What is on the agenda for higher education stakeholders all over
the world? Every week ScienceGuide presents you with a selection of
the most important topics and items trending in social media.
Take 1 - Policy
@Nature: Greek
science on the brink.
@Jamshed Siddiqui: In India - Faculty shortage
may pose hurdle to four-year course plans.
@World Uni Rankings: Does Mars orbit the Earth,
or have falling numbers lowered Japanese university entrance
standards catastrophically?
Take 2 - R&D
@SEN:
Kepler finds 3 smallest exoplanets - 3 out of 100 billion+ planets
in our galaxy.
@A Hippo on Campus: A coffee per day keeps the
adenosine at bay.
@Università Bocconi: Financial Supervision and
Central Banking: The Improvements Which Backfired.
Take 3 - Digitalization
@AegiSite: MIT to build online education
platform: MIT will offer the same online learning experience to the
rest of the world as well.
@Doug
Ward: What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads.
@TechCrunch: BenchPrep Is CodeAcademy For Any
Subject, High School To Med School.