Pour concurencer les Etats-Unis, à la pointe dans ce domaine, des universités britanniques lancent une plateforme en ligne où leurs cours seront disponibles gratuitement. (...) - Le Figaro, par Quentin BlancPublié le 18/12/2012
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President Barack Obama signed a law yesterday that eliminates a requirement that many high-level government employees' financial holdings be posted online in a public database. This revision of the so-called STOCK Act brought relief to researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, who called the requirement an invasion of privacy and warned that it would drive researchers to leave the government. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Jocelyn Kaiser on 16 April 2013 Delete the scoop?
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The European Commission has set up a science advisory body that will report directly to its president, José Manuel Barroso.
The Science and Technology Advisory Council will identify areas where research and innovation can contribute to Europe's growth—with a particular focus on benefits and risks of science and technology advances and how to communicate these. The group, similar to one advising President Barack Obama in the United States, held its first meeting in Brussels today. It is made up of 15 members drawn mostly from academia, including Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, an influential climate scientist from Germany; French mathematician Cédric Villani, who was a Fields medalist in 2010; and Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath, who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2009. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Tania Rabesandratana, With Reporting by Kai Kupferschmidt on 27 February 2013 Delete the scoop?
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The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.(...) - The New York Times, by JOHN MARKOFF, February 17, 2013 Delete the scoop?
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Les trois grands débats Obama Romney pour la présidentielle se sont tenus dans des universités privées, qui en tirent un gros bénéfice de publicité. (...) - Nouvel Obs, par Patrick Fauconnier, 07/11/2012 Delete the scoop?
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Some science agencies fare well in US president’s budget request, but proposal will meet stiff resistance. US President Barack Obama released a budget plan on 10 April for fiscal year 2014 that proposes US$143 billion for research and development across the federal government, an increase of about 1% above 2012 levels. (...) Nature, by Lauren Morello, Natasha Gilbert, Beth Mole... 11 April 2013 Delete the scoop?
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As a back-up to President Obama's State of the Union speech, the White House has released The President's Plan for a Strong Middle Class and a Strong America. A much commented-on sentence in a section with the challenging title Holding colleges accountable for cost, value and quality reads: (...) - blog Changing Higher Education, by Lloyd Armstrong, February 15, 2013 Delete the scoop?
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President Barack Obama didn't mention accreditation in his State of the Union address last Tuesday. But in a supplemental document released after the speech, the president made it clear that he is seeking major changes in the accountability system for higher education, writes Eric Kelderman for The Chronicle of Higher Education. (...) - University World News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 February 2013, Issue No:259 Delete the scoop?
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Barack Obama est désormais assuré d'être le président des Etats-Unis pour un nouveau mandat de quatre ans. Le candidat démocrate a pu faire la différence, face à Mitt Romney, notamment grâce à l'aide financière de plusieurs établissements universitaires américains ! (...) - par Julien Pompey, Orientations, 7/11/2012 Delete the scoop?
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