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18/10/2025

The Education Money Myth: A Data Analysis of 12 EU Nations Reveals Why Some Countries Get Top PISA Scores for Less.

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Executive Summary This analysis investigates the correlation between per-student education expenditure and student performance, as measured ...

Are We Teaching All Wrong? Frequency vs. Effectiveness and a Surprising Negative Correlation

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Executive Summary This report provides a comparative analysis of the frequency and effectiveness of eight widely used pedagogical methods ac...
04/10/2025

From Horsepower to AI: How the Spirit of Bugatti Inspires a New Generation of Innovators in Ferrara

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(qui sotto la versione in Italiano) There is a certain magic that lingers in the air of Ferrara. It’s a city of Renaissance walls and quiet ...
20/06/2025

A Guide for Papua New Guinean Students Seeking Scholarships to Study Abroad

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Navigating International Scholarships Introduction As the former Vice-Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (UNITECH),...
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...
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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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