On the Agenda – Week 50, 2018
Take 1 –Education
Education: The continuing tragedy
With the very limited skills imparted by our school systems, how can people find reasonably satisfactory employment? How will they cope with “digital age”?
Without serious education reforms, the future looks darkhttps://t.co/0TOrW6D7ui pic.twitter.com/5AXBdUGApP
— Business Standard (@bsindia) 13 december 2018
“Those who believe the only way to protect the humanities is to cite a general utility overestimate the persuasive force of the universalist vocabulary, and underestimate the power of, say, demonstrations of what humanist scholarship at its best is like.”https://t.co/VjrX03f7lb
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 14 december 2018
The Trump administration said it will cancel thousands of borrowers’ federal student loans, carrying out an Obama-era policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had fought to kill https://t.co/FvYQJEJEfd
— POLITICO (@politico) 14 december 2018
.@oren_cass: People often applaud vocational education in theory, provided it is “for someone else’s kids.” Those kids are most kids, and a false promise of college success does more harm than good. https://t.co/maY7w9Ztzf
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) 10 december 2018
Take 2 –Research
This is heartbreaking.#ScienceNotSilence https://t.co/W9ROV0tfNa
— March for Science (@ScienceMarchDC) 13 december 2018
“The research, published in November, examined 495 papers published online in 2016 by 100 Africa-based journals. Of those, 313 articles showed evidence of plagiarism” https://t.co/DLwYbBME1Q
— Adam (@adancabdulle) 13 december 2018
Foreign Policy sat down with the new head of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, who broke down how the United States can catch up to China’s technological innovation. https://t.co/9ehZVb8cwq
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) 29 november 2018
US science academies urge expansion of fusion-energy research https://t.co/RaA8zu1rTz
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 13 december 2018
Take 3 –EU
Brussels bodyblow for Theresa May as EU scraps written promise of ‘further reassurances’ to deliver Brexit deal https://t.co/EhfB2cd56b
— HuffPost UK Politics (@HuffPostUKPol) 14 december 2018
“As civil society believing in the European project, we wonder whether today, this is the right orientation for R&I?” https://t.co/1WuzuVzeLu
— EURACTIV Economy (@eaEconomy) 13 december 2018
While climate attention is focused on #COP24, a crucial European Parliament vote this week will shape EU innovation spending for the next 7 years. @ClimateSt and @JakopDalunde set out what is at stake: https://t.co/d3lOiIs4LC
— Jonathan Gaventa (@jonathangaventa) 10 december 2018
Theresa May came to Brussels looking for reassurance, but in the end it was EU leaders who most needed reassuring — and the UK prime minister came up short https://t.co/iZcXDcYw1Y
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) 14 december 2018
