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11/05/2025

The Degree Dilemma: How AI Cheating & Stagnation Are Reshaping Higher Education and Careers

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Bullet Point Summary: 🎓 Political Divide: College education levels are increasingly correlated with political affiliations, highlightin...
10/05/2025

Creating Your Own Current: A Lesson in Resistance and Resilience

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The Inherited Stagnation – A University Adrift For the 22-year-old navigating a world of expectations, a world that often nudges you towar...
30/04/2025

The Honest Truth About High Expectations and Feedback in Teaching

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Introduction Observing colleagues, and reflecting on my own practice through the lens of my teaching philosophy, brings two fundamental tens...
28/04/2025

The High School to University Transition: Essential AI and Human-Centric Skills for Success

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​How to  ​navigate  the transition from IGCSE Business to the IB program and university choices, specifically considering the significant im...
20/04/2025

GenAI - A Tale of Two Uses: The Office and The Home

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Introduction The landscape of Generative AI adoption is evolving rapidly. A recent follow-up study published in Harvard Business Review she...
19/04/2025

Harvard Draws a Line: Financial Risk, Academic Freedom, and the Resistance

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The Confrontation - Autonomy Under Siege Tensions between the Trump administration and the higher education sector culminated recently when...
04/04/2025

Beyond Personal Choice: Political Climate and the Exodus of US Scholars

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A High-Profile Departure A notable shift is occurring in the academic landscape as three prominent Yale University professors, all known fo...
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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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