On the Agenda – Week 40, 2017
What was going in other international media concerning higher education and research?
Take 1 – Education
In full: What Theresa May said about higher education in her Conservative Party conference speech. https://t.co/9wpYLEHKB3 #CPC17 #highered
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 4 oktober 2017
Turkey: Radical changes to university entrance system. https://t.co/mMnbhvyFn3 #Highered #Turkey #University
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) 5 oktober 2017
#Onlinelearning has a mansplaining problem https://t.co/Ln9kFVs5Tn pic.twitter.com/5ogaau308g
— EdSurge HigherEd (@HigherEdSurge) 30 september 2017
Why liberals and conservatives alike are fighting for college-endowment reform, by @Anne_S_Kim https://t.co/tuC6B6v8td pic.twitter.com/nGmbj0o9Hl
— TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlEducation) 5 oktober 2017
Take 2 – Research
.@EU_ScienceHub confirms: the more open a country is in its approach to research, the more the quality and success of its research increases!#openscience#H2020@TNavracsicsEU
Read more on @NatureNews https://t.co/AEZSM7Im2r pic.twitter.com/OrLEVNyrFF
— Carlos Moedas (@Moedas) 5 oktober 2017
How China is seizing uncertainty in America to catch up in technology and science: https://t.co/t4YbehTLNS pic.twitter.com/GP0juvO7Tj
— Forbes (@Forbes) 5 oktober 2017
Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky is under fire from within his own rank for his doctoral thesis. https://t.co/4A4zHSHXQo pic.twitter.com/zJTJkT28Bf
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) 4 oktober 2017
“Next big innovation will happen at the intersection of AI, hardware, and software.”— Rick Osterloh, SVP of hardware https://t.co/PTu8uADF8c pic.twitter.com/0X4MYJJ0uA
— WIRED (@WIRED) 4 oktober 2017
Take 3 – Nobel Prizes 2017
The Nobel Prizes in science are flawed, absurd, and harmful, and we should stop caring about them https://t.co/WwzzC2hcIb
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) 4 oktober 2017
Gravitational waves exist: the inside story of how scientists finally found them. https://t.co/vyqmvQc630 #NobelPrize2017 pic.twitter.com/AmvZioPJmZ
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) 3 oktober 2017
Opinion: Three Americans win a Nobel for research on the biological clock https://t.co/zD3LaBOJ3D
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) 4 oktober 2017
The #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 will be declared at 3.00 pm IST today. Do you know why it was set up?https://t.co/qxtsB0WeHV
— The Hindu Explains (@THexplains) 2 oktober 2017
