On the Agenda – Week 35, 2015

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28 augustus 2015 | Sensitivity over ranking Africa's universities, MOOCs as credentials in university applications, a large redo of psychology studies and its surprising results, how CERN helps Europe develop an open science cloud and all on Belarus, its scientific and educational collaborations and release of Statkevich. This week's On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Education

Why we need to be more sensitive when ranking Africa’s universities – http://t.co/cBWiwSOQzF via @businesstechSA

— SARUA (@SARUAonline) August 23, 2015

#AdmissionsOfficers seeing more #MOOC credentials on applications http://t.co/tIojpZYL5C #EdTech #OnlineEd #admissions

— WES (@WESPicks) August 27, 2015

What do Americans really think about education policy? http://t.co/Xi8C42jVfU pic.twitter.com/2pSUjsEPsH

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 25, 2015

Why Muammar el-Qaddafi did not end up getting an honorary doctorate from George Washington: http://t.co/KRYxfVBBVQ pic.twitter.com/fmFACBVdNr

— Chronicle (@chronicle) August 27, 2015

Take 2 –Research

A group of scientists redid 100 published psychology studies. The majority did not hold up http://t.co/Y0CSDjlokf pic.twitter.com/FRckcS5k0m

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) August 28, 2015

Long-term collaborations yield 17% boost in citation rate for resulting papers http://t.co/RhDaGdFqJF pic.twitter.com/SOcW63pHvs

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) August 28, 2015

A publisher has retracted 64 articles for fake peer reviews. Nearly all were from China. http://t.co/t2cHkfjE9X pic.twitter.com/E0vh76UkJO

— WSJ China Real Time (@ChinaRealTime) August 25, 2015

CERN Helps Europe Develop An Open Science Cloud http://t.co/bSkarDWjY8 pic.twitter.com/lgkZjxAP4P

— Open Access (@openaccess_rr) August 24, 2015

Take 3 –Belarus

#Belarus, #Brazil sign agreement on cooperation in #education http://t.co/4EqqcQNYW3

— POST Online Media (@poandpo) August 19, 2015

#Belarus And #Russia To Develop #EarthRemoteProbing System http://t.co/fz6y4SBp81 #space #science #MAKS2015 #BKA pic.twitter.com/paDQLD6ksH

— EEU News (@Eurasian_news) August 27, 2015

#Belarus – @FedericaMog and Commissioner @JHahnEU on the release of political prisoners http://t.co/7oEunazBHO

— EU External Action (@eu_eeas) August 23, 2015

Alexander Lukashenko releases six jailed opposition figures including Mikola Statkevich http://t.co/ucksRCSCfq pic.twitter.com/cxFvrNeoBf

— Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews) August 23, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

Mangalyaan, the Indian Mars Mission, has been a year around the red planet. Here are some spectacular results http://t.co/1WaCLj9P6k

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) August 27, 2015

Researchers MIT and Harvard found new way of cheating while analyzing MOOC-data http://t.co/XdWwEOxdQM

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) August 26, 2015