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Focus on: Is home-schooling during the pandemic exacerbating gender inequalities?

14 December 2020

"Women are working more, men are understanding their value as caregivers, women are primary breadwinners — I mean, we could go on and on and on. Things are different. So we can't keep operating like everything is the same, and that's what many of us have done. And I think it's up to us to change the conversation." Michelle Obama

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Focus on: the European Higher Education Area after two decades of the Bologna Process - a brief look back

16 November 2020

Remember how far you’ve come, not how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. Rick Warren

 

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Focus on: Can online education ever be safe?

25 May 2020

The students of the future will demand the learning support that is appropriate for their situation or context. Nothing more, nothing less, Dr. Marcus Specht

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Focus on: Can the coronavirus pandemic improve our schools?

06 May 2020

The universe is not short on wake up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button, Brene Brown

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Focus on: What has the covid-19 crisis taught us about online teaching?

25 April 2020
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery, Mark Van Doren
 
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How should students be admitted to higher education this year?

20 April 2020
Education is not preparation for life: education is life itself, John Dewey
 
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Focus On: Digital learning environments – the best way forward?

21 June 2019

“With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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How can schools support the development of our democracies?

18 June 2019

"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." ― Mahatma Gandhi

In many countries, political debate is becoming ever more polarised. Fuelled by amoral media seeking out scandal and dispute, contemporary politics thrives on controversy and opposing views. But is this black and white world view positive for our democracy? What has happened to respectful dialogue, and to listening to each other's position? And what about the art of compromise?

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How can education contribute to awareness and action on climate change?

18 June 2019

"We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations." – Greta Thunberg

Climate change is a topic unlike any other. While the prospect of human-induced global destruction may sometimes seem too overwhelming to address, everyone has a part to play in halting it. This is the message of a major social movement of schoolchildren that has risen up in response to the inadequate actions of our politicians. But if we all need to act differently, what does this imply for the way in which we educate our children?

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Focus On: Should immigrants be taught in their mother tongue at schools?

18 March 2019

Should immigrants be taught in their mother tongue at schools?

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides' – Ishmael Beah

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