Have you ever heard of seniors who invented something amazing? If you have a great idea, why not try and market it, no matter your age? Benjamin Franklin was nearly 80 years old when he invented bifocals, which allow so many people to see clearly, both near and far away. You may be sitting on […] … learn more→

With record-breaking heat waves, wildfires and floods, 2021 may be the year we finally wake up to climate change. According to the most recent assessment of the International Panel on Climate Change, the effects are now “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Many impacts are irreversible and changes to oceans, ice sheets and sea levels will persist for thousands of years. […] … learn more→

Educational models are required to transform through innovation. This must happen in two ways: to provide the person with the skills they need in the present – in this sense, they must be updated – and those they will need in the future – in this sense, they must be futurized -. Both requirements are incompatible with customs and educational inertia. […] … learn more→

Harvard University will keep phasing out all investments tied to oil, gas and coal, it announced on Sept. 9, 2021. When Larry Bacow, the school’s president, announced this plan, he cast it as a response to climate change – part of a broader trend that’s gaining steam among many large institutions with endowments. “We must act now as […] … learn more→

We no longer count the books, films, advertisements, putting forward the idea that with the will, it is always possible to achieve success, even if we start from little. It is true that to think that with the effort and the will, one can progress, represents a real source of motivation for the school tasks. However, the talent and […] … learn more→

Over the past two decades, Australian governments have committed exorbitant energy and resources to transform our nation’s schools. The driving force behind many reforms has been a narrative of panic and failure, often centred on the steady decline of Australian students on the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). When Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge announced yet another review of […] … learn more→

A dialogue in which one begins by asking the other “Where do you want us to shoot?” and the other says “in many places, but we start wherever you want” is a real dialogue. And that is what María Benjumea and Ana Simoneta Rubido, along with Juan Zafra, starred in the third session of the First Intergenerational […] … learn more→

“Why are my employees leaving my organisation?”. “What can I do to make my valuable employees stay at my organisation?”. “What makes employees stay in their employment?”. Employers have been asking these questions for a long time. Let’s be honest, hiring and firing, and continuously having to recruit, select, orient and train new employees is costly on […] … learn more→

More Australian 15 year olds feel they are familiar with global issues such as climate change, migration, causes of poverty and equality between men and women than the OECD average. But only 8% of Australian students say they are learning two or more foreign languages, compared to 50% of students across OECD countries. These are […] … learn more→

Occasionally I offer strategies that you can try to see if they work for you. If they do, and not everything works for everybody, then you can add them to your academic writing repertoire. Today I’ve got an exercise designed to support diagnosis of your own writing weaknesses. In the quiet of your own work […] … learn more→