Dr Budd Hall, from the University of Victoria, in Canada, will share his expertise on knowledge democracy – an area he has been working on since the early 1970s – at the ACU headquarters in London on Tuesday 12 February, ...

The ACU hosted a talk today on a new UNESCO initiative, led by two ACU Engage Community members, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by building knowledge societies.

Dr Rajesh Tandon and Professor Budd Hall, joint-UNESCO Chair ...

Cities for our Future is a new global competition, encouraging students and young people to find ...

Education ministers will consider the role of universities in combating climate change and building resilience, as part of discussions at the Tags: development, Commonwealth, education, CCEM

How can universities address both local and global demands to make a positive contribution to society? A new report, launched by the

On Monday 12 September, the ACU and the University of Nairobi convened an international conference, focusing on the SDGs and ...

The sixth annual ACU Commonwealth Summer School, hosted by the University of Rwanda from 13-20 August 2016, saw 39 delegates from 14 Commonwealth countries discuss how universities should implement the Sustainable Development Goals ...

The Commonwealth iLibrary is offering ACU members a 15% discount on ...

Is higher education up to solving the challenges of the world beyond 2015? This is the question the ACU set out to answer before the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the

The seventh annual Publishers for Development (PfD) conference – which took place in London, UK, yesterday – explored five core ...

In February 2015, the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) convened a meeting in Kuala Lumpur to consider their policy paper on doctoral education in Commonwealth Africa. As one of CTEF’s partners, The Association of ...

The Association of Commonwealth Universities will take part in Going Global this year, an annual forum for education ...

Commonwealth education ministers meet every three years, to discuss key education issues, identify areas for action, and share knowledge and good practice. The next Tags: development, Commonwealth, education, Beyond 2015

Universities must do more to link their research with the real problems confronting their country. That was the message propounded by Dr Sania Nishtar at Going Beyond 2015 in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week   ...

On Tuesday 9 September between 1000-1200h BST (1400-1600h in Pakistan), the ACU along with the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) and the Commonwealth Students' Association will host a live online web chat where we will explore ...

The 2014 Publishers for Development conference took place in Oxford recently under the theme Research Matters for Developing Countries. The conference was attended primarily by academic librarians, international publishers, ...

Dr Joan Dassin, the founding Executive Director of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP), delivered an ACU Perspectives talk in which she demonstrated how providing higher education opportunities for socially-conscious ...

Dr Joan Dassin will deliver the fifth talk in the ACU Perspectives speaker series on Wednesday 18 June 2014, 5.30 pm (talk to commence at 6.00 pm), at ...

The Seychellois Minister for Environment and Energy, H.E. Professor Rolph Payet, delivered the keynote speech titled ‘Will the world exist in 2113?’ at the third

UniPID successfully organised the second DocLinks Summer School - hosted at the University of Helsinki between 2-5 July 2013 - bringing together African and European doctoral students from various disciplines under the theme of &lsquo ...