Congratulations on PhD graduation! But what’s next? To be frank, I do not know. Don’t take me wrong, I’m not saying I do not have life goals. In fact, I am very clear about the kind of person I want to be. I’m driven by curiosity, I like listening to people’s thoughts and ideas, and […] … learn more→

It took a Nobel Prize before Canadian physicist Donna Strickland got promoted to a full professorship. As anecdotal evidence that women have to prove themselves even more than men to earn a job promotion, her story is hard to beat. Looking deeper, it’s more complex than outright sexism. Strickland herself dismissed suggestions her career had ever been stymied […] … learn more→

Children are involved in scientific thinking and activities before they even enter the classroom. They seek knowledge in various ways: stabbing, pulling, tasting, hitting, shaking and trying. This shows the natural needs in each child to learn and find problems to solve . By creating opportunities to observe and move through games, children’s scientific thinking can be aroused. Playing offers a valuable […] … learn more→

Theory is explanation. Last post I suggested that this understanding might help to reduce fear of theory. This week, another piece in the fright reduction puzzle. Something else that might help reduce fear of theory is the understanding that not every piece of research uses theory. But all research, regardless of its aims and objectives and […] … learn more→

Around 50,000,000 people have student loans (more official numbers are like 45,000,000, but I dispute their accounting methods). The bulk of these people have taken these loans in exchange for worthless college credits, while perhaps 20% actually managed to get a degree, with the value of such a degree varying from $0 to, well, something […] … learn more→

President Joko Widodo often touched the performance of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemristekdikti) regarding the competitiveness of universities in Indonesia which he considered to be unsatisfactory. Lastly, last October, Jokowi was surprised why only three universities (PTs) had succeeded in entering the world’s top 2018 universities in 2018 version of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) . The President […] … learn more→

Neuroscience has found a clear relationship between music and language acquisition. Bluntly: learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read. Both activities share a network superimposed on the brain. From an evolutionary perspective, the human brain developed the acquisition of music much earlier than that of language and then used that […] … learn more→

It is high time that the learning of curiosity prevails over that of submission. This is the “credo” on which Learn in the 21st century is based , the important and fascinating contribution that François Taddei has just made to the reflection on the future of the school and the issues of knowledge. If we want to progress towards a “learning […] … learn more→

How to respond to requirements that arise from the provision of knowledge in contexts where requests for technical expertise in health or medical intervention are increasing? In June 2018, at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar, we presented for the first time our collective book Tu seras docteur.e mon enfant , in the presence of […] … learn more→

This week the government asked former High Court Chief Justice Robert French to head an inquiry into free speech on universities. Education minister Dan Tehan claimed it was because concerns had been raised about people shutting down the views of those they disagree with, and security costs for controversial speakers on campus. Universities are accusing the minister of “jumping to the […] … learn more→