On the Agenda – Week 15, 2015

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10 april 2015 | The succes of for-profit colleges. How far test companies go to fight cheating. The bumpy road to gold open access. A call for preserving H2020 and ERC and how in Brazil the free universities largely serve the wealthy. Read this and more in this weeks' On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Education

My new one RT @TheAtlantic: Why for-profit colleges are here to stay http://t.co/rXiBPRT17z pic.twitter.com/MeQufTMD6N

— Bourree Lam (@bourreelam) April 3, 2015

“Leaning down to pick up your pencil could flag your test.” The lengths online test companies go to stop cheating http://t.co/3ig1ecKygg

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) April 6, 2015

What’s in a grade? http://t.co/x70lC8keR8 – Students need to understand assessment criteria in order to spot weaknesses in their own work

— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) April 10, 2015

Kenyan official confesses we did ‘something wrong in Garissa’ http://t.co/6glkwkIUA1 via @dw_english #Kenya #Garissa #HigherEd #Terrorism

— The OBHE (@theobhe) April 9, 2015

Take 2 –Research

“The road to gold open access will be bumpy and hard to navigate.” http://t.co/fFvQwS8TKq #OA #openaccess pic.twitter.com/DHAXP7SH0R

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) April 10, 2015

Read this statement on why we are calling to preserve H2020, & in particular ERC, budgets: http://t.co/OyMHoyT3Sn

— Science Europe (@ScienceEurope) March 19, 2015

South African scientists, what can be done to boost #impact #factors of the country’s #journals? http://t.co/XifOtI7sQz

— Research Africa (@ResearchAfrica) April 10, 2015

Mourn the brontosaurus no longer! Finally, scientists want to reinstate the mighty thunder lizard. By @StocktonSays. http://t.co/O0FnpF0FSi

— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) April 7, 2015

Take 3 –Latin America

In Brazil, free universities largely serve the wealthy. Can the government change the system? http://t.co/eXpVSsd5AA pic.twitter.com/n2kGjK3WZZ

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 8, 2015

Reforming education from the bottom up in Buenos Aires, Argentina http://t.co/GZsG6kIhsa http://t.co/EPkBFqFTVm #argentina

— GO! Argentina (@goargentinanow) April 9, 2015

Brazil is building a huge floating solar farm http://t.co/p5eQOHOHjU pic.twitter.com/ZOVf0unbQ8

— Popular Science (@PopSci) April 8, 2015

Brazil’s new education minister promises to mobilise state universities, MOOCs, to support primary education (PT) http://t.co/D6mB8WHLdC

— Science4Brazil (@Science4Brazil) April 7, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

The president of Shinshu University urges students to ditch their smartphones http://t.co/BIY7XyvOy8

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) April 9, 2015

Study by Harvard and MIT finds that a lot of people taking #MOOCs are teachers themselves http://t.co/hHuc5zGHaW

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) April 8, 2015