On the Agenda – Week 41, 2015

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9 oktober 2015 | In Hyderabad every student is majoring in engineering, at Harvard a prison team won the debate contest, Nobel-winner Tu Youyou talks about her critics while a reclusive mathematician might have solved one of the field's most complex problems. Furthermore everything about the Tunisian Dialogue Quartet in this week's On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Education

The city where everyone majors in the same thing http://t.co/rPH62T1F1r pic.twitter.com/puVouQz0vt

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 8, 2015

Global online college courses: A career booster? http://t.co/KWRxT8x6kO via @WashtingtonPost #HigherEd #MOOCs

— The OBHE (@theobhe) October 8, 2015

Our prison debate team beat Harvard’s. Here’s how we did it | David Register http://t.co/sihwISNSsJ pic.twitter.com/32z6EwjLZw

— The Guardian (@guardian) October 8, 2015

#MOOCs may become a prominent factor in #admissions decisions at selective colleges http://t.co/J5NnjML6Md @jryoung reports for @chronicle

— WES (@WESPicks) October 8, 2015

Take 2 –Research

We teamed up w @ResearchAmerica on a new national poll on US attitudes abt science & politics http://t.co/dKEXUfvPDn pic.twitter.com/E00T1EARFN

— ScienceDebate (@SciDebate) October 8, 2015

Tu Youyou, Nobel laureate in medicine, talks to @JanePerlez about her work and her critics. http://t.co/iQFQgG1SXH pic.twitter.com/LO9oeLDvFq

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) October 9, 2015

Europe: Why is Horizon 2020 success rate declining? http://t.co/6jRHJYoEUN #highered #horizon2020

— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) October 8, 2015

Has a reclusive mathematician solved one of his field’s most famous problems? http://t.co/uoYxoijiNQ pic.twitter.com/kX5wlgFSkR

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) October 9, 2015

Take 3 –Tunisia

Article providing background material on the Quartet, How a Leftist Labor Union Helped Force Tunisia’s… http://t.co/VI1Gneoi4J #NobelPrize

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2015

The 2015 #NobelPrize for Peace goes to Tunisia. Our country of the year in 2014 http://t.co/1fS7aIus5o pic.twitter.com/lFCnvSte2C

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 9, 2015

Impact of Education on economic growth in Morocco, Tunisia and South Korea https://t.co/o1zBDjZ29D #SDGs #2030NOW

— MarquesDurables (@OBenaicha) October 4, 2015

Innovation Entrepreneurship As A Solution For Tunisia’s Economy http://t.co/THnLOVFfaI

— iAfrikan (@iafrikan) September 30, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

Is HE still performing crucial task for society of stimulating social mobility? asks @OECD_Edu Dirk van Damme http://t.co/qG0opzXs6r

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) October 7, 2015