On the Agenda – Week 12, 2016

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25 maart 2016 | This week's On the Agenda, with Asian women better at planning a business education, digital shift not as fast as some hope, scams from China coming to the US, Europe, the new Silicon Valley, scientists must unite to stop Turkey removing the right to freedom of expression and all on Brussels.

Take 1 –Education

Women in Asia ‘better at planning a business education’https://t.co/zgD0Ns8zyv pic.twitter.com/8V9xJv1l0G

— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) March 25, 2016

#HigherEd’s digital shift not as fast as some hope: https://t.co/ABSkq6gCCy #EdTech

— Education Dive (@EducationDive) March 24, 2016

Follow the leaders: the best social media accounts for academics – The Guardian: The GuardianFollow the leader… https://t.co/pjpl9MYL8Y

— EducationGear (@EducationGear) March 23, 2016

How sophisticated test scams from China are making their way into the U.S.: https://t.co/y9Sw2wzXNy pic.twitter.com/lfcYQWj4X7

— TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlEducation) March 21, 2016

Take 2 –Research

As Silicon Valley chills, Europe’s tech gets hotter https://t.co/6eruTMZoIH by @Ljungman

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) March 25, 2016

Researchers can’t get tenure without winning at least one federal grant, right? Wrong: https://t.co/VpVXUVqysf

— Chronicle (@chronicle) March 24, 2016

Scientists must unite to stop Turkey from removing the right to freedom of expression https://t.co/tCau8vElUs pic.twitter.com/Oac4c5BJPZ

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) March 25, 2016

Japan admits to killing more than 300 whales in Southern Ocean https://t.co/1vuvGu6p2H

— Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) March 25, 2016

Take 3 –Brussels

Political science professor Peter O’Brien writes about the #Brussels attacks https://t.co/O3d1XhGlKO

— Trinity University (@Trinity_U) March 23, 2016

Welcome to Belgium: where anyone can slip through the cracks, because no one calls it home https://t.co/NPcvzPcEbN pic.twitter.com/GP1wZTqtnB

— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) March 24, 2016

The homemade explosive used by Brussels suicide bombers is a chemical nightmare https://t.co/lyleFdEy0n pic.twitter.com/sbBpPQqcpa

— BI Science (@BI_Science) March 24, 2016

Israeli science minister links Brussels attacks to Europe’s ‘foolish’ rebukes of Israel https://t.co/eR4ezTl2p6 pic.twitter.com/xRUqWJQ3xF

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 22, 2016

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

“Mentors matter most in transitions,” says professor Jean Rhodes from the University of Massachussets Boston https://t.co/Mj3Yry49Wd

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) March 23, 2016