On the Agenda – Week 15, 2018
Take 1 –Education
Detention of antiwar students seen as indicative of growing intolerant of dissident https://t.co/FEqWTFR2FC via @ftbrussels
— EUwatch ???????? (@EUwatchers) 11 april 2018
Sweden’s looking to improve its internationalisation strategy and we got the details on the plan. Check it out on our blog https://t.co/nyabfCvgiZ #highered #intled
— The EAIE (@TheEAIE) 12 april 2018
China pushes #AI education in colleges, to train 5,000 students https://t.co/KEVa3dP5Rg pic.twitter.com/mGOaHXrogn
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) 13 april 2018
quoted by The @guardian: “#Mai68 was a social movement to change the system. It didn’t succeed, but it would confirm the lesson of the massive strikes of 1936, and that is: when a strike paralyses the economy, the government gives in after a few weeks.” https://t.co/ui4sqOpIOf
— Thomas Guénolé (@thomas_guenole) 9 april 2018
Take 2 –Research
Young African scientists often pursue their careers in North America or Europe, rather than closer to home https://t.co/VDV7VvDIPo
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) 10 april 2018
China’s research system rewards quantity over quality and stifles the creativity and critical thinking necessary to achieve innovative breakthroughs, says major wideranging study of research environment https://t.co/6N7Xdr5UEu #highered #research #science #STEM
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) 12 april 2018
Levers in Heels, a website that promotes African women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, recently asked its Twitter followers if there’s a Western media bias against African research. https://t.co/Z1SyC8ng7e
— Levers in Heels (@leversinheels) 10 april 2018
French say ‘no deal’ to Springer as journal fight spreads https://t.co/HdgfEgF4PP via @timeshighered
— Phil Baty (@Phil_Baty) 10 april 2018
Take 3 –Germany
What is Germany’s dual education system — and why do other countries want it? https://t.co/ahgR3Iv5vs pic.twitter.com/SMZWpHAez7
— DW – Business (@dw_business) 10 april 2018
#Germany-an engineering culture, we generally tend to think of Digitalisierung as a hardware phenomenon. When Americans talk about #edtech or #elearning, they think about how, cognitively, human beings learn & ought to be taught, which is quite different. https://t.co/o9KV8yOV8g
— Jan Beger (@janbeger) 10 april 2018
In light of folks talking about this NY Times story on the Holocaust “fading from memory,” might I recommend the doc The Revisionaries which addresses the way in which memory is purposefully crafted in public schools by textbooks (and the TX School Board) https://t.co/Rmha2Spvuq
— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) 12 april 2018
Universities from Texas to Berlin are teaching future studies and a growing number of companies are building so-called foresight teams to help them prepare https://t.co/mKsxcs4OXS
— FT Special Reports (@ftreports) 5 april 2018
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