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

Submitted by Chris Duke on June 17, 2015 - 05:42

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.

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Spare Rib magazine goes online for the first time

Submitted by Sophie McIvor on June 12, 2015 - 11:35

Few titles sum up an era and a movement like Spare Rib. With its commitment to challenging the status quo, Spare Rib battled oppression and gave a voice to the struggles, discussions and debates of diverse groups of women over the 21 years it was in print (1972-1993).

From today, every edition of Spare Rib magazine will be available to be viewed by anyone online for free.

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Integrating migrants into the labour market: a win-win situation for both migrants and society

Submitted by Roberta Piazza on June 12, 2015 - 06:34
Jun 25 2015
Europe/Brussels
European Economic and Social Committee
Jacques Delors building, Room JDE 62, Rue Belliard 99
Brussels

You will see that there is an open invitation to attend this event (which I have inserted below) which relates to one of the principal strands of this year's PASCAL Conference in Catania.

The Labour Market Observatory (LMO) and the Group on Immigration and Integration (IMI) of the European Economic and Social Committee have the pleasure to invite you to their conference on “Integrating migrants into the labour market: a win-win situation for both migrants and society”.

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Talk Shop – Making sense of the big issues, together

Submitted by Martin Yarnit on June 9, 2015 - 22:10

The British  general election turned into another dialogue of the deaf, with voters reduced to their usual role of passive observer while the politicians honed their skills in question evasion. But there is an alternative: Martin Yarnit and Perry Walker report on a new experiment in voter democracy in Liverpool.  It’s called Talk Shop and this time it is the voters doing the talking.

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Tecnológico de Monterrey becomes next PASCAL Centre

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on June 9, 2015 - 08:54

The Board of PASCAL is honoured to announce that Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Wikipedia) has become the next PASCAL Centre, the first in a Spanish-speaking country.