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24/12/2015

India & Papua New Guinea

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First Impressions Count With a population of almost 1.3 billion people India is the second most populous country after China, and the wor...

The Climate Just Changed For The Better: the Paris Deal at COP21 on 12 December 2015

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05/12/2015

Papua New Guinea: failing to develop or developing to fail?

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Lecture given on 4 December at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. Dr. Albert Schram,  Vice Chancellor Papua New Guinea Univers...
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11/08/2015

The Skills Gap Illusion

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Title: The Communication and Development Studies Curriculum at Papua New Guinea University of Technology: is it meeting industry requireme...
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24/07/2015

Public Universities: get the basics right, management in, and the politicians out

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The Role of Public Universities It makes me sad to read about the state of some public universities in low and middle income countries. ...

Dr. Tom Pynn - Remembrance Day: Challenging Us to Build a Culture of Peace

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In Honor of the first Students’ Peace and Leadership Conference Papua New Guinea University of Technology, July 23, 2015 (video here ) ...
20/07/2015

On being a good university (part 3)

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Speech for the installation of the Industrial Advisory Committee on 20 July 2014 Ladies and Gentlemen: Today marks a milestone for the...
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Albert Schram, Ph.D.
Albert Schram is an economic historian from Italy and the Netherlands, and former Vice-Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. He now teaches business management, marketing, economics, social sciences, humanities, and entrepreneurship at both secondary and university level. Over a career spanning 11 countries across Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific — including more than 19 years outside Europe — Albert has worked as a teacher, executive, coach, consultant, and trainer. He and his wife lived for six years in Papua New Guinea, a beautiful country north of Australia, and a year in Singapore. He holds a master's degree from the University of Utrecht and a PhD in European economic history from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His doctoral thesis on the origins of the Italian railways was published as a book by Cambridge University Press. He has also studied international relations at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands. Albert is dedicated to educational leadership and management, and is a Fellow of the Executive Leadership Academy at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education.
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