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30/11/2025

The AI Trap: Why Solving Teacher Workload Isn't Enough (And What to Do Instead)

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As an educator and researcher, I see the same look on the faces of school leaders everywhere: a mixture of excitement and anxiety. The wave ...

The AI-Driven Educational Renaissance: Bridging the Innovation Gap through Systems Design and Pedagogical Mastery

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Summary The Fourth Industrial Revolution, catalyzed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a General Purpose Technology (GPT), presents an unpre...
29/11/2025

Learning is Like Growing a Tree: we will do it faster and better

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Introduction Imagine a big garden. In this garden, we plant seeds. These seeds are like students. We want them to grow into big, strong tree...
27/11/2025

From the Forum to the Feed: Why Sulla, and the Threats Against Senator Mark Kelly Show Us That a Classical Education Still Matters

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  From the Forum to the Feed: Why Sulla, and the Threats Against Senator Mark Kelly Show Us That a Classical Education Still Matters In the...
24/11/2025

Your PhD is a Toolkit, Not a Destination

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Today, 32 years ago, the European University Institute conferred me a full-time, research doctorate.  The world of learning, for me, began m...
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...
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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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