On the agenda – week 33, 2013
Take 1 – Internationalization
@ConversationUK: not only do Western universities open campuses globally, emerging countries open them up here too.
@thePIENews: Hungary goes international and offers 2.000 scholarships to Asian students.
@tsiligiris: an in depth study of destination choice Taiwan.
Take 2 – India
@EADI: read about the Indian calorie-paradox. Hoe do rapid economic growth and rising undernourishment go together?
@uniworldnews: political uproar as India’s Supreme Court ruled that caste-based quotas don’t have to be upheld for specialised teaching positions.
@oatp: India has launched a new learning repository for open educational resources.
Take 3 – Innovation
@mims: Google’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists.
@timkastelle: In the future there will be no innovation without cocreation.
@MP_Innovation: stunning visualization of scientific collaborations around the world by Canadian data scientist Olivier Beauchesne.
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: international Law Professors build up pressure on U.N. to end immunity. Cases of Haiti and Srebrenica are telling.
@ScienceGuideEU: UK Universities and Science Minister David Willetts is keen to embrace much more foreign students in future.
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