On the Agenda – Week 21, 2018
Take 1 –Education
India’s creating millions of jobs, but its low education attainment present a major challenge https://t.co/cm9fwIAkMN pic.twitter.com/6HJqyQamrI
— Forbes (@Forbes) 24 mei 2018
Revolution’s reverberations: how the spirit of ’68 affected academia worldwide, then and nowhttps://t.co/Zr8xDMAmby
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 24 mei 2018
This op-ed by me and my colleague Brad Hershbein tries to set the record straight on what our research says about how the returns to college vary with family income background. The study on which the op-ed is based can be found here: https://t.co/ErXT4f5IsL https://t.co/hcrVgthP56
— Tim Bartik (@TimBartik) 23 mei 2018
#UK Universities minister @SamGyimah pledges support to @UUKIntl study abroad campaign
Read the story here: https://t.co/UYaehK9Cvb#intled pic.twitter.com/0dY4o4ep2h
— The PIE News (@ThePIENews) 23 mei 2018
Take 2 –Research
Even as Chinese investments in U.S. tech companies skyrocketed in 2015, the failure to investigate some forms of these investments has flown under the radar https://t.co/eiuWYkdpA0 pic.twitter.com/XsSEvzdzM1
— POLITICO (@politico) 22 mei 2018
Supervisors and junior researchers can reduce the risk of misunderstandings by learning about each other’s cultures and communicating workplace expectations clearly. https://t.co/YeK4boYmYJ
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 24 mei 2018
Postdoc @boukjecnossen shares some tips to navigate the subtle cultural differences that can loom large when you’re looking for a European academic job #PhDlifehttps://t.co/vZbCJ7zwLy
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 22 mei 2018
New internal memos show the White House considered ways to downplay climate science research: https://t.co/oonp75K8wJ pic.twitter.com/DbNrcicwzr
— Slate (@Slate) 23 mei 2018
Take 3 –France
“We are in the middle of a signficant revolution. I believe profoundly in this revolution. But there is a growing fear of change. And there is fear because many people worry they will not be included.” https://t.co/vGw39gUSPx
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) 25 mei 2018
When he came to power a year ago, Emmanuel Macron vowed to make France a “start-up nation”. He’s meeting Mark Zuckerberg today, so @LizAldermanNYT assessed his progress https://t.co/8Uhc1XNYOu
— Prashant Rao (@prashantrao) 23 mei 2018
An elite French university reported an unprecedented rise in applications from outside of France for its bachelor and graduate schools. They’re saying it’s the ‘Macron effect’ https://t.co/sC6atimcGH
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) 21 mei 2018
— csdickey (@csdickey) 25 mei 2018
