On the Agenda – Week 27, 2019
Take 1 –Education
Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities? – The New York Times https://t.co/LhrQlwv0nj
— Golnar Motevalli (@golnarM) 4 juli 2019
Violence in the streets of Santiago, Chile as riot police clash with protesters calling for more education funding https://t.co/80JWxoqLPQ pic.twitter.com/OtkG6NofHp
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 4 juli 2019
The educational disparities between urban and rural Americans are only growing https://t.co/syQwzHsCOq big changes are necessary to avoid the chasm growing ever-wider
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) 1 juli 2019
Prisoners enrolled in law courses can help fellow inmates who are unable, for lack of education or money, to defend themselves https://t.co/M4FGZptliU
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) 4 juli 2019
Take 2 –Research
“If John Arnold decided he wanted to beat hunger, I wouldn’t want to bet on hunger.” https://t.co/aJGoWrKYlq
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) 4 juli 2019
How to make a long-distance academic job move without going broke, how other researchers made it happen and how institutions and universities worldwide are helping (or not) with moving expenses. https://t.co/wJf5pxwsuU
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 4 juli 2019
Statistically speaking, just being male will automatically give you a leg up. And no one wants to believe that they achieved their success, even in some small part, based on their gender or ethnicity. https://t.co/PS6HqUh0mO
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) 4 juli 2019
India’s spending on science remained low in 2018 at around 0.8 per cent of the GDP which is below the 3 per cent demanded by researchers and scholars. | aditya_shz https://t.co/UzqThuOuKi
— News18 (@CNNnews18) 3 juli 2019
Take 3 – European Union
Ursula von der Leyen has been largely silent since being nominated for the Commission presidency, but the defense minister has given plenty of interviews over the years — here’s what she’s had to say https://t.co/d7g6EqTray
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) 4 juli 2019
“@CharlesMichel will, with his experience as Belgian Prime Minister, be ideal for finding consensus and building unity among Member States,” said Tusk (@eucopresident). #EUCOhttps://t.co/H64xK2vBjN
— EURACTIV (@EURACTIV) 3 juli 2019
The 2019 European elections: Together with @Arnold_Platon, we present the election results in almost 80,000 regions of Europe. https://t.co/5Cj4EnLtxT #ddj #dataviz
— Julius Tröger (@juliustroeger) 2 juli 2019
British researchers being shut out of bids for major European research partnerships, or asked to keep a low profile, due to fears that the threat of a no-deal #Brexit could contaminate chances of success. https://t.co/tj14xfCRU1 @CRUKresearch #EUfunding #HorizonEurope @uclnews
— CfSocialScience (@CfSocialScience) 3 juli 2019
