On the Agenda – Week 10, 2015
Take 1 –Education
How does #education funding influence economic #growth? http://t.co/GolU2fG66O
— UNU-WIDER (@UNUWIDER) March 5, 2015
The discouraging #humanities job market, in one vivid chart. http://t.co/ka80lFwdMx pic.twitter.com/EvC5BvrsPN
— Chronicle (@chronicle) March 5, 2015
Who’s the weaker sex? Women now make up the majority of university students around the world http://t.co/S3ERrwvkMr pic.twitter.com/nVySlCYcnj
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 5, 2015
Angry students protest against university reforms http://t.co/WoVd5MP0cE via @UniWorldNews #Netherlands #FinancialAid #StudentProtest
— The OBHE (@theobhe) March 5, 2015
Take 2 –Research
Distressing but important read: Devastating consequences of #Ebola outbreak on maternal health http://t.co/x7zx3o56k7 pic.twitter.com/x3tGDNCKIv
— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) March 6, 2015
For the upgraded LHC, even failure would be an fundamental discovery http://t.co/ub8XOWcXTY pic.twitter.com/BjtiZ2jOfp
— New Scientist (@newscientist) March 6, 2015
Nasa finds evidence of a vast ancient ocean on Mars http://t.co/208MuP2Mnh
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 6, 2015
Take 3 –Great Britain
[Political science] Teachers, not Nobel laureates, are the experts in how to teach science http://t.co/oNCB0AcDbS
— GuardianScienceBlogs (@guardiansciblog) March 6, 2015
Britain’s secret science powerhouse http://t.co/vx9hpzUxUu
— Telegraph Finance (@TeleFinance) March 2, 2015
The lack of foreign language skills among Britons cost the economy an estimated £59 billion or 3.5% of GDP in 2012 http://t.co/7WHXXAcy0M
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 4, 2015
Britain must back sectors where it already enjoys an advantage- @ChukaUmunna & @RobertoUnger write for @NewStatesman http://t.co/cfJN1FSv0N
— Labour BIS Team (@LabourBIS) March 3, 2015
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
Girls outperform boys in schools. but still shy away from maths and science, PISA figures show http://t.co/k8wq4vifXv
— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) March 5, 2015
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