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Today, September 15, is International Democracy Day. The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to this effect in 2007, focusing on the growing significance of democracy in the world today. This year, the UN is focusing on celebrating the … Continue reading →

  In an increasingly uncertain world, the constant is the change. Most ‘gurus’ of the future financial markets have begun to focus on risk-taking in uncertain and unpredictable world ahead. Not only the standards of finance are changing, the world … Continue reading →

Civil society has led the charge over the last 30 years drawing the world’s attention to the grand challenges, the big issues and the deep crises that we face as humans amongst the other life forms on the planet we … Continue reading →

During the past decade, the most fascinating phenomenon of human demography has been massive migration of populations from rural to urban areas. This migration has been most prominent in the Asia-Pacific region where more than half a billion people have … Continue reading →

The World Congress of Comparative Education Societies that met recently in Buenos Aires Argentina June 24-28, 2013 provided an opportunity to reflect on the importance of the contributions of the late Paulo Freire, the remarkable Brazilian intellectual who changed the … Continue reading →

June 1-8 brought 8,000 Canadian and International academics mostly from the Humanities and the Social Sciences to the University of Victoria, in the city of Victoria in British Columbia.  The Congress of  the Humanities and Social Sciences, (this year’s title … Continue reading →

This was the theme of the 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education. Convened by GUNI (www.guninetwork.org) in partnership with a dozen regional and international networks, the conference in Barcelona during May 13-15, 2013 attracted 350 delegates from 60+ countries. … Continue reading →

Budd’s Blog I am shifting early in the morning from London to Barcelona to begin to prepare for the GUNi conference and wanted to share some thoughts based on some of the goings on that I have been part of … Continue reading →

“One central aspect of the social responsibility of universities is the development of productive and responsible citizens. Encouraging broad-based participation in civil society and the development of skills and attitudes to do so is of central importance to higher education”. … Continue reading →

From time to time, it is helpful to remind ourselves of the names of some of the great names of scholar –activists who have passed among us and then departed. I had the honour of attending the 10th Anniversary of … Continue reading →