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 - R&D
@Scholarly Kitchen: The Black Market for Facebook "Likes," and What It Means for Citations and Alt-Metrics.
@CIHE: European Union links research grants to open access.
@Mark Graham: Data Transgression - "We increasingly reify [the Internet] as if it were a singular, invisible agency like God".
Take 2 - Students
@Folha: Saudi Arabian University Pays Big Bucks To Recruit Brazil's Best And Brightest.
@International Unit: UK - New rules on overseas students 'will cost universities billions'.
@OBHE: List ranks Chinese universities by prominent alumni.
Take 3 - Policy
@Stanford: Why you should quit your tech job and study humanities.
@Julie Harris: The 1st of OECD's skills blogs in lead up to launch: What should students learn in the 21st century?
@Lloyd Armstrong: As student loans grow, so does university leadership pay.
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: The unemployment myth - education systems plagued by falling standards and growing misalignment with the demand for skills.
@ScienceGuideEU: David Harel: "Turing was much more than a great scientist, he was a true visionary."