On the agenda – Week 34, 2014

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29 augustus 2014 | Harvard, Yale and Princeton could afford to make tuition free. Also in this week’s ‘on the agenda’: With proper credit for sharing Open Data, science would accelerate and China’s independent scholars who voice their opinions will never win but keep fighting nonetheless.

Take 1 – Tuition Fees

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton could afford to make tuition free: http://t.co/9EcPZB6Qxs

— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 26, 2014

University tuition fee rise has not deterred poorer students from applying http://t.co/AUlxgY4nTG

— Guardian Students (@gdnstudents) August 13, 2014

Report by #EUCommission offers an overview of #tuitionfee policy changes in 9 countries since 1995 http://t.co/ivzpDcfn1n #higheredu

— ICEF Monitor (@icefmonitor) July 31, 2014

Take 2 – Open Data

With proper credit for sharing #opendata, science would accelerate http://t.co/QzwBXHWfMg @timohannay at @WIRED #openscience #itisnthardtodo

— Open Science (@openscience) August 28, 2014

WOW (in a good way) “NIH Tells Genomic Researchers: ‘You Must Share Data'” http://t.co/jCVXnzVt8P h/t @F1000Research #opendata

— Graham Steel (@McDawg) August 28, 2014

One of the things on our new homepage is this video about the need for open data. We love Greg Petsko’s passion! https://t.co/G0wHGh99xF

— F1000Research (@F1000Research) August 28, 2014

Take 3 – China

China’s independent scholars & journalists who voice opinions: “They never win but they keep on fighting” – Dai Qing http://t.co/8kpTX0eJn5

— Yojana Sharma (@yojanasharma) August 29, 2014

The crisis in China’s medical education. http://t.co/1SLicxbsp1

— richard horton (@richardhorton1) August 29, 2014

The Ice Bucket challenge goes viral in Asia with the help of Weibo, China’s Twitter http://t.co/wAxc0It76S

— Gigaom (@gigaom) August 28, 2014

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

For tiny fractions of a second, quartz glass can take on metallic properties, when it is illuminated be a laser pulse http://t.co/nxqhdwQNih

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) August 27, 2014

MIT study shows that the savings from healthier air might make up for the costs of carbon-reduction policies http://t.co/X4cNxcpVYr

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) August 26, 2014