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Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.
TELOS meetings: education and entrepreneurship, keys to the future

TELOS meetings: education and entrepreneurship, keys to the future

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→

Turnover is high in South Africa’s higher education sector: what could turn the tide

Turnover is high in South Africa’s higher education sector: what could turn the tide

“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→

Australian students say they understand global issues, but few are learning another language compared to the OECD average

Australian students say they understand global issues, but few are learning another language compared to the OECD average

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→

Revision – the “make it better” exercise

Revision – the “make it better” exercise

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→

Sustainability must start with universities if the fashion industry is to change

Sustainability must start with universities if the fashion industry is to change

With six weeks to go until COP26, the delayed 2020 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, many people are considering how their personal and professional behaviour can help tackle the climate crisis. This includes rethinking the extent to which we are defined by our consumption or our citizenship. Academics recognise the widespread consensus, demonstrated through a global […] … learn more→

Post-pandemic education: after the shock, let's stick with the good stuff

Post-pandemic education: after the shock, let’s stick with the good stuff

There are those who think, and defend, that the 21st century began in March 2020. If we analyze this assertion from the educational field, we can conclude that it is not going wrong. We lived (and we live) in the communications, information and technology society, with a multitude of resources at our service (telematics platforms, videoconferencing […] … learn more→

Positive and negative impact of online education on students

Positive and negative impact of online education on students

Technology has been an integral part of our life. The Internet, smartphones, and television are indispensable parts of most of our lives. Hence it is difficult to avoid its interference in our daily activities. The impact of technology isn’t limited to entertainment. The education sector is widely affected by it too. The advancement in technology […] … learn more→

Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert

Wondering what to do with kids in lockdown school holidays? Ideas from a happiness expert

School holidays are upon us again. In pre-pandemic days, many parents and carers would be busily planning holidays interstate or overseas, booking in play dates, organising day trips or tee-ing up visits to family and friends. Instead, a significant amount of us are in lockdown (still), living with restrictions and likely working from home. School […] … learn more→

Pandemic prompts more teachers to consider early retirement or new career

Pandemic prompts more teachers to consider early retirement or new career

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced teachers’ commitment to remain in the classroom, our study on teacher turnover found. When schools resumed classes in the fall of 2020, teachers faced a host of new challenges. These included things such as adapting to combinations of in-person, hybrid and remote learning models and managing health concerns during the pandemic. As a […] … learn more→