On the Agenda – Week 29, 2016
Take1 –Education
Changing student finance system in England causing confusion and undoing financial education efforts, charity warns https://t.co/uMDw5z847G
— The Independent (@Independent) July 21, 2016
The scariest student loan number https://t.co/rJWZYMad7U pic.twitter.com/K8NeEW68X0
— TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlEducation) July 21, 2016
.@elliebothwell meets @Stanford’s John Hennessy to discuss the future of #Moocs https://t.co/1G2OB9QI4t pic.twitter.com/sEoqUyHTM7
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) July 22, 2016
Fierce competition! Parents in long queue, some wait overnight, for kids’ primary school enrollment in E China pic.twitter.com/kwskTSeWdQ
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) July 18, 2016
Take 2 –Research
UK national academies say Brexit has harmed science. Why scientists dislike Brexit https://t.co/aUJJGNPUUn pic.twitter.com/sQiwSuBNMo
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 21, 2016
Dutch agency launches world’s first grants programme dedicated to replication https://t.co/bL2FhvMsYM pic.twitter.com/bKL5FYHCzX
— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) July 21, 2016
Breaking news! @Stephen_Curry: “Early-career researchers from Europe working in the UK face more insecurity” https://t.co/HplYqSyEy9 #Brexit
— Voice of Researchers (@Research_Voice) July 22, 2016
Science advice for Europe – Director of Impact & Engagement, @jameswilsdon’s lead editorial for @sciencemagazine https://t.co/RynLtJDzD7
— Sheff Social Science (@SheffSocScience) July 22, 2016
Take 3 –Turkey
#Turkey crackdown continues https://t.co/b2aWzctZm5 #highered #humanrights pic.twitter.com/7ghh0NvJjk
— Inside Higher Ed (@insidehighered) July 21, 2016
Why is Turkey’s political purge focusing so much on education?https://t.co/hsmsp4HKwv
— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 21, 2016
Secular education in Turkey is all but gone: https://t.co/VWUpGokI3Y
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) July 20, 2016
Goal of Gulen movement: a “golden generation of young people who are educated in science, but have Muslim ethics.” https://t.co/sAga5MtZu9
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) July 20, 2016
And this week on ScienceGuideEU…
“Europe is facing a widening skills gap,” says EC that wants to give industry the instruments to cope with it https://t.co/EkreA9ZYRJ
— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) July 21, 2016
