On the Agenda – Week 19, 2018
Take 1 –Education
3 groups of city colleges plan cluster univs to boost education quality education https://t.co/mgrm7sEWrP
— TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) 9 mei 2018
“As a result, the Education Department expects the 13 private debt-collection companies already under contract will be able to absorb new accounts while the agency implements its approach, according to the court filing.” https://t.co/LSHPnPTJ8T
— Education Nation (@educationnation) 7 mei 2018
Child suicide covered up in #China, says education think tank https://t.co/eJmX6Z2WE0
— SCMP News (@SCMP_News) 9 mei 2018
Gordon Brown launches global funding plan for schools – BBC News @OfficeGSBrown https://t.co/LaW0KegVn5
— Sarah Brown (@SarahBrownUK) 11 mei 2018
Take 2 –Research
Scientists say the move will make a bad situation worse. https://t.co/uv76Ijrcsv
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 11 mei 2018
American farmers are worried that the power of cutting-edge agricultural science is moving East https://t.co/a91AUlhDFe
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) 7 mei 2018
Europe has officially entered the race to be a leader in artificial intelligence – @sarakcuster, @RachaelPells and @Cornell computer science professor Claire Cardie discusshttps://t.co/bi3xMonIXP
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 11 mei 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 | @NPRGoatsandSoda https://t.co/dK1zPa1ovx
— Levers in Heels (@leversinheels) 10 mei 2018
Take 3 –Australia
The number of Australians with enormous student debts has increased by almost 30 per cent in a year #higheredhttps://t.co/UntR6k3SGk
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 11 mei 2018
“An increasing focus at schools on NAPLAN tests has achieved a slight improvement in results but is leading to Australia’s worsening performance in higher-level international assessments, such as PISA, a leading expert in assessment says.”https://t.co/QC7SmBC3Fr#NAPLAN
— TES_Australia (@Tes_Australia) 11 mei 2018
Is Australia any closer to becoming an innovation powerhouse? @DeanRoyGreen chats to @frankelly08 & @albericie about the Government’s investment in innovation & what’s missing. https://t.co/AmqGmH0fn4
— Universities Aust. (@uniaus) 7 mei 2018
“It should not only be ‘No means no,’ but more importantly, ‘Yes means yes,’” said a university student in Sydney https://t.co/9aZTa7656b
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) 8 mei 2018
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