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Generation Z, I believe, is the most combative, aggressive, impatient, of all generations, their inflexibility and ability to escalate even the most simple debates, the hallmark of their time. I want...

Recent changes in the employment and workplace structures across several of the Sultanate of Oman’s leading private sector employers, have almost certainly ushered in a wholesale revision of...

Flying... it should be fun, shouldn’t it? But I must say, security considerations apart, it’s often an exercise in frustration. Although considering I travel frequently to faraway New Zealand, I...

So, here we are again, and this New Year, I’m going to focus on some of the ‘good stuff,’ instead of my traditional ‘ragging,’ because we need so much more of that. I think we are still in...

Birkat Al Mouz, Nizwa, Muscat, As Sifah, Jebel Akdhar, Wadi Mayh, Sur, Ras Al Hadd, Ras Al Jinz, Al Asala... Lena and I are rediscovering Oman, and loving it!As the world ‘gets smaller,’ thanks to...

Is the sentiment of ‘peace and goodwill to all,’ an appropriate sentiment just now? Given the time of the year we hear it more often, but really... nothing seems to change does it? Is it really a...

We sleep for between a quarter and a third of our lives, that being somewhere between the equivalent of six and nine thousand days, or put another way, fifteen to twenty five years of our lives....

We sleep for between a quarter and a third of our lives, that being somewhere between the equivalent of six and nine thousand days, or put another way, fifteen to twenty five years of our lives....

I’m often asked, from my educational perspective, whether the poetry and literature taught in schools and higher education has any genuine relevance to the lives of the students. In other words,...

You just couldn’t make it up, could you? The so-called shenanigans by the so-called super-powers at the moment are so hard to believe, you would think they are the plotlines of a damp squib...

One of my work colleagues, who has just got herself her first ever puppy dog, said to me last week, “It’s weird. I never ever thought of myself as a ‘dog person,’ but now I can’t imagine...

We so often hear about saving the South American rainforests, and the Amazon, don’t we? Yet, how much do we know or understand about why, and what it offers the world?The realities of tropical...

“Tolerance,” said that most articulate of American statesmen, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, “implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs, but rather condemns the oppression, or persecution,...

There’s nothing quite as much fun as a bit of comedy is there? You don’t need to wash it, dry it, or keep it clean. You don’t have to cook for it, feed it, or worry about whether it’s a...

It’s an incredibly difficult time for so many folk at the moment with societies seeking to manage the still emerging effects of the global pandemic, the recently emerging global energy price shock,...

I have often felt that, having reached an age of some maturity, one of my life passions is to be able to pass on my professional and life skills to the younger generation. It would be such a waste, if...

Whether from college or university, we can rarely be certain that graduates will enter the workforce and workplace fully prepared. They will be enthusiastic, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of...

I reflect often upon how the Sultanate of Oman has been, for so long now, not only a beautiful jewel in the Arabian Gulf, but a warm, hospitable, oasis of tranquillity within a wider region so often...

How can we help our learners learn more, and be better? Maybe one of the problems with global education is that we don’t ask the learners. We keep going to the so-called experts, the educators,...

Aren’t innovation and invention marvellous words? The implication is not just of something new or better, but something to change the world... like electric cars are becoming, almost life-changing....