Students from Europe would rather invest in stocks and bonds than in their own education. OECD's education export Andreas Schleicher points out that the economic rationale for this behavior is lacking.
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| Don't compete, learn |
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What use is it to compare school pupils to each other? Sweden introduced an individual goal based system that takes each pupil to his next level. Swedish Ambassador Håkan Emsgård explains the specifics of his countries' school system.
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| Erasmus gives birth to loan |
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There it suddenly was in the revised Erasmus Programme: the 'EU loan guarantee facility'. Why was it introduced? And why are students not over their heads with joy? MEP Isabelle Thomas thinks that in the long run loans will substitute grants.
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| Learning analytics |
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The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) not only revolutionizes the scale of education, it also gives in-depth data about learning, says Corneel den Hartogh from start-up Perceptum. "When do students pause, repeat, or get bored?"
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| Outsourcing your brains |
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The 'gaping holes' in America's industrial landscape have a thorough effect on the country's innovative capabilities. MIT wrote an alarming study and looks to Germany for ideas.
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| Fired by solar fuel |
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Why not link the abundance of solar energy to the existing energy infrastructure? The trick is activating gas mixtures by sunlight, but the process requires big amounts of CO. A bottleneck solved in 10 years, thinks Richard Engeln (Eindhoven).
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