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Big Tent Communique VI final text

Posted October 2, 2015 - 17:48 by Chris Duke

[Please note: An edited and formatted version of the final text is available here.]

Call for comments/suggestions on the SECOND draft of the 6th Big Tent Communiqué

Posted August 4, 2015 - 10:39 by Chris Duke

Your critical feedback on this new Big Tent draft for the Catania Conference will be most welcome. So will any new thoughts related to the theme and earlier discussion.

Friends of PASCAL Association

Posted July 30, 2015 - 14:46 by Chris Duke

Following an initial founding meeting held in Melbourne in February this year a Friends of PASCAL Association was formed on 4 July 2015, and is registered in Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. This will be a valuable supplement to the work of the International Observatory. It sits very well with changes in governance arrangements under way with the Board, especially its new and wider concept of membership.

Big Tent – Draft 6th communique to discuss, finalise and release at the PASCAL Catania Conference in October.

Posted June 25, 2015 - 19:03 by Chris Duke

PASCAL is a founder and lead player in the Big Tent initiative started in 2010. Here is a draft towards a communique for our Catania Conference in October. Please try to read and work and comment so we can get the best and strongest possible outcome – one that will be heeded and help to make a difference. We want something that will not be easily ignored. The Pope's new and unequivocal Encyclical sets the bar pretty high!

Celebrating the life and work of Sir David Watson -Green Templeton College, Oxford 3 June 2015

Posted June 17, 2015 - 06:42 by Chris Duke

As PASCAL Website users and many members of PASCAL anyway well know, David was an outstanding person and a leading global-local advocate of university engagement and of useful and relevant education for the community and for society generally.

11th PASCAL Conference - Closing thoughts...

Posted December 10, 2013 - 11:18 by Chris Duke

Cities Learning Together showed that partners can collaborate productively around shared purposes. The outcome can be shared ownership and commitment to further bilateral and multilateral action. This comes from learning together in an open participatory way, where different parties contribute relevant authority and expertise from different kinds of experience.
 

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

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.

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