On the Agenda – Week 37, 2018
Take 1 –Education
TIME’s new cover: “I work 3 jobs and donate blood plasma to pay the bills.” This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America https://t.co/zm0EgxGlUB
— TIME (@TIME) 14 september 2018
Professor Jari Lavonen: “The long-term approach is a winning asset for the #Finnish #education system – reforms must transcend government terms of office” https://t.co/nXiAghaYBi pic.twitter.com/vMMpEK1oga
— thisisFINLAND (@thisisFINLAND) 13 september 2018
#China to build education centers to raise public awareness on wetland protection https://t.co/Qjjpx4ILsq
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) 14 september 2018
No books, no desks, no pay: Nigeria’s education system is failing https://t.co/9MPu0VOsoN via @bpolitics
— OSF Education (@OSFEducation) 13 september 2018
Take 2 –Research
The US National Science Foundation has expanded a funding initiative to support master’s and PhD students for six-month internships. https://t.co/GmtpRhnTCK
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 13 september 2018
European countries demand that publicly funded research be free | The S-Plan diet https://t.co/8g0c5XRs8x pic.twitter.com/8ufVt24hgc
— Richard Poynder (@RickyPo) 14 september 2018
Asking social scientists to demonstrate academic impact ignores the messy reality of political lobbying, says @PoliticalSpikehttps://t.co/f5GEJYyDzT
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 14 september 2018
Chinese academics are overtaking U.S. scientists in some research fields https://t.co/lxXd7bx0lw via @bopinion
— David Shipley (@davidjshipley) 12 september 2018
Take 3 –Great Britain
Britain should be welcoming international students https://t.co/wlQKI2kJS3
— Financial Times (@FT) 12 september 2018
A project to measure the learning gain of students at universities in England using standardised tests has been scrapped after it failed to persuade enough students to participatehttps://t.co/RocYlZ84Z2
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 14 september 2018
British universities want foreign students to stay back in the UK after graduation https://t.co/wBQDyDGBN3
— Quartz (@qz) 7 september 2018
Lecturers are fed up of being the big losers in the higher education markethttps://t.co/ZYozAA0GCL
— Higher Education (@GdnHigherEd) 13 september 2018
