On the Agenda – Week 28, 2013
Take 1 – Internationalization
@registrarism: Study Abroad Positively Impacts Personality, Study Says
@ianmulheirn: Five big hurdles for Universal Credit
@dr_davidson: The impact (or non-impact) of new Qatar leadership on universities and higher education
Take 2 – Skills
@academictopten: Computer science a surprising sector to experience skills gap
@OECD: American teens & high school grads basic skills “relatively weak” compared OECD counterparts
@jdwordsmith: The 7 Skills Students Must Have For The Future
Take 3 – Research
@MIT: MIT researchers discover a new phenomenon that could lead to new types of lasers and sensors
@EADI: Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: Insights from Around the World
@plosone: Music type and tone change walkers’ stride and speed, even when the beat is the same
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: Humanities graduates are economic assets, an Oxford study shows
@ScienceGuideEU: How to feed 9 billion people in 2050? Wageningen University looks beyond pesticides and new crops. What about eating insects?
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