On the Agenda – Week 21, 2019
Take 1 –Education
CHINA UP CLOSE | Xi Jinping brandishes a potent weapon in his trade war with the United States.#XiJinping #tradewar #Chinahttps://t.co/5Xdv0F2yJd
— Nikkei Asian Review (@NAR) 23 mei 2019
University staff “at breaking point” as counselling demand soars: @HEPI_news report ties increase to mounting workloads and performance managementhttps://t.co/pMdHkcgJ3N pic.twitter.com/W2NPVKSEPR
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 24 mei 2019
“We’re not going to do it anymore, and we’ll go to the length of creating our own city—to create our own education system—to take control back from the status quo.”
My latest: On the school segregation fight in Baton Rouge https://t.co/e4jErdQPnd
— adam harris (@AdamHSays) 20 mei 2019
I wrote about today’s new data release and how the larger movement to evaluate and regulate individual programs could change higher education. https://t.co/Vb9P66jwO9 via @NYTimes
— Kevin Carey (@kevincarey1) 21 mei 2019
Take 2 –Research
“The United Kingdom is a research powerhouse, and even a temporary hiatus in its full participation in European research programmes and policies… will be a loss.” – Stephan Kuster, Secretary-general of Science Europe, Brussels, Belgium. https://t.co/8rt1i5F1au
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 23 mei 2019
Great op-ed by @MazzucatoM in the FT about how British industry needs its own version of the moon shot to put green innovation at the heart of UK’s future growth trajectory https://t.co/mzzpS8m2z8 via @financialtimes
— Carlota Perez (@CarlotaPrzPerez) 23 mei 2019
An interesting piece written from the academic side of thought takes a step back and looks at China’s broader challenge to U.S. research/innovation and economic strength. Trade deal or not, US must counter China moves to beat us at science and technology https://t.co/fJOlofIU7D pic.twitter.com/wfSkw2lx9g
— WWU Center for Economic and Business Research (@PugetSoundEF) 23 mei 2019
Research indicates the only defense against killer AI is not developing it https://t.co/fZS9dQcPxk
— TNW (@thenextweb) 20 mei 2019
Take 3 – Germany
Merkel calls for Europe to stand up against far-right parties https://t.co/GnrbpFK7rI pic.twitter.com/9Os33li2Be
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 18 mei 2019
Playing catch-up, Germany introduces incentives for corporate research https://t.co/3sakNJm3uW
— Smart Incentives (@SmartIncentives) 23 mei 2019
Germany is slowly opening up its labour market to skilled migrant workers. But the change will test its storied apprenticeship system. My report from the Mittelstand of Baden-Württemberg. https://t.co/PQt2GmU8mp
— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) 16 mei 2019
The EU and Germany have increased their contribution towards aid for education to https://t.co/A3LDNziQR7 pic.twitter.com/I4wkYhxEt7
— Salaam Bombay Foundation (@salaambbayorg) 20 mei 2019
