On the Agenda – Week 45, 2015

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6 november 2015 | What are the features of Jo Johnson's Higher Education Green Paper? Is Obama's USDA silencing scientists? A leading Chines university dismisses a researcher over a collaboration agreement and all on Canada and prime minister Justin Trudeau's surprising cabinet in this week's On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Education

The 5 scariest bits of the new #HEgreenpaper https://t.co/BI0VzTTdl3 pic.twitter.com/BJ41kbBvVz

— Indy Students (@IndyStudents) November 6, 2015

The White House is set to announce a narrow set of new requirements for the nation’s higher-education accreditors: https://t.co/KsjeEOf9tH

— Chronicle (@chronicle) November 6, 2015

Black & ethnic minorities have mountains to climb in UK #highered. In-depth analysis: https://t.co/QPNdz4CXe7 pic.twitter.com/TpiGFDv47q

— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) November 5, 2015

MOOC watch: Open2Study reaches one million students https://t.co/wzFdgZfsou via @FinancialReview #Australia #MOOCs #HigherEd #DistanceHE

— The OBHE (@theobhe) November 5, 2015

Take 2 –Research

Leading Chinese university dismisses researcher accused of breaking collaboration agreement https://t.co/jgGXregT5H pic.twitter.com/qbQGtTwFlS

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) November 6, 2015

Is Obama’s USDA silencing scientists? https://t.co/uoP1cNdyoo pic.twitter.com/qOYc9fbF3w

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 3, 2015

Toyota’s $1 billion AI company will develop self-driving cars and robot helpers https://t.co/cj6CJjw8so pic.twitter.com/h1WirT4oBB

— The Verge (@verge) November 6, 2015

Europe’s other crisis? A digital recession https://t.co/APM7l9NxlO pic.twitter.com/12QhSCkKzI

— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) October 29, 2015

Take 3 –Canada

Why Canada now has two science ministers https://t.co/hkW1sJzL5f #ottnews #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/i4BRTj5seB

— Ottawa Citizen (@OttawaCitizen) November 6, 2015

Half of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet ministers are women. When a reporter asked him why, he said, “Because it’s 2015.” https://t.co/QSjLdoy9Qm

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 4, 2015

‘You’re in big trouble if you don’t have a post-secondary degree in Toronto.’ #onted https://t.co/8uiBPcIF1g pic.twitter.com/3bm3DFpZKY

— TorontoStar (@TorontoStar) November 3, 2015

How big data is helping startups and cities fight gridlock together feat. our EVP Ventures @salimteja https://t.co/tdh0xRe4CT via @cdnbiz

— MaRS (@MaRSDD) November 5, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

Older universities still perform better, but newer ones are finding ways to challenge them, @UMultirank shows https://t.co/iuVdzjYf4f

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) November 5, 2015