On the Agenda – Week 3, 2019
Take 1 –Education
Brazil’s new far-right president wants to transform his country. His early actions on land rights, education, the economy, and public security have critics concerned. @shannongsims reports: https://t.co/hAmU6Dp1TJ
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) 14 januari 2019
Selective universities appear not to increase inequality. At least, so the evidence from France and Finland suggests, according to The Economist
https://t.co/oGlSkHEO9f pic.twitter.com/af9MzGC853
— F. Pedró UNESCO ED (@FrancescPedroED) 16 januari 2019
Trump administration to unravel US #highered quality safeguards https://t.co/nFQz2vmgCE
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) 14 januari 2019
African Leadership University has raised $30 million to help reinvent graduate education https://t.co/h6PjQzUUnt via @qzafrica #education #Africa
— UoPeople (@UoPeople) 15 januari 2019
Take 2 –Research
Can China dominate science: Red moon rising????????? Should the western world worry????????????????? #science #research #impact #growth #competiveness … #sustainability ? https://t.co/d0VVaPlvQh
— Jukka Kola (@JukkaKola) 10 januari 2019
Despite gains in the past 50 years, women win fewer prizes, less money and less prestige that men do. https://t.co/FnG9d49lV6
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 17 januari 2019
Media reports have declared the field of psychology, if not all of science, to be in a state of crisis. https://t.co/f5jLeCD3QT
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) 17 januari 2019
“We understand now that the #arts and #sciences are the subjective and objective poles of the same great human enterprise, that there is only one world out there and we have to view it with an ever-curious and ever broadening mind” https://t.co/QKHhTBvdJQ @WIRED
— The Royal Society (@royalsociety) 18 januari 2019
Take 3 –Great Britain
It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole https://t.co/UmMUxt4XWF
— The Guardian (@guardian) 18 januari 2019
Kenneth Baker; #Education and #apprenticeships must change to meet Britain’s needs – powerful speech by Tory grandee https://t.co/VZZ0e60aR3 @JayMitchinson @IanDayPix @RobParsonsYP @wizbates @henrimurison #skills
— OpinionYP (@OpinionYP) 18 januari 2019
“For the building of a more open society, the issue of private education is pivotal, symbolically and substantively. The reform of private schools will not alone be sufficient to achieve the good society; but it surely is a necessary condition.” https://t.co/pn2zdqGpiq
— Ben Carrington (@BenHCarrington) 18 januari 2019
My latest Bagehot: anyone who thinks that Britain can go through the madness of Brexit and then revert to politics as normal is howling at the Moon https://t.co/pgFk6Pq9zJ via @TheEconomist
— Adrian Wooldridge (@adwooldridge) 17 januari 2019
