Green Universities (News and Research 179)
Putin wanted Russian science to top the world. Then a huge academic scandal blew up.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
Lifelong Learning Subsidies Seen As Way To Aid Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs To Tech
New Report Explores The Global State Of Adult Education
Universities need to learn the early lessons of lifelong learning
The effects of exam scheduling on academic performance | Both the scheduling of exams and the time between exams affects student performance
The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China
Is a highly educated workforce good for less educated workers? | Interactions, Innovations, Purchasing power
Some recent World Bank @WBG_Education blogs (thanks to @JaimeSaavedra22):
Disruptive education to fight learning poverty in Latin America by Luis Benveniste, Helena Rovner and Emanuela di Gropello
How to tackle Learning Poverty? Delivering education’s promise to children across the world by Jaime Saavedra
Every refugee child deserves quality education by Keiko Miwa
Who will drop out of school? Leveraging management information systems to predict dropouts in Guatemala and Honduras by Melissa Alderman, Enrique Alasino and Francisco Haimovich
PISA 2018: Rich countries fail to impress; progress in some middle-income countries is apparent by Harry Patrinos and Jaime Saavedra
Ending learning poverty: the call of our times by Jaime Saavedra
Education, economics and public policy 