05/10/2026

China's Education Miracle — and Its Blind Spot: Rankings, Robots, and the Missing Humanities

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Two recent analyses — one dissecting the THE 2027 World University Rankings [1] and another reporting from the ground at WorldDidac Asia 202...
04/10/2026

Don’t Ban the Bot, Protect the Pedagogy: A Practical AI Governance Framework for Secondary Schools

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Adapting Higher Education Validity Models to Meet the Realities of Secondary Classrooms When Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) overh...
03/10/2026

In Memoriam Jeffrey Williamson: The Greatest Teacher I Never Had

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Remembering Jeffrey G. Williamson (1935–29 August 2026), and what he taught me about humility, honesty and showing up for students The New...
01/09/2026

The Californian Ideology: Why AI Companies Think the Way They Do, and What Education Can Do About It

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 If you want to understand why today's leading AI companies behave the way they do, prioritizing scale and monopoly over caution, treati...
31/08/2026

When Washington Dreams of the Moon, Europe Worries About Climate Change and the Power Bill

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Reflections on the White House "Golden Age of Science" interview, and what its comment section tells us that the interview itself ...
26/08/2026

The ARWU Ranking Has 500 Seats. China Brought 71 New Universities in 2020

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Introduction Every August when ARWU university rankings are published, the same headlines return. A German university has slipped out of the...
24/08/2026

The Dozen Universities Behind China's Tech Dominance (And Why "They Just Spend More" Misses the Point)

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Introduction Ask almost anyone why China now leads the world in solar patents, battery research, and semiconductor publications, and you wil...