What do we love to do?

Hi all!  I've been quite busy these past days and the quantity of publications in the blog has decreased, but here I am again!

Yesterday the spanish football league finished and therefore, some teams stay one more year in the first division, some go to european competitions next year and of course, some of them go into the abyss of the silver category.

Happiness and pain, two curious feelings both present in players' and coaches' hearts these days.

I can't imagine these football coaches and players spending all their lives working hard, training everyday, studying strategies, watching matches and so on without a complete devotion to the sports' world.

So, why there's some people that work on what they love and so many people working on what they hate. Why these people complain continously because they dislike their jobs? Why they don't choose any other job?

For sure, we all are good in some fields due to our education and experience.
I've just read in  Expansión.com a really interesting article. One of those articles that make us think twice about our role in the game of life. What do we love to do?
Maybe the answer to this question will lead us to establish a new path in our life and try to work in the same field we're good at, and make our passions our way of life.

Spain's Cultural problem

One of the biggest problems of Spanish economy is employees' mediocre mindset.

Against the thought of some experts, the problem isn't just the Crisis, in which I include all the 'small' crisis we have at the same time: real state crisis, the public debt crisis, the financial crisis or the labour market crisis, but people's behaviour under some extreme circumstances.

Since 35 years ago, Spain's been a modern and democratic country, where all the society moved to become equal in rights and duties. But for the past few years, Spain has lost the spirit to improve and learn. From school to the job market, through high school and university, Spanish people join the mass, feeling safe in the knowledge that behaving like the others, you become part of them and noone is better than other. We've been waving the flag of democracy and equity, but forgeting that being equal is not a result, but a starting point to grow and become better and why not, set differences between people.
Now is time to change our minds and support these young people with willingness to improve and learn, instead of laughing at them if they try to speak better english or get better marks in maths. 'Nerds' are not anymore 'Nerds'. They are well educated people with knowledge and capacity to be better day by day. 'Nerds' are the future and present of a society that has been for too much time leaving them out.

Innovative Collaboration Programmes - How to Avoid the Vanishing of Educational Middle Market

I don't know how, but this afternoon, during a talk I had with the Head of International Office at PFH headquarters in Göttingen, Germany, we started to design a new strategy for small and middle size universities to improve the quality and quantity of lecturers and  the International exposition of the centre at a low cost.

According to my last post about the vanishing of educational middle market, we are suffering a process of polarization in educational field and I postulate that a change on the strategic market position (changing to the high-end market or to the low-end market) would be the best solution to avoid this incoming crisis in educational private sector.

These changes in the strategic market position take time and require a special effort for those managers in the University used to the old strategy. This mindset change must be supported not only for the teachers and managers of one university, but for all partner universities.

Without incurring in high costs there is the posibility to develop a collaboration programme between partner universities in order to create or co-create a platform to develop e-teaching.
By the way, this platform could open a new world with countless innovation opportunities for those small and middle size universities in the field of e-learning.

Imagine you're studying in Germany so you have some home-teachers that teach you the mayority of the subjects. Furthermore you can also have access by using the university intranet to see, watch and attend lessons taught by other professors in other universities in other parts of the world.

The actual model with a professor teaching what someone else has discovered and written in a book, is not an efficient model anymore. Why should I (as a student) pay to be in a private university if the text books is the same as in other universities?

Why should I spend my money studying abroad if I can get all this information from the web at home?

Can we all together develop a new tool to make studying easy? Can we offer as a Private University lectures from our partner universities and viceversa?

Yes we can.