On the Agenda – Week 49, 2016
Take 1 – Education
Xi Jinping says China’s universities must become Communist party strongholds & its scholars ‘engineers of the soul’ https://t.co/lNdwiRinz3
— Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsin) December 9, 2016
PISA 2015 results now available: Get the full package https://t.co/yugCFLcm7D Programme for International Student Assessment #OECDPISA #SDG4 pic.twitter.com/6RjicqBd25
— OECD Education (@OECDEduSkills) December 6, 2016
The Trump University case is not a final blow to for-profit education https://t.co/HnhCHTQe8A pic.twitter.com/iNyxQBqdxg
— TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlEducation) December 5, 2016
The Japanese university that is going global https://t.co/Txf7gEMTAQ by @NAR #Japan #HigherEd
— The OBHE (@theobhe) December 9, 2016
Take 2 – Research
Epic, unbelievably deep piece on why America’s engine of innovation is sputtering, by @greg_ip https://t.co/ZS8T4E6IrQ
— Christopher Mims™ (@mims) December 7, 2016
Turn children on to science through reading https://t.co/Z71N1Z4WR3 pic.twitter.com/vT0oQBtJYG
— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) December 9, 2016
Breakthrough prize awards $25m to researchers at ‘Oscars of science’ https://t.co/hUKB3UeWe4
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) December 5, 2016
John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age. https://t.co/v2MstU5ReI pic.twitter.com/aexu3o0N46
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) December 9, 2016
Take 3 –EU
Why is London Mayor Sadiq Khan our No. 1 in this year’s #Politico28? Read the story behind how we chose the nominees https://t.co/fdwf8MhDVi pic.twitter.com/tGIiNov9qT
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) December 7, 2016
Brexit could see EU student numbers nose dive, Cambridge warns https://t.co/HvFtvYUAwP
— Guardian Education (@GuardianEdu) December 8, 2016
Start-up #Education: #Israel and #EU seek to utilize tech-education to solve impending job crisis https://t.co/JgqLap7R85 pic.twitter.com/ZxLQRsAdHH
— Invest in Israel (@investinisrael) December 6, 2016
Trump, Brexit and the rise of Europe’s far-right stoke fear in Brussels https://t.co/XlZLYNDqa6 pic.twitter.com/J9BGcHjMSY
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 4, 2016
And this week on ScienceGuideEU…
Public spending in science, technology and innovation is likely to decline in coming years, @OECD warns https://t.co/GkWej5wVUh
— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) December 8, 2016
