radio station to celebrate the work of PURE, but here is the evidence.

A more serious full report can be found here.

 

PURE FM

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U-Multirank: Multi- dimensional Global ranking of Universities; a feasibility project.

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:44 by Mike Osborne

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website:

U-Map - a European classification of higher education institutions

Posted April 11, 2011 - 15:50 by Mike Osborne

U-Map is a project funded by the European Commission in which earlier work concerned with the European classification of higher education institutions is further developed and implemented. U-Map offers two tools to enhance transparency. ProfileFinder produces a list of higher education institutions (HEIs) that are comparable on the characteristics that have been selected. ProfileViewer gives an institutional activity profile that can used to compare three HEIs. U-Map is presented in demo-mode.

UNICREDS - How different models of higher education can benefit regional economic development

Posted February 9, 2011 - 18:25 by Mike Osborne

Our PURE project has amongst amongst its regions, Devon and Cornwall in the South West of England. Therefore we are very interested in the UNICREDS project, details of which are found at http://www.unicreds.eu/

The BENCHMARKING BLOG!

Posted November 1, 2010 - 15:02 by Chris Duke

Please enter the discussion here for any comments or suggestions and questions in connection with the 'Benchmarking Overview' paper circulated to the PURE community and drafted by Bruce Wilson and David Campbell.

Best practices in regional engagement of HEI’s in Flanders - May 2010

Posted July 6, 2010 - 07:53 by Jan Geens

Dear All.

The attached is a list of best practices organized by HEI’s in Flanders, Belgium, that we could gather by setting up the on-line benchmark questionnaire.

You will see that still some texts are in Dutch, sorry for that, but they will be translated in English by the end of August.

Best regards,
 
Jan

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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