On the Agenda – Week 12, 2015

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20 maart 2015 | Linkedin is making efforts to help colleges with their alumni policy, LSE students stage protest at 'profit-driven education', Ukraine joins Horizon 2020, ten tips for choosing an academic chair and in the United States, students have to work overnight to pay for college. This week's On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Education

LinkedIn is expanding its efforts to help colleges keep in touch with students and alumni: http://t.co/1LJKmgg3cj

— Chronicle (@chronicle) March 19, 2015

LSE students stage occupation in protest at ‘profit-driven education’ http://t.co/OFYH0wTIp2

— Guardian Education (@GuardianEdu) March 18, 2015

International students forced to queue in their thousands to collect visas http://t.co/71cgZpQAdG via @Guardian #UK #Immigration #HigherEd

— The OBHE (@theobhe) March 19, 2015

Mapping the Landscape: Accreditation and the International Dimensions of U.S. Higher Education, http://t.co/i8SDCiJ0nh

— IDP Database (@IDPDRIE) March 20, 2015

Take 2 –Research

via @EU_Commission Ukraine joins Horizon 2020 #h2020 to work with #EU in #Science and research http://t.co/Mdu2YdxO3c

— Innovation Union (@innovationunion) March 20, 2015

China’s Yutu rover was the first thing to land on the Moon since 1976. Here’s what it found http://t.co/mwSmPtgZV3 pic.twitter.com/0KcswHv0H1

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 19, 2015

10 tips for choosing an academic chair http://t.co/kfbzMceaGO pic.twitter.com/j3ejkbtwsy

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) March 20, 2015

Your entirely underwhelming solar eclipse photos http://t.co/uaYXlvewga

— Guardian Science (@guardianscience) March 20, 2015

Take 3 –USA

Working nights and going to class during the day — the realities of paying for college http://t.co/wLdGDtyTGb pic.twitter.com/FH4qCw94UT

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 20, 2015

Whatever you do, don’t tell Florida why it’s going to be underwater someday. By @StocktonSays. http://t.co/jLzzBmdT9r

— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) March 17, 2015

Ayn Rand comes to U.N.C.: @JedediahSPurdy on a political crackdown http://t.co/TtZhCIU42C

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 19, 2015

RT @neil_ruiz: USA becoming more diverse from the youngest generation up. Is education ready? http://t.co/sOcAlSFXYa pic.twitter.com/K4F1hLGaOm

— Francisco Marmolejo (@fmarmole) February 20, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

How can women be encouraged to study maths and science? @VanDammeEDU reflects on latest OECD-figures http://t.co/AT5AS2jJGL

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) March 19, 2015