On the Agenda – Week 37, 2018

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14 september 2018 | This week's On the Agenda with the poor position of teacher in the United States, China building education centers for wetland protection, Nigeria's failing education system, the S-Plan diet, China overtaking the US in scientific research and all on Great Britain.

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