With summer days almost over, yet again we are welcoming another kick-off of a new academic year for schools across Romania. After previous exploratory online and hybrid scenarios, until further notice and with a general feeling of excitement, kids and teachers alike are back to the classrooms. Nevertheless, we keep hearing sayings as “the new normal” or “back to...Read More

Many studies prove there is a strong correlation between student engagement, attention span and interior design settings. According to Kaplan, “Children are more likely to pay attention and are more open to learning if they are comfortable during class”. The guidelines below can therefore be useful and easily adapted to a wide range of spaces,...Read More

As schools around the world start re-opening after the lockdown and after a different flavored summer break, great attention is falling on the educational environments and their suitability for the students’ current needs. However, operational scenarios are still wobbly across the country and beyond borders. Some schools are better prepared than others, yet without a...Read More

Many speculations have been going around, to such an extent that it all came to look like a Dickensian allegory – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Every moment of change, however, has to be seen as a great opportunity to learn, and in order to achieve good results,...Read More

This week, UK higher education providers have been advised by the government not to promise students an on-campus experience for the following academic year, but instead just outline generally “how things might unfold”. As a consequence, University of Cambridge (UK) has been the first major education institution to announce that all its lectures will be...Read More

This week could have been the first week students got back to school after their Easter break, traffic could have been over saturated and the usual routine could have slowly led us again towards the summer season. Instead, even though Europe has slowly started to turn on its economic engines, we are still immersed into...Read More

More often than not, it happens that many of us learn how to swim only when water rises to our shoulders. This is what is happening at a global scale right now with the COVID-19, when schools have been among the first institutions forced to shut their doors and find alternative ways of teaching and...Read More