On the agenda – Week 38, 2014

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26 september 2014 | Hillary Clinton unveils $600 million global female education plan, Indian spacecraft reaches Mars and the European celebration of Researchers' Night as well as the European Day of Languages. Read all about this and more in this week's 'On the agenda'.

Take 1–Education

Study finds that Canadian Muslim women are highly educated but underemployed #cdnpse http://t.co/wU1n7OVXaP

— Academica Top Ten (@AcademicaTopTen) September 25, 2014

Hillary Clinton unveils $600m global female education plan http://t.co/g18VuVUExU #highered

— Higher Education (@GdnHigherEd) September 25, 2014

New OECD webpage for internationally comparable data and analysis on education http://t.co/j6cW32RHUd <via @OECD_Edu @OECD>

— GlobalHigherEd (@GlobalHigherEd) September 25, 2014

Take 2 – Research

“Where the Scots have led, the English, Welsh and Northern Irish can follow” @ConorGearty says it’s time for a change http://t.co/ZwKnTrnCET

— LSE news (@LSEnews) September 25, 2014

New algorithm from @MIT_CSAIL can size up a neighborhood better than humans. http://t.co/sPj4sH82ie pic.twitter.com/6sABAByHOp

— MIT (@MIT) September 24, 2014

Indian Spacecraft Reaches Mars Orbit – India has defied the odds, and a shoestring budget, to field the first succ… http://t.co/g43djbpUHu

— Asian Scientist (@asianscientist) September 26, 2014

Take 3 – Europe

Tonight is European Researchers’ night! Release the scientist in you. See all the events http://t.co/CQ4rh8cwaw #ResearchersNight #IT2014EU

— IT EU Presidency (@IT2014EU) September 26, 2014

Today is the European Day of Languages! Contribute to the @Guardian‘s multilingual picture dictionary http://t.co/DLJMSCdCCv #EDlangs

— OpenEd Challenge (@OpenEdChallenge) September 26, 2014

5 years ago people thought “Europe didn’t do innovation”. We’ve come a long way. http://t.co/brvfO7PQWR #StartupEurope #UnConv14

— Neelie Kroes (@NeelieKroesEU) September 25, 2014

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

Will Juncker be able to save his candidates for the EC? Tibor Navracsicsis seems a dodgy prospect with a divided EPP http://t.co/BQ57YLHTYz

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) September 23, 2014

Obama goes MOOC. White House takes major initiative to promote “Open Education to Increase Awareness and Engagement” http://t.co/q59KTjbKaa

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) September 25, 2014