24/08/2026

Your Universities Didn't Get Worse. The Scoreboard Ran Out of Seats

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Every August, the same ritual plays out. The Shanghai Ranking, formally the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), publishes its lis...
21/08/2026

Who Runs the University? Governance for the Age of AI

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A three-part explainer on university governance in Europe, the rhetoric that blocks reform, and the systemic changes the Fourth Industrial R...
06/08/2026

Italy Teaches Business. It's Time to Let Students Do Business

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By Gabby Goetz, Makena Maddigan, and Albert Schram, Ph.D. USAC Verona, International Business Program Italy is a nation of entrepreneurs. N...
04/08/2026

Why Is Everyone in Europe Talking About "Competitiveness"?

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  First, what does "competitiveness" even mean? Imagine a shop on a street with ten other shops selling similar things. If your ...

Europe’s €30 Billion Bet on “Giga AI Factories”

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 What It Means for Universities and Research The European Union’s plan to build seven “AI gigafactories” is not only an industrial policy in...
27/07/2026

Be the leader

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Leadership Under Crisis Aboard the Rose Noelle On 4 June 1989, a homemade 12-metre trimaran capsized in the Southern Ocean and drifted ups...
17/07/2026

Give Peace A Chance: Legal Implications of the Israel-Palestine conflict by Professor Clive A. Stafford Smith

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Here is the link to the original Gresham lecture and the version on Youtube . Italian version of summary below. Summary Here's a 10-poi...