On the Agenda – Week 39, 2019
Take 1 –Education
Het anti-elitisme van Jeremy Corbyn vindt al z’n weg in het onderwijsbeleid. Een Tunesische professor leidt de strijd om de presidentsverkiezingen en de weerstand van Narendra Modi tegen het hoger onderwijs.
Corbyn’s speech on setting ‘the people’ before ‘the privileged’ expressed a mood of anti-elitism already feeding through into education policy, writes @JMorganTHEhttps://t.co/vup5AL88IG
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) September 25, 2019
University professor leads the presidential race in #Tunisia but a higher education debate is absent. Wagdy Sawahel reports. #highered #HEhttps://t.co/7SVVGwV4GF pic.twitter.com/3bXdquYE56
— UniversityWorldNews (@uniworldnews) September 25, 2019
Education Department inquiry into Middle East studies program jointly operated by Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill raises academic freedom concerns https://t.co/vFLbO3rwN8
— Inside Higher Ed (@insidehighered) September 25, 2019
Knowledge is the core of this capital, but that our #PMModi has a deep-rooted contempt towards #highereducation is an open secret https://t.co/5GSxcpman1
— National Herald (@NH_India) September 20, 2019
Take 2 –Research
Overheidssteun voor wetenschap is door de jaren heen nogal wisselend geweest in de Verenigde Staten. Nieuw onderzoek laat zien dat oceanen nog steeds warmer worden en de poolkappen blijven smelten. Een de sterker wordende greep van China op de Amerikaanse wetenschap.
How has government support for science changed through history? https://t.co/PoubEoOr7v
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) September 25, 2019
A new international science report says the world’s oceans are getting warmer, rising higher, losing oxygen and and melting even more ice and snow. The report says these changes will harm people, plants, animals, food, and more. https://t.co/kFYeNACfi7
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 25, 2019
The FBI has long warned that China could use talent-recruitment programs to lure U.S. university professors into improperly sharing their research. Scoop from @aviswanatha @Kate_OKeeffe https://t.co/cTiEaCmr0k
— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) September 24, 2019
Google accidentally made computer science history last week. Its quantum computer performed a task in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 100,000 years. https://t.co/Ud7KAw7z2u
— WIRED Science (@WIREDScience) September 24, 2019
Take 3 – Indonesia
Alles over Indonesië waar de protesten van studenten toenemen, ondanks de bloedige reactie van de politie daarop.
Indonesia student protests against law changes enter third day https://t.co/KzHxmXrtB9 pic.twitter.com/eX4yee7pSd
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 25, 2019
Thousands of student protesters have taken to the streets of Indonesia to oppose a controversial draft criminal code that would make consensual sex outside of marriage illegal https://t.co/0KQ2LNeOZH
— CNN (@CNN) September 25, 2019
Indonesia’s higher education: A sleeping giant? #jakpost https://t.co/HQt8sg71OG
— The Jakarta Post (@jakpost) August 19, 2019
GDP growth, 2019
India: 7.3%
China: 6.3%
Indonesia: 5.2%
Pakistan: 2.9%
US: 2.3%
Brazil: 2.1%
Spain: 2.1%
Nigeria: 2.1%
Netherlands: 1.8%
Saudi: 1.8%
Russia: 1.6%
Canada: 1.5%
France: 1.3%
UK: 1.2%
S Africa: 1.2%
Germany: 0.8%
Italy: 0.1%
Japan: 1%
Turkey: -2.5%
Iran: -6%
(IMF)
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) September 25, 2019
