On the Agenda – Week 23, 2019
Take 1 –Education
China warned its students studying in the U.S. to be vigilant as the Trump administration steps up restrictions on academic visas https://t.co/kR2qCrljMU
— Bloomberg (@business) 6 juni 2019
Finland got a new left-of-centre government today promising tax rises and spending on welfare state, education, and infrastructure https://t.co/v30xUOiAL7
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) 6 juni 2019
As young adults wrestle with student debt in the U.S., where it has reached $1.5 trillion, many recent graduates in some countries are debt free https://t.co/CEX4NfGEN8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) 1 juni 2019
“The greater the inbound student mobility to a particular country, the greater the international research collaboration rate . . . which also leads to much greater impact of the research output” @JanetIlieva on new research shared at #GoingGlobal2019 https://t.co/X4BQvwLEUm pic.twitter.com/eRpTGDQHiV
— Going Global (@HEGoingGlobal) 30 mei 2019
Take 2 –Research
For the 1st time, @EU_Commission annual country-specific recommendations for economic policy advise all EU member states to look to R&I investments. While R&D spending accounts for a chunk of #EUbudget, it is only a tiny fraction of R&D spending in Europe. https://t.co/NacfMlzRBc pic.twitter.com/RQwCKBCB1s
— Science|Business (@scibus) 7 juni 2019
Scientists have argued that research funders should go one step further than Europe’s open access initiative by mandating that all papers that they finance should be made immediately available on preprint servers. https://t.co/rgY8IE2vn1
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) 7 juni 2019
Efforts should be made to measure just how valuable data sharing is. https://t.co/QjscBhwl77
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 6 juni 2019
“If John Arnold decided he wanted to beat hunger, I wouldn’t want to bet on hunger.” https://t.co/2nyJeiYm7Z
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) 7 juni 2019
Take 3 – South Africa
South Africa’s Department of #HigherEd and Training os clamping down on academics publishing in ‘predatory journals’, withholding at least US$4.2 million in subsidies in past academic years https://t.co/S5vmzA6eGd #research #PhD
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) 7 juni 2019
Newsletter | President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks on Wednesday with more than 20 chief executives of key state companies, including power utility Eskom and South African Airways. He asked about challenges. This is what they told him.https://t.co/nnqzE5OCsw pic.twitter.com/bkBsoSALWw
— City Press (@City_Press) 6 juni 2019
Nearly 80% of South Africa’s 9- or 10-year-olds cannot read and understand sentences in any language https://t.co/tSEiqYiS0F
— Zeenat Moorad (@ZeenatMoorad) 2 juni 2019
For the first time in the country’s history, South Africa has a gender-balanced cabinet with half of all ministers women. ???????? @BBCWorld https://t.co/VOLYyfm9IP
— UN Women (@UN_Women) 30 mei 2019
