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24/07/2019

A Childhood Dream: Experiences of a Vice-Chancellor in Papua New Guinea (1)

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Introduction & Background It has been an extraordinary privilege for me to serve two terms, a total of more than 6 years as Vice Chan...
18/03/2019

UNITECH: Beware of Ministers Bearing (Small) Gifts

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The recent visit by Minister Richard Maru to the Papua New Guinea University of Technology UNITECH, where he donated a few hundred thousand...
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19/01/2019

29 January 2019 Case Dismissed: Reflections on My Time at the PNG University of Technology

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29 January 2019 Case Dismissed: Reflections on My Time at the PNG University of Technology Today I learned that the "false pretence...
09/01/2019

My story and my PNG traditional storyboard

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My story board This beautiful traditional storyboard was made by Henry, a Papua New Guinean artist from Sepik, after I returned from m...
18/12/2018

Hooray! Regression Back to How it Was Before for UNITECH

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(Updated in May 2020. The "Hooray!" in the title is cynically used, and refers back to an earlier Hooray ! article when #UNITECH ...
15/09/2018

A Trojan Horse as a Birthday Gift for PNG's 43rd Independence Day

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Happy 43rd Independence Day Let me wish all the good people of Papua New Guinea a happy 43rd independence day celebration with their fa...
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27/05/2018

A Sad Ending: wrongful dismissal, malicious prosecution and unlawful detention

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My Arrest Now that I have safely left Papua New Guinea, I finally feel free to write about what happened after my arrest at Jacksons Air...
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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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