How we assess education matters
The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
Curriculum and textbooks as weapons
Does “simplifying” the curriculum really guarantee that children will not be able to pace themselves in higher studies?
Ethics, happiness, and mental health for education
When a student is in a place of despair, on the brink of taking their own life, what does one do as a teacher?
Is education only about earning money?
We need a peak in social consciousness, and not just in our GDP.
University: Our factory of miseducation
Universities should be about creating the next generation of thinkers, right? Even in terms of skills, haven’t we been failing largely?
TVET and our skills ‘fetish’
There is an inherent bias in our thinking when we imagine the aspirations and career trajectories of students from different socio-economic backgrounds.
School choice: Celebrating, not eliminating, variety
We rarely think about the fact that individuals studying under different education streams may have different perceptions of what being educated means and may have different educational goals and aspirations.
Educating education: An academic's two cents on education reform
Today, students are still subjected to, more or less, the same so-called education that we or our seniors experienced.
December 14, 2023
How we assess education matters
The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
November 25, 2023
Curriculum and textbooks as weapons
Does “simplifying” the curriculum really guarantee that children will not be able to pace themselves in higher studies?
November 12, 2023
Ethics, happiness, and mental health for education
When a student is in a place of despair, on the brink of taking their own life, what does one do as a teacher?
October 28, 2023
Is education only about earning money?
We need a peak in social consciousness, and not just in our GDP.
October 14, 2023
University: Our factory of miseducation
Universities should be about creating the next generation of thinkers, right? Even in terms of skills, haven’t we been failing largely?
September 30, 2023
TVET and our skills ‘fetish’
There is an inherent bias in our thinking when we imagine the aspirations and career trajectories of students from different socio-economic backgrounds.
September 16, 2023
School choice: Celebrating, not eliminating, variety
We rarely think about the fact that individuals studying under different education streams may have different perceptions of what being educated means and may have different educational goals and aspirations.
August 31, 2023
Educating education: An academic's two cents on education reform
Today, students are still subjected to, more or less, the same so-called education that we or our seniors experienced.
April 27, 2021
Rethinking education under Covid-19: The LLMSC approach
As I write this, I am overrun with a rush of helplessness. I remember feeling the same way when I was preparing for a keynote presentation on the “Recovery of Covid-19 learning loss” that this writing stems from.
April 20, 2021
Critique, criticism and a new development indicator
I’ve always wanted to be a PhD student. I love reading and writing and a PhD is literally being facilitated—often with a full scholarship—to think, read and write.
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