On the Agenda – Week 40, 2016

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7 oktober 2016 | This week's On the Agenda. How the education gap is tearing politics apart. Zuma's silence on South Africa's education crisis. Republicans still denying climate change. Vision's for Africa's future and Canadian efforts to become a coding nation.

Take1 –Education

How the #education gap is tearing #politics apart | David Runciman https://t.co/FxvfHrm0tx #news pic.twitter.com/Cj7diW2erv

— Daily News Pick (@DailyNewsPick) October 5, 2016

Zuma silent on education crisis at international event https://t.co/c9Bg7K52rN

— News24 – SouthAfrica (@News24_SA) October 5, 2016

The reason behind colleges’ ballooning bureaucracies (via @hechingerreport) https://t.co/82RaxrRlNa pic.twitter.com/QM3sLS1vtR

— TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlEducation) October 6, 2016

Survey finds number of courses taught in English by Brazilian universities https://t.co/cRYcGByTWF #intled pic.twitter.com/LrT0ryEicn

— The PIE News (@ThePIENews) October 3, 2016

Take 2 –Research

Republicans who understand science still deny climate change https://t.co/bYU5z6a8Pt pic.twitter.com/P1q7ZhXcnA

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 6, 2016

Copter cars and other visions of Africa’s future https://t.co/to0KQr2U8A

— BBC Science News (@BBCScienceNews) October 6, 2016

Scientists are turning to GitHub to share data and code https://t.co/Slj0r06gLL pic.twitter.com/2KB0AxPPMV

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) October 4, 2016

Exactly how valuable is a PhD?https://t.co/JuVfd55I60 pic.twitter.com/8VM1sOJ3iw

— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) October 7, 2016

Take 3 –Canada

Shopify CEO leads effort to turn Canada into coding nation: New group Canada Learning Code aims to teach 10m to code https://t.co/k6Ac6ZAluh

— SeanSilcoff (@SeanSilcoff) October 6, 2016

Grading the gap.. First Nations education through the eyes of students, parents & teachers #tbay https://t.co/rqMLzAGVpb pic.twitter.com/GScR9GBwBL

— CBC Thunder Bay (@CBCTBay) October 5, 2016

Editorial: Canada’s Trudeau Steps Up on Climate Change: The prime minister’s plan to put a price on carbon em… https://t.co/hSByEPb156

— Science News Int. (@ScienceNewsInt) October 7, 2016

Canada offers the best financing environment for social #innovation: https://t.co/OzWQCiLung via @TheEIU 2016 Social Innovation Index pic.twitter.com/yJiwIiItKC

— Invest in Canada (@invest_canada) October 6, 2016