Members

PASCAL draws its membership from regional authorities and universities. Below is a list of current members.

PASCAL’s
expertise offers members a wide range of benefits in accessing current thinking and research, opportunities to participate in ground-breaking research and to showcase recent developments. PASCAL is pleased to offer bespoke programmes of work tailored to the priority interests of each member. Find full details of the benefits members can receive here.

REGIONS

Skills Development Scotland, UK

As Scotland's recently formed skills organisation, Skills Development Scotland brings together four partner bodies with a shared vision to drive forward real, positive and sustained change in Scotland's skills performance. Through this move Scotland now has a dynamic, forward-looking organisation which will deliver comprehensive information, advice and guidance for careers and learning as well as extensive support for skills development. MORE..

Kent County, England, UK

With a population exceeding 1.5 million including the distinct Medway Towns authority within the County boundaries, Kent like Essex is heavily influenced by its location in the South-East of England and adjacent to the London metropolis (which has from time to time expanded into and taken territory and population from historic Kent). Socio-economic conditions vary, with the ‘London factor’ pushing up incomes especially in the north-west, and pockets of quite serious poverty in some old industrial and more formerly more popular coastal communities. MORE..

 

Regione Puglia, Italy

Puglia, along the Adriatic south-east coast of Italy, is one of the largest of the country’s 20 regions, with a population of over four million. Its five provinces contain a number of major and minor centres, among them Bari and Brindisi. It enjoys good transport systems, and a diverse SME-based regional economy, but wishes to enhance its innovation systems. Problems include a brain drain and other needs of young people, poverty, and a gender gap in employment, where 68% of the workforce is male. The five universities in the region include one private institution and one of only three polytechnics in Italy. MORE..


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Greater Melbourne Region in the Australian State of Victoria is the State’s capital city, and the main administrative, industrial and commercial centre of Victoria. It has a strong industrial, cultural and sporting heritage, and is Australia’s 2nd largest city. Its 3.6 million people comprise the broad ethnic base of a truly multicultural society. Its eight universities (some ‘dual sector’ providing technical and further or TAFE as well as higher education) with in addition a number of separate TAFE institutes, represent an extensive higher education and skills system supporting R&D and innovation. MORE..



Jamtland, Sweden


The Jämtland region with a population of 127,000 occupies the area of central Sweden and comprises eight municipalities (Berg, Bräck, Krokom, Härjedalen, Ragunda,Strömsund, Åre and à –stersund). Östersund is the largest municipality with a population of 58, 200. Jämtland region covers an area of 49, 343 square kilometers, 12 per cent of Sweden's total area and is the third largest province in Sweden. Generally however the region is sparsely populated with extensive forest areas and mountains on the Norwegian border to the west. MORE..

UNIVERSITIES

National University of Lesotho, South Africa

The origins of the National University of Lesotho go back to April 8, 1945, when a Catholic University College was founded at Roma by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Southern Africa. The decision to establish the National University of Lesotho on, the Lesotho (Roma) campus site of the former U.B.L.S. was taken on October 20, 1975. Today the National University of Lesotho is a growing institution striving to meet the needs of the nation, through producing competent and skilled graduates who can easily take up the call to assist in the development of Lesotho. MORE..

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Today, The University of Auckland is the largest university in New Zealand, hosting over 40,000 students on five Auckland campuses, with a School of Theology, and eight faculties representing each of its main disciplines: Arts, Business and Economics, Creative Arts and Industries, Education, Engineering, Law, Medical and Health Sciences, and Science. Almost all teaching staff engage in research which attempts to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding, and around 5000 students are enrolled for postgraduate studies, 1200 of whom are undertaking doctorates. MORE..

University of Catania, Italy



The University of Catania is located in Catania, Italy, and was founded in 1434. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily. MORE..

University of Pecs, Hungary

The Faculty of Adult Education and HRD and its Regional Lifelong Learning Research Centre is an integral part of the University of Pécs (27.000 students; 3000 employees), the second biggest university in Hungary.The university has 10 faculties and operates a Faculty of Adult Education and HRD that has a 30 years experience in researching the education and training of adults. The Faculty is one of the outstanding educational and research centres in Hungarian higher education in the field of adult education, human resource management, cultural management and lifelong learning. MORE..

University of Stirling, Scotland

Located at the foot of the Ochil Hills, the University of Stirling was opened in 1967. The brand new campus was built on an 18th Century estate consisting of some 310 acres of stunning countryside. Lying two miles from the Royal Burgh of Stirling, the University's location and history provide some clue as to what makes Stirling that bit different from other UK universities. Stirling offers a programme of study of unrivalled flexibility and choice, based around a semester system. It is possible to start on one degree programme and graduate in an entirely different subject, something about half of our students take advantage of. MORE..


