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
@The Scotsman: University mergers, principal
salary curbs, female board member quotas - Scottish Government to
radically shake-up the country's universities and colleges.
@Julie Harris: Using data to build better
education systems: Andreas Schleicher at TEDGlobal 2012.
@OBHE: Funding cuts divide Europe's universities.
Take 2 - Students
@CIHE: Upcoming US presidential elections: a
win-win for overseas students?
@Nature: Publishing in foreign languages.
@OECD
Education: UK cuts on 'Mickey Mouse' courses to increase HE
quality in funding overhaul.
Take 3 - R&D
@CERN:
CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs
boson. What does the news tell us?
@INSEAD: Switzerland, Sweden Are World's Most
Innovative Countries.
@InTechWeb: Virtual science libraries to be
launched in central Asia.
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: SteLA-students aim at tackling
the world's largest problems.
@ScienceGuideEU: Thomson Reuters bans 51
academic journals from impact factor ranking due to "anomalous
citation patterns".