On the agenda – Week 9, 2012
What is on the agenda for higher education stakeholders all overthe world? Every week ScienceGuide presents you with a selection ofthe most important topics and items trending in social media.
Take 1 – R&D
@CERN:Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud
@Nature Magazine: The quest for the elusiveMajorana fermion may be over.
@Cameron Neylon: Quick notes in response toElsevier withdrawing support for the Research Works
Take 2 – Internationalization
@Karin Fischer: New report highlights trends ininternational student
@Alastair Blyth: Can internationalisation fostereconomic recovery? Be at OECD conference,
@Institute of International Education: MoreAmericans are going abroad for full
Take 3 – Policy
@OECDEdu: OECD countries have adopted dramatically differentstrategies for increasing higher education
@University of Berkeley: InternationalizingBrazil’s Universities: Creating Coherent National Policies Must Bea
@GlobalHigherEd: New World Bank report China2030 includes plenty on Chinese higher education, innovation
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: What are the views of Romney,Sanotorum, Gingrich, Paul on higher education and
@ScienceGuideEU: German universities need toopen their ivory towers to nontraditional students, Merkel’sexperts
@ScienceGuideEU: ‘Project bonds’ toleverage knowledge and research. ScienceGuide spoke with ECPresident
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