Life is a Journey of Learning

Nobody can take away your education, nobody can deny it.

23/03/2026

The Structural Collapse of Welsh Higher Education: Why the People in Charge Are the Last to Feel It

›
  A critical analysis of Dr. Albert Schram's landmark paper on governance failure, executive insulation, and financial unsustainability ...
01/03/2026

From Water to Air: The Po Valley's 3,000-Year Environmental Reckoning

›
Why one of Europe's wealthiest regions is choking on its own success — and what history tells us about the way out. There is a stretch...
01/02/2026

When a Canal Changed Everything: Lessons from the Suez Revolution of 1869

›
How a 19th-century infrastructure project reshuffled the winners and losers of global trade and what it tells us about our own age of disrup...
18/01/2026

The Filter and the Fire: A Tale of Two Assessments

›
Introduction The silence in my 8:00 AM "Business Management" class was deafening. Just forty-eight hours earlier, I had sat in my ...

The Signal is Fading: Why AI Demands a Radical Resurrection of the Liberal Arts Degree

›
  Introduction We have long romanticized the university as a sanctuary of pure learning, but economists understand it functions largely as a...
11/01/2026

The Solomon Islands’ Bold Education Overhaul: Leading the Pacific’s Post-TES Transformation

›
Executive Summary Since the 2022 Transforming Education Summit (TES), the 12 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) have moved from ...
01/01/2026

Anne Parry: The English Teacher Who Became a Voice for Peace and Human Rights in Italy

›
Introduction The sudden demise of Anne Parry, the Secretary of the European Federalist Movement of Valpolicella has affected many people, no...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.