On the Agenda – Week 20, 2018
Take 1 –Education
How educational programs in Africa can help counter violent extremism https://t.co/Vyn9gBrWzl
— Monkey Cage (@monkeycageblog) 17 mei 2018
”Xinjiang has become a police state to rival North Korea, with a formalized racism on the order of South African apartheid.” https://t.co/77G1ARzKkY
— Jojje Olsson (@jojjeols) 16 mei 2018
Once a nondescript commuter college in downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now aspires to be engine of social mobility https://t.co/PSg70FsLK8
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) 15 mei 2018
China to release funding to Hong Kong to help it become an ‘international innovation hub’. https://t.co/a1trGN32Ib #highered #China #HongKong #innovation
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) 17 mei 2018
Take 2 –Research
Bold efforts to push academic publishing towards an open-access model are gaining steam. https://t.co/nznaBEdU9W
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 18 mei 2018
“Thanks in part to investments in science, research, and innovation, we’ve built world-leading universities and colleges,” says @JustinTrudeau https://t.co/dfnkGg7YcV #CdnPSE #UnivResearch @KirstyDuncanMP @NavdeepSBains
— Universities Canada (@univcan) 17 mei 2018
#Japan’s government proposed an energy plan with ambitious targets for #nuclear energy use in the coming decade
According to the plan, by 2030 nuclear energy should account for 20-22% of Japan’s total power generation.
➡️Full story: https://t.co/3Aw4wftABK pic.twitter.com/GqkQGKn5uI
— FORATOM (@FORATOM_nuclear) 17 mei 2018
Academic papers are going through a bit of a change https://t.co/9reghp4bjP
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) 18 mei 2018
Take 3 –EU
Everything you need to know from yesterday’s EU-Balkan summit in Sofia https://t.co/qIeOqtBAuJ
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) 18 mei 2018
Retweeted Reuters Science News (@ReutersScience):
Britain, EU clash in growing row over Galileo satellite project https://t.co/5D9xl7B2wP pic.twitter.com/sOidJmy3xC https://t.co/9QwxqjdI9n
— NWParsons (@nwparsons) 15 mei 2018
My latest for @TheEconomist‘s Which MBA section is on how – right when Britain is leaving the EU – the EU is the only thing saving its management education sector from chronic underfunding https://t.co/cW2BEOlnXi
— Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) 15 mei 2018
Does fierce #competition with #China hurt #innovation in the #West? Fears are overblown, #data suggest that in the past few years EU’s & US’s #patents and #research spending have soared alongside their trade deficit with China. #Facts ???? https://t.co/voWAKxcGQp pic.twitter.com/jWxsKRZZ7K
— Alexis Roig (@alexisroig) 15 mei 2018
