On the Agenda – Week 10, 2018
Take 1 –Education
When Xi Jinping visited Washington in 2015, hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets, carrying banners and flags to welcome him. It was a remarkable display of seemingly spontaneous patriotism.
Except it wasn’t entirely spontaneous.https://t.co/Hvo7w65UaN
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) 7 maart 2018
#Education is now firmly at the top of the EU’s political agenda. Boosting #digitalskills & making most of new technologies in teaching & learning are central part of our ambition to build #EuropeanEducationArea by 2025 https://t.co/DacDy3kCjc
— Tibor Navracsics (@TNavracsicsEU) 8 maart 2018
How unsuccessful attempts at reform and the growth of private schools are hurting Morocco’s poor https://t.co/z6qH0L9xE3 pic.twitter.com/4IQszHf347
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) 7 maart 2018
Betsy DeVos’ visit to Stoneman Douglas High School did not go well https://t.co/fW9oaAo9Xf
— VICE News (@vicenews) 9 maart 2018
Take 2 –Research
The European Union is set to miss its target of having all scientific research freely available by 2020, as progress towards open access hits a “plateau” because of deeper problems in how research is assessed.https://t.co/S1MzzPrc6w
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 7 maart 2018
China has passed Europe in R&D intensity in 2012 and is on course to match #OECD average by 2020. #Europe stagnating. https://t.co/GW8ahaLPjy
— Dirk Van Damme (@VanDammeEDU) 7 maart 2018
#Brexit brain drain: elite universities say they are losing future research stars – https://t.co/EESRAYtuKb #WellDoneBrexiters, destroying UK’s leading academic position in the world with your bigotry
— Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) 6 maart 2018
Funders should try different schemes and share their experiences. https://t.co/mePaNBQN54
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 7 maart 2018
Take 3 –British university strikes
The fallout from UK higher education’s pension strike threatens to poison relations between university leaders, their staff and students, academics have warned, while it has also revealed significant divisions among vice-chancellors https://t.co/AYDNmPPFhG
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 9 maart 2018
Time for @UniversitiesUK & Uni management to wake up – as growing @UCU pickets across UK show, the dodgy valuation of #USS & its governance needs fixed & threat to cut defined benefits must be suspended or we fight on! #USSstrike https://t.co/N0MnYAL6d3 https://t.co/218ItPrRFR
— Stuart Gilfillan (@stugilfillan) 8 maart 2018
University’s administrative despotism reported here as the revolution continues https://t.co/qUwzKP5JBL
— Robert Gildea (@RobertGildea) 7 maart 2018
This strike reminds us what universities are for – from ‘The Sociology of Generations’ author Jennie Bristow https://t.co/2vVkfIl8SD @spikedonline @PalgraveSoc
— Palgrave Macmillan (@Palgrave_) 7 maart 2018
