Category: In the News

Indonesia, is one of the countries who has shown exemplary commitment to Community University Engagement. The higher education in the country has been extremely accommodating towards integration of community engagement practices in the regular academic curriculum. This has been majorly because of … Continue reading →

The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi), an international higher education network, was created in 1999, within the framework the UNITWIN / UNESCO Chairs Programme, by UNESCO, UNU and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). It encourages higher education institutions to redefine their role, embrace this process of transformation … Continue reading →

Professor Andrew Petter, President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada (which hosted the C2UExpo, 2017) delivered the closing address at the conference on May 5, 2017. C2UExpo, this year, emerged as a stimulating gathering of academics, community … Continue reading →

Prof. Henry Brimmer, faculty member in Michigan State University’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations has developed an exciting program that brings students from around the world to collaboratively tackle an advertising issue generated by a business wishing to expand … Continue reading →

UNESCO Bangkok’s new publication is now online! Together with experts from the Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-Net), UNESCO Banglok launched a two-year project to assess professional advancement policies and practices of higher education teaching personnel in Asia and the Pacific. … Continue reading →

Dramatic changes in the ecosystem for international development are now pressing civil society organizations (CSOs) to invest more in knowledge to remain significant players. While the need for creative thinking and experimentation is greater than ever, there is still very … Continue reading →

People’s Knowledge Collective, a cross-theme working group at Coventry University, UK, introduce their new book ‘People’s Knowledge and Participatory Action Research: Escaping the White-walled Labyrinth’. ‘Even the walls are white’ observed Leonard Harris, a black man navigating the ‘labyrinth’ of the … Continue reading →

Community-engaged Research (CER) at the University of Victoria (UVic) has made a significant impact in our local and global community in almost all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals at varying levels (i.e. micro, messo, macro).  Students have been central … Continue reading →

We have recently received a book curated by Florence Piron, an anthropologist and ethicist at the Université Laval in Quebec, Samuel Regulus, a Haitian anthropologist who is now professor at the Université d’État d’Haïti and Marie Sophie Dibounje Madiba, chief … Continue reading →

Nous venons de recevoir un livre dirigé par Florence Piron, anthropologue et éthicienne de l’Université Laval (Québec), Samuel Regulus, anthropologue haïtien qui enseigne à l’Université d’État d’Haïti et Marie Sophie Dibounje Madiba, responsable du Centre de documentation du CERDOTOLA (Centre … Continue reading →