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  • On the agenda - Week 27, 2012

    - What is the impact of university mergers, female board member quotas and salary curbs? Scotland dares the experiment. Furthermore, in this week’s “On the agenda”: both Romney and Obama pledge to make overseas students’ lives easier and CERN explains what the news on the god particle experiments mean.

    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".