:: ARTICLE

Community-Engaged Research: a step forward

In the last years, we are witnessing a strong emergence of diverse Community-Engaged Research programmes. Community-based research seeks to democratize knowledge creation by validating multiple sources of knowledge. An agreement to create a Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research was released at the end of the Community-University Exposition 2008.

:: ARTICLE

‘Comprehensible by June’? Art education and arts-based research in Ireland

In this article Gary Granville, Professor of Education in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland, reflects upon inherent dilemma in art education: the extent to which objective assessment criteria can be applied to subjective creative processes as well as upon the acceptance and usage of arts-based research methods in research...

:: INTERVIEW

Universities: locally relevant, internationally significant

The Director of the Office of Community-Based Research and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Global Studies (University of Victoria, Canada), Budd Hall, talked with GUNI about the new challenges for higher education in North America, such as equity, distribution of resources, globalization or sustainability. Prof. Hall also considers very important to...

:: GOOD PRACTICE

Good practice of the month: Opening educational resources in South Africa

The University of the Western Cape in South Africa has initiated a project of OpenCourseWare to give students and lecturers from the whole South African region free access to teaching resources. This makes it the first African university to form part of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, which represents an important event for the movement for participative...

:: NEWS AND EVENTS

IAU Conference on Higher Education and Research Addressing Local and Global Needs

The International Association of Universities (IAU) held its 13th General Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 15 to 18 July 2008 on the theme...

:: NEWS AND EVENTS

Asia and the Pacific Sub-Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

The second of the regional preparatory conferences for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education will be held in Macao SAR, China, from 24 to 26 September...

:: NEWS AND EVENTS

12th North American Higher Education Conference, Monterrey, 8-10 October

The Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, CONAHEC, organises the 12th North American Higher Education Conference on the theme of...