On the agenda – Week 35, 2014

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5 september 2014 | A new scoop for graphene, a new Chief Technology Officer Obama and a new EU-commissioner for Youth, Skills and Multiliguism. Read all about this and more on research and education in this week's 'on the agenda'.

Take 1 – Research

LERU universities on track with tenure track jobs – New paper sharing experiences setting up TT programmes http://t.co/9b7GPRCIYd #LERU

— LERU (@LERUnews) September 2, 2014

First graphene-based flexible display produced http://t.co/eubj8oOk9W

— Cambridge University (@Cambridge_Uni) September 5, 2014

Obama names @smithmegan ’86, SM ’88 as Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. http://t.co/sRy7W9RWsk pic.twitter.com/K1fjeBHAjq

— MIT (@MIT) September 5, 2014

Take 2 – Europe

Youth groups warn Juncker about scrapping education commissioner http://t.co/WzOTrHGAQN

— EurActiv (@EurActiv) September 5, 2014

http://t.co/enOlHRiYvf – Is Europe investing enough in research?

— WEF Tech Pioneers (@techpioneers) September 4, 2014

Take 3 – Education

China’s Education Gap: The school system serves to reinforce entrenched social exclusion. http://t.co/bVjTTMAhGz

— NYTimes China (@NYTimesChina) September 4, 2014

How the job of a teacher compares around the world http://t.co/6mIKzMcOyG

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 5, 2014

Elite Indian Universities are being told to abandon U.S.-style degrees: http://t.co/kOLoQBPZIl

— Chronicle (@chronicle) September 3, 2014

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

The new EU-Commissioner for Skills, Youth and Multilingualism will be a Belgian powerhouse http://t.co/HIHxRW9p7O

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) September 5, 2014