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February 15, 2019
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Dr. Budd Hall gave a talk on Paulo Freire on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Special Issue of CONCEPT on February 14th and 15th, 2019. This was at the University of Huddersfield. For details … Continue reading
February 15, 2019
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A Talk by Dr. Budd Hall at the London headquarters of the Association of Commonwealth Universities February 12, 2019 At the invitation of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, Budd shared his observations about global inequalities in knowledge distribution and production. … Continue reading
February 1, 2019
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Background Unnat Bharat Ahiyaan (UBA) 2.0 was launched by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India in February 2018. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has set up a Subject Expert Group (SEG) on Curricular Reforms and Educational … Continue reading
January 29, 2019
by Dr. Budd Hall, UNESCO Co-Chair
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Budd paid a visit to Laval University, Canada’s oldest university on January 28 and 29, 2019 at the invitation of Professor Florence Piron. While the weather was cold, the welcome was very warm indeed. Budd met with Claude Savard, the … Continue reading
December 18, 2018
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In a first of its kind initiative, UNESCO India and Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) co-hosted two days meetings of all the ten UNESCO Chairs in India. The dates for the meeting were December 10th and December 11th respectively. The … Continue reading
November 15, 2018
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The Big Tent Consortium (a global network of universities and their community partners) has issued the ‘Global Communique-VIII’, as a call to action to its members on the Role of Universities in the Implementation of the UN SDGs. The French … Continue reading
September 20, 2018
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Prof. (Dr.) Madhura Y., Director – School of Architecture and Design, Manipal University Jaipur, Knowledge for Change (K4C) Hub Coordinator visited University of Victoria on September 19th, 2018. The discussions were focused on the interest in building the K4C Consortium … Continue reading
July 26, 2018
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Dr Budd Hall, our UNESCO Co-Chair joined Marjorie Mayo of Goldsmith’s College and Jude Fransman of the Open University for a round table on ‘Knowledge, Democracy and Hope’ at the SCUTREA Adult Education Conference on “Life Long Learning and the … Continue reading
July 12, 2018
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Over 300 delegates from around the world attended the Network for Adavancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (AESIS) Conference in Ottawa on June 14-15, 2018. The focus of the conference was ‘Finding shared approaches to assess, enable and … Continue reading
July 12, 2018
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The 2018 edition of the Living Knowledge Conference was hosted by the Corvinus Business School, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, from 30th May to 1st June. The Living Knowledge 8 Conference was aimed at academics, practitioners, activists, social innovators, research … Continue reading