On the Agenda – Week 41, 2013

Take 1 – Youth Unemployment
@TWFReview: Youth Unemployment after the Financial Crisis: ‘Quo Vadimus’?
@leftpalm: Global Lost Generation: Youth unemployment ‘Epidemic‘ how financial crisis set back an entire generation of workers
@jhwordsmith: youth unemployment around the world: An infographic
Take 2 – Democracy
@politicalspike: A ‘depressing display of the death of politics’: Political parties failed to promote new ideas & offer fresh choice
@LSEpoliticsblog: The decline of the political party: What comes after?
@LondonBschool: Technology will make organisations less hierarchical, more decentralised and more democratic, says Costas Markides
Take 3 – R&D
@jasonelsom: Children with regular bedtimes less likely to misbehave, research shows
@MIT: Finding could lead to self-healing materials that repair incipient damage before it has a chance to spread
@maxplanckpress: Soup, draught beer, sea trout &…. a Nobel Prize: not a bad week for Prof. Higgs
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: MOOCs should be validated through the ‘informal qualification’ route, says EU President, Education Minister Pavalkis
@ScienceGuideEU: The world’s research universities intensify collaboration with joint ‘constitution’. 1st step to a ‘Global Council’?
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