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23/03/2026

The Structural Collapse of Welsh Higher Education: Why the People in Charge Are the Last to Feel It

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  A critical analysis of Dr. Albert Schram's landmark paper on governance failure, executive insulation, and financial unsustainability ...
01/03/2026

From Water to Air: The Po Valley's 3,000-Year Environmental Reckoning

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Why one of Europe's wealthiest regions is choking on its own success — and what history tells us about the way out. There is a stretch...
01/02/2026

When a Canal Changed Everything: Lessons from the Suez Revolution of 1869

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How a 19th-century infrastructure project reshuffled the winners and losers of global trade and what it tells us about our own age of disrup...
18/01/2026

The Filter and the Fire: A Tale of Two Assessments

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Introduction The silence in my 8:00 AM "Business Management" class was deafening. Just forty-eight hours earlier, I had sat in my ...

The Signal is Fading: Why AI Demands a Radical Resurrection of the Liberal Arts Degree

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  Introduction We have long romanticized the university as a sanctuary of pure learning, but economists understand it functions largely as a...
11/01/2026

The Solomon Islands’ Bold Education Overhaul: Leading the Pacific’s Post-TES Transformation

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Executive Summary Since the 2022 Transforming Education Summit (TES), the 12 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) have moved from ...
01/01/2026

Anne Parry: The English Teacher Who Became a Voice for Peace and Human Rights in Italy

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Introduction The sudden demise of Anne Parry, the Secretary of the European Federalist Movement of Valpolicella has affected many people, no...
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Albert Schram, Ph.D.
Albert Schram is an economic historian from Italy and the Netherlands. He was Vice-Chancellor at a university, but now he teaches business management, marketing, humanities, economics, social sciences, and entrepreneurship both in secondary school and at university. With his wife, he lives in Singapore, a beautiful city on the Singapore straight, bordering Malaysia and Indonesia. Throughout his career, Albert has lived in 11 different countries in Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He's worked as a teacher, executive, coach, consultant, and trainer and lived a total of 19+ years outside Europe. He got his master's degree from the University of Utrecht and his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy where he studied European economic history. His doctoral thesis on the origins of Italian railways was published as a book by Cambridge University Press. In addition, Albert has also studied international relations at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands. He's dedicated to educational leadership and management, which led him to become fellow of the Executive Leadership Academy of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley.
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