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Should students from poorer homes be admitted to university with lower grades?

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 21, 2015 - 18:00

The interim report of the Commission on Widening Access to HE in Scotland has recently been published together with a summary of evidence submitted.  The report, the summary of evidence, and my own submission on behalf of  the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) can be found at this link. 

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Our hearts go out to all victims of terror

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 15, 2015 - 12:29

On behalf of PASCAL we post below a response made by our colleague Chris Duke on the campaigning website 38 Degrees with which we are sure that PASCAL subscribers will wish to echo. We could add many more examples of terrorist acts even in the last week, such as that of the 224 Russians most likely murdered over the Sinai desert, and as Chris says our hearts are with all victims of such atrocities.

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The TEF(LON) - will it stick?

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 9, 2015 - 12:47

A much awaited Green Paper has been published today in the UK entitled, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice. The press release from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills can be found at this link.

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Call for papers - Special Issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development: Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on November 5, 2015 - 11:53

*** Deadline for submission of papers: 15 December 2015 ***

This special issue will focus on strategic knowledge-based development frontiers in employment, migration, health, food security and climate change, and cultural engagement. These global issues pose problems at every level, down to micro-districts. They are strategic because what happens will determine the kind of cities and regions in which we will live. They are on the frontier because they generate conflict or could lead to greater co-operation. And they are critical to knowledge-based development because we do not know how to solve them; indeed, we do not even know how to cope with them very well, unsolved.

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Launch of the CR&DALL Working Paper Series

Submitted by Muir Houston on November 3, 2015 - 10:04

The first edition of the CR&DALL Working Paper Series (WP101/2015) has been launched with a paper by Paul Benneworth (CHEPS, University of Twente) and Mike Osborne (CR&DALL, University of Glasgow) entitled Understanding universities and entrepreneurship education: towards a comprehensive future research agenda.