University of East London, UK

The University of East London is a dynamic university at the cutting edge of cultural and technological change. In an increasingly competitive and highly skilled economy, it is developing programmes of teaching and research that are practical, innovative and relevant, meeting the needs of students and industry alike. UEL is now recognised as one of the UK’s leading modern universities, with researchers actively engaged in work of national and international importance across a wide range of disciplines. According to the results of the most recent government research assessment exercise, UEL is among the top ten post-1992 universities in the UK for research. MORE..

University of Zagreb, Croatia

The University of Zagreb (1669) is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe. Ever since its foundation, the University has been continually growing and developing and now consits of 29 faculties, three art academies and the Centre for Croatian Studies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students the University is the strongest teaching institution in Croatia. MORE..

University of Aegean, Greece

The University of the Aegean is an international research oriented university. It is an inspiring, innovative, socially committed institution situated in the Aegean Archipelago, the ancient cradle of knowledge. The UoA embodies the concept of a 'university- network'- a network of schools and departments, dispersed over five Aegean islands: Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes and Syros. The challenge of academic and administrative decentralization has resulted in imaginative new approaches in academic practice and has enhanced the sense of unity within the academic community of each campus. MORE..

University of Limerick, Ireland



The University of Limerick (UL) was established in 1972, as the National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick, and became a university by statute in 1989. The university was the first established since the founding the Republic of Ireland in 1922, followed later in the same day, by Dublin City University. The university is located along the River Shannon on a 200 acre site in the National Technological Park at Castletroy. The university currently has in excess of 11,000 full time undergraduate students and 1,500 part time students. MORE..

University of Salford, Manchester, UK

The University of Salford has been developing over 100 years, into a dynamic and cosmopolitan institution with a reputation for real-world teaching and groundbreaking research. A historic tradition of innovative thinking and commercial success means that the university is widely regarded as one of the UK’s most enterprising universities. Teaching programmes are linked to the real world of work, with Salford being one of the first universities to offer ‘sandwich degrees’. Many programmes are designed in conjunction with employers, giving graduates a head start. 3 out of 4 undergraduate programmes offer a placement year giving students a chance to work elsewhere in the UK or overseas. MORE..


University of Tasmania, Tasmania

The University of Tasmania was officially founded on 1st January 1890, by an Act of the Colony's Parliament and was only the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia. The notion of partnerships characterises work at the University of Tasmania. A primary partnership is between staff and students who work together in the areas of core business for the University: achieving excellence in teaching and learning and research. MORE..


University of Botswana, South Africa

The Mission of the University of Botswana is to improve economic and social conditions for the Nation while advancing itself as a distinctively African university with a regional and international outlook. Specifically, the University will provide excellence in the delivery of learning to ensure society is provided with talented, creative and confident graduates; advance knowledge and understanding through excellence in research and its application; improve economic and social development by high impact engagement with business, the professions, government and civil society. MORE..

 


Universus-CSEI, Italy

Located throughout the whole of the Apulia region with centres in Bari, Lecce, Brindisi, Foggia, Taranto and Corato, Universus aims at being a place to promote the "pleasure of lifelong learning", freeing creativity, enhancing the talents of individuals, stimulating a passion and sense of responsibility for the common good, encouraging both individual and collective planning ability. MORE..

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University is among the nation’s premier regional public universities. Located in one of the most dynamic regions of the country, NIU is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with a diverse and international student body of more than 25,000. The university has grown into a world-class university that attracts students from around the globe while still primarily serving Illinois. The university is deeply committed to preparing teachers and providing an excellent and affordable higher education to Illinois families, some of whom have never sent a child to college before. MORE..

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is one of Australia’s original and leading educational institutions, producing some of Australia’s most employable graduates. As an innovative, global university of technology, with its heart in the city of Melbourne, RMIT has an international reputation for excellence in work-relevant education and high quality research, and engagement with the needs of industry and community. With more than 60,000 students studying at RMIT campuses in Melbourne and regional Victoria, in Vietnam, online, by distance education, and at partner institutions throughout the world, the University is one of the largest in the country. MORE..


University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is one of the world's top 100 universities. By continuing to invest in internationally excellent research and by providing an outstanding learning environment for talented students from all backgrounds our aim is not only to maintain this position, but to improve upon it, thereby retaining our status as one of the select number of institutions which are regarded as being the best in the world. MORE..

 


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