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  • France voted for lectures in English after an intense debate, but the number of foreign students in Britain has severely fallen. Also in this week’s ‘on the agenda’ 3-D printing against hunger and fierce criticism of dissident lawyer on European HE and China.
    On the agenda
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    17 mei - Georgia Institute of Technology offers first complete MOOC Masters and British educators learned a lot in Shanghai. And what’s more… applying high-frequency electrical noise might turn you into a maths prodigy.
    photo by Rathenau Instuut
    13 mei - The British Education Secretary is making policy based on PR-commissioned opinion polls and University of Maastricht is ready to cook a cultured meat hamburger. Also ‘on the agenda’ this week, eScience shows that carnivorous plant throws out “junk” DNA.
    3 mei - Technology can “connect teachers to a genuine profession”, Andreas Schleicher shows. How do these genuine professionals cope with this ever-changing world where unemployment is the new standard?
    26 april - The Irish EU presidency prioritizes jobs and growth for its second half and California is paving the way for public funded Open Access. In the meantime forty-five mice and eight gerbils are being prepared to follow in Laika’s footsteps.