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Teaching Leadership

Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria :It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published their pioneering work,...

Tribute to Prof Momen

Md Shafiul Alam :It is hard to believe that Professor Abdul Momen is no more with us. He left us on 10 May 2016. Prof Momen was a wonderful human being and an empathetic...

Upgrading School

John Kim :It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding.Consider AltSchool, the idea...

The main purpose of schooling

Michael McPherson :Beyond what education contributes to one’s knowledge and skills, it also provides credentials that attest to that experience, signaling to potential employers that a job candidate might possess certain qualities they seek....

Tech based communication

Sarah Brown Wessling :It’s never been about the newest technology – a printing press, a computer, an app – but it has always been about the creative ways in which teachers use technology to...

Poverty in UK education

Lola Okolosie :As A-level exams draw nearer, I have returned to teaching Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. A cautionary tale on being wedded to an ideal that is unattainable, it has left my...

Are PhDs just cheap labour for universities?

Rachel Hall :When Karin Bodewits started her PhD in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh, she felt “excited and privileged, brimming with hope”. Over the following four years, her enthusiasm waned. “That seems...

Teaching kindness in schools

Campus Desk :Most people have heard the phrase ‘random acts of kindness’, which refers to a selfless act of giving resulting in the happiness of another person. Terms like this are increasing in popularity...