On the Agenda – Week 17, 2014

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1 mei 2014 | There is a growing demand for data skills, but higher education might miss the mark. Also in this week’s ‘on the agenda’: British higher education fundraising workforce must double, if not triple, by 2022 and do oil dollars buy you a top position in the CWTS Leiden Ranking?

Take 1 – Big Data and Education

@vandergoes: Withered inBloom. Large data analysis project InBloom for American education will be terminated

@ICTscoop: Demand for data skills: Is higher education missing the mark?

@C21U: 4 Big Data challenges universities face

Take 2 – Funding

@HEFCE: British higher education fundraising workforce must double, if not triple, by 2022

@Naturenews: Tech corps funding more research, but not enough to fill vacuum left by giants like Bell Labs

@ahrcpress: Explore ‘Feeding the Brain’ – a Visualising Research winner which shows how funding is apportioned across the UK

Take 3 – Rankings

@MaastrichtU: Maastricht University maintains 6th place in best young universities in the world

@wowter: Oil dollars buy top positions in international collaboration of CWTS Leiden Ranking

@ChrisParrTHE: East Asian universities continue to lead a ranking of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

@ScienceGuideEU: The production and publication of academic knowledge reveals a staggering amount of inequality

@ScienceGuideEU: “The concern is that MOOCs do not provide an educational experience that is equivalent to a traditional classroom.” This leads to a ‘wait and see’ approach