On the Agenda – Week 06, 2014

Take 1 – Student Loans
@KarinaUfert: Report: Government likely to underestimate value of student loans that will never be paid back
@pewresearch: 86% of Millennials with a college degree and student loans say school is worth the price
@SteveBesley: That’s a pretty blunt summary in today’s PAC Report on student loans
Take 2 – Internationalization
@britishcouncil: The UK can’t sit back, it must go to India
@perezparedes: The Future of Higher-Education Internationalization
@CSRresources: Is India Ready to Welcome its Foreign Students as a Part of its Internationalization of Higher Education?
Take 3 – R&D
@Cambridge_uni: Cambridge cracks open ‘black box’ of embryo development and rewrites the textbooks
@UniofOxford: Quitting smoking linked to improved mental health. Size of effect equal to taking antidepressants
@Liu_university: Stress in the family can affect children’s immune systems
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: A decline of confidence in all social institutions is looming. Lord Nicholas Stern, President of the British Academy, thinks humanities and social sciences are the solution
@ScienceGuideEU: Will the universities of Belarus join the Bologna Process in 2015, or will they be banned for another 3 years?
Meest Gelezen
Bekostiging per student in het hbo en wo gaat dalen
NS onderzoekt financiële prikkels om studenten uit de spits te weren
Fel debat over internationalisering tekent zich af in hoger onderwijs
VVD ruilt kennisgeld Groeifonds in voor fossiel belastingvoordeel
De student als consument maakt vrouwelijke docenten extra kwetsbaar
