On the Agenda – Week 46, 2018

Take 1 –Education
China drops another regulatory bomb, battering education stocks https://t.co/m8FCFCN9QU
— Bloomberg (@business) 16 november 2018
The president-elect seeks to ban anything he think is leftist from classrooms. https://t.co/kyXQDvkseL
— The Nation (@thenation) 13 november 2018
Japan’s determination to preserve its universities is putting pressure on the private network that teaches 80 per cent of the country’s studentshttps://t.co/i0AQcvqg6O
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 15 november 2018
A new lawsuit alleges that Betsy DeVos and The U.S. Education Department delayed student loan forgiveness for students https://t.co/annq1pUe1i pic.twitter.com/aLrS2RbZR4
— Forbes (@Forbes) 15 november 2018
Take 2 –Research
Scientists in the Palestinian territories need support from colleagues overseas. https://t.co/lEAeaXpw6I
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 16 november 2018
11/Want to revive the Midwest? You’re going to need second-tier universities to become first-tier universities, and create local innovation.
International students are very important to that strategy.https://t.co/I0whhGTzqE
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) 15 november 2018
India masters rocket science with ISRO sucessfully launching GSAT-29 satellitehttps://t.co/lIfDZsqTE8 pic.twitter.com/0O1YRd6Hmh
— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) 15 november 2018
At the 100 year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel called for gender equality efforts to continue and extend to politics, business, and science.https://t.co/Y1SRGpU8AW
— Graduate Women in Science (@GWISci) 15 november 2018
Take 3 –Great Britain
Theresa May’s last-ditch effort to save her Brexit deal—and her government: https://t.co/mdhVB6HZLd pic.twitter.com/ZtZPpV4nh8
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) 16 november 2018
The UK’s strength in science is because of the EU – not in spite of ithttps://t.co/HZBhHHU1MU
— Guardian Universities (@GdnUniversities) 16 november 2018
‘As universities minister Johnson trashed higher education – but he’s absolutely right about the future of Britain’ – @luke_myer blogs https://t.co/zD4E7ocDIE
— HuffPost UK Politics (@HuffPostUKPol) 9 november 2018
The fall in the birth rate at the turn of the millennium will mean that by 2020 British universities will have fewer potential customers https://t.co/MdkdzZmKwN
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) 14 november 2018
