On the Agenda – Week 50, 2012

Take 1 – Majority World
@ICEFmonitor: Common credit transfer scheme for institutions in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Japan, China, Thailand and Korea.
@timeshighered: Brazil: Boom Times and Golden Goals
@Karenfischer: China’s ‘little emperors’ face academic expectations: 3/4 of middle-class parents expect children to get grad degrees
Take 2 – Digital Higher Education and Innovation
@Chronicle: New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses
@Barns: The top 4 most significant trends: 2012 the year in innovation
@avnetwork: Is lecture capture good or bad for higher education?
Take 3 – R&D
@Humanatstanford: Stanford scholar finds that Russia’s most infamous tsars weren’t so terrible after all
@guardianscience: Science and Christmas, a forgotten Victoriana romance
@MITnews: From ocean microbes to cats and milk, researcher uncovers surprising phenomena where biology meets fluid mechanics
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: Former Minister Jo Ritzen analyzed the real effects of cutting government funding for education
@ScienceGuideEU: Chile’s accreditation crunch
Meest Gelezen
'We stellen elkaar verkeerde vragen over ChatGPT'
VVD botst met minister en linkse partijen over loting en selectie
Tien kandidaten uit het beroepsonderwijs voor de Groeifondscommissie
Minister komt met wet- en regelgeving om internationale instroom te beperken
ChatGPT is extra teken aan een wand die zwakker wordt
