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Moving with the times tackling the World’s greatest challenges- the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2022
The latest THE Impact Ranking 2022 looks at 1,524 universities from 110 countries and regions and the results have just been announced.
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Barock'n roll
When one hears the term baroque, the image of chubby cherubs fluttering around stucco statues of saints in religious buildings dating from the 17th century often comes to mind.
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Champittet n°2 of the Best Employers by BILAN Magazine
Competing with EHL is a great challenge that we take up every year with confidence and courage. We are very proud to be getting closer and closer to the undisputed number one!
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The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021
I was waiting for this moment, impatient to see which universities would take the lead in the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2021 , the ranking which uses metrics based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), This, the ranking of universities which, according to a World Economic Forum article last year, are best placed to solve the world’s problems .
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Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
Well known to school children, parents and teachers in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland - JOM day is the “Journee Oser les Métiers,” when people are encouraged bring their children to work with them.
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La maîtrise de la langue au service de la pensée libre
De plus, si la langue évolue constamment sous l’effet des pratiques collectives - ou si elle est parfois artificiellement mue par les fantaisies de l’Académie française...- elle ne sollicite pas, du moins pas tout de suite, l’originalité individuelle des élèves et leur créativité propre : son étude perd ainsi tout attrait et se résume à un acte de mémorisation qui n’a plus bonne presse dans la pédagogie contemporaine.
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Speed is everything
A study by Dr Glenn Wilson at London’s Institute of Psychiatry in 2005 concluded that constant interruptions can have a similar effect to missing sleep. We have all heard the various estimates of so called ‘concentration’.
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L’inspiration au-delà de l’information
Prendre conscience qu'il est une partie d'un tout immense est la mission ultime de l'éducation.
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Breaking the cycle of shame
As a school, we can move away from a fear of failure, by opening ourselves up and being vulnerable.
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It is a brave new world: reopening our doors to students and boarders
In many ways, the pandemic has transformed our work, we have had to reinvent ourselves as teachers and educators, multitasking more than ever before, providing support over screens and messages and now helping our students and boarders negotiate a brave new world that none of us could have thought of just a few months ago...
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The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020- a brave new world?
Last year, 551 universities from 80 countries across 17 regions and 6 continents were asked to submit data for the ranking and 462 were ranked.  This year a further 291 universities have signed up to measure their own performance with regards to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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The Happiness Pill
To lead a meaningful life is to lead a creative life; they are not add-ons, the conditions for its development need to be integrated fully into every aspect of our working lives.
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Leading a boarding community through a pandemic : an unknown challenge
These have been truly testing times for communities and countries all over the world. Many of us will have never had to face the fallout of a global pandemic, and as such it has put undue pressure on schools all over the world, particularly those with boarding communities.
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Learning in a flexibly challenging world
It is also a timely reminder for me as an educator to consider the contemporary landscape of education.
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The ultimate source of happiness is to be found within
Of all the phases through human life and in developmental stages, childhood is the simplest and the easiest to make happy and joyful.
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La personnalisation face à l’individualisation
La raison d’être d’une école privée est d’offrir une alternative à l’école d’Etat, cela non seulement dans un but de performance académique mais plus encore dans celui de permettre un développement complet de la personne, ce qui inclut la dimension spirituelle mais aussi d’autres aspects comme l’éducation holistique (arts, confiance en soi, capacité à se connecter à autrui, sens de la responsabilité).
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Les démarches interdisciplinaires STEAM - MINT
Chacun peut observer l’importance grandissante du numérique et sa pénétration rapide dans tous les domaines. Une conséquence décisive en est qu’outre les compétences de travail en équipe et de communication, d’autonomie et d’adaptabilité, les étudiants doivent construire une véritable maîtrise de la culture MINT (Mathématiques, Informatique, sciences Naturelles, Technologie).
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« The School of Equality »- an update on happenings in Switzerland
The Swiss Constitution states that « Every person is equal before the law (and) the law shall ensure their equality, both in law and in practice, most particularly in the family, in education, and in the workplace. Men and women have the right to equal pay for work of equal value.»
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