On the Agenda – Week 09, 2013

Take 1 – #ISTP2013
@Schleicher_edu: Teachers for the 21st Century: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching: Background report for International Teacher’s Summit
@arneduncan: Business leaders get it, just like parents do: Preschool is the smartest investment we can make
@fareedzakaria: Obama’s proposal to expand early-childhood education is vitally important for upward mobility
Take 2 – Students
@Universityworldnews: Bavaria to scrap tuition fees
@Esutwt: What can we do to enhance students’ representation in dictatorschip Belarus?
@yahoofinance: Since 1997, the total value of student loans has ballooned over 800%, from $92 billion to $833 billion
Take 3 – R&D
@SmithsonianMag: Dying stars could lead us to life: researchers devised a way to search for oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets
@AAUniversities: Starvation diet: A severe approach to slashing US spending bodes ill for the research enterprise.
@Metode_Eng: TedTalk on Deconstructing stereotypes: the myth of the (girl) scientist
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: TED prize for Indian Cloud-School
@ScienceGuideEU: English only doesn’t find you a job
Meest Gelezen
PVV de grootste partij: grote gevolgen voor hoger onderwijs
‘Verplicht Nederlandstalig hoger onderwijs raakt ook Nederlandse studenten’
Internationale onderzoekers voelen zich zondebokken aan Nederlandse universiteiten
CDA en NSC botsen over internationale studenten
Hbo, mbo en vo moeten doorstroom verbeteren
