January Research, Science and Knowledge

Read the articles selected in January 2017

How student attitudes towards the value of education can be shaped by careers education – evidence from the OECD’s PISA study

by Antony Mann & Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel

Source: https://www.oecd.org/, 24 January

A multi-year OECD study of work-based learning aimed at youth at risk found evidence that the engagement of the working world in the educational process can improve both educational and occupational outcomes, increasing pupil motivation and application.

THE Alma Mater Index 2017: who educates the global business elite?

by John Elmes

Source: Times Higher Education, 19 January

After THE Alma Mater Index 2017, the universities that have educated the greatest number of chief executives of the richest companies present in the Fortune rankings, reflect the strength of their countries’ higher education systems and the central role that higher education plays in a country’s economic prosperity.

Closing global achievement gaps in MOOCs

by René F. Kizilcec, Andrew J. Saltarelli, Justin Reich & Geoffrey L. Cohen

Source: Science, 20 January

39% of students enrolled in MOOCs between 2012 and 2015 are from less-developed countries, but although the global educational gap is reduced through these courses, MOOCs do not spread benefits equitably across all regions because of the cognitive burden of one’s social identity.

On the cutting edge of Research: the Open Access challenge

by David Oliva Uribe

Source: http://eua.be/

Open Science and Open Innovation synthesize the EU engagement for the translation of innovation ventures, scientific knowledge and research results in tangible benefits for society. EUA is supporting universities in their transition to Open Science. Four articles collect expert opinions on the topic.

Un hub della ricerca al servizio della collettività

by Fabrizia Sernia

Source: http://www.rivistauniversitas.it/

Human Technopole is an Italian project of cutting-edge biomedical research with a multidisciplinary approach that includes the sciences of life, big data e nanotechnologies and intends creating a science sustainable and inclusive, for a better quality of life.

EU Copyright Reform: EUA and leading research groups push for more change

Source: http://eua.be/, 12 January

EUA has proposed to modify current EU copyright reform, in particular about Text and Data mining and the limitations in the use of information technologies, to give legal certainty to research activities related to data use and the new digital techniques.

VR: a new dimension in learning?

by David Matthews

Source: Times Higher Education, 5 January

Education is predicted to be a $700 million market for the use of VR by 2025. They explain the benefits of VR, in particular in medicine universities, not only with the 3D models' complexity but also with the hierarchy of experiences we do, where reading is less impressive than doing and saying.

Costs and benefits in vocational education and training

by Kathrin Hoeckel

Source: http://www.oecd.org/

This provisional study shows despite the methodological difficulties in comparing labor markets in different countries that individuals with VET qualifications are better paid than those without post-school qualifications, but this is evident only in relation to early school leavers.

Consulta l’articolo:

http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/41538706.pdf

Sat-nav neurons tell bats where to go

by Alison Abbott

Source: Nature, 12 January

Bats have cells in the hippocampus that determine the distance, direction, and angle of their flight to a goal. Since these vector cells are memory-based, rather than sensory-based, this finding seems promising for Alzheimer’s research.

Historians make the best healthcare workers

by Emily Michelson

Source: Times Higher Education, 22 January

Humanities and science complement each other. A historical analysis is important for a medical diagnosis and treatment. The study of history is important to argue and think critically, from the point a view not only of a doctor but also of a patient that asks his doctors.

The role of social scientist in an age of anti-science

by Victoria Herrmann

Source: University World News, 16 December 2016

Researchers have the task to prevent the climate change denial and to foster both in the public opinion and in policy-makers a genuine and common sense of responsibility about the environment beyond the communication of hard scientific findings.

Two –fifths of scholars “more likely to quit UK” after Brexit vote

by John Morgan

Source: Times Higher Education, 9 January

A survey in the UK found forty-two percent of British academics and 76 percent of European academics living in the country more likely to leave the UK after the Brexit vote, and a 44 percent turned out to have lost access to research fundings as a result of the referendum.

Universities must use metrics to prevent HE “catastrophe”

by Ellie Bothwell

Source: Times Higher Education, 19 December 2016

The higher education has become a system likely to be shut down if the institutions don’t get used to proving their objective value with deep, transparent and nuanced metrics that report what return of investment they produce for students and investors.

Structural reforms can be inclusive; it all depends on the details

by Orsetta Causa, Mikkel Hermansen & Nicolas Ruiz

Source: www.oecd.org, 5 January

Structural reforms can aim to target both growth and equity objectives. As important as the ability to increase the living standards for the majority of citizens is taking into account the effects of a reform at all points of the income distribution, including the bottom.

Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change

Source: The Economist, 14 January

As a date of fact, lifelong learning mainly serves skilled and advantaged workers. As a rule, it has to become routinely accessible, supported by governments and trade unions. Education in the schools should be not narrowly vocational, but adaptable, general and metacognitive.

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