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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...
28/12/2025

Italy's Education Revolution: From Brain Drain to Skills Engine by 2026

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Introduction (Italian version at the end) For decades, Italy's education system has been synonymous with a peculiar contradiction. A co...
27/12/2025

The Kids Are Alright (If We Let Them Be)

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In the popular imagination, the generational landscape is a battlefield. We obsess over the skirmishes between Boomers and Zoomers, and we d...
23/12/2025

Steel Tracks, Copper Wires: How British Capital Stitched Italy Together Before Unification

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Abstract: The fragmented Italian peninsula before unification (Risorgimento) presented both a logistical challenge and a lucrative opportun...
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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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