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Conrad Hughes

Conrad Lawrence Marquard Hughes (born 14 January 1974) is a South African-British-Swiss[1] author, lecturer, teacher and international educator. In 2023 he became Director General[2][3] of the International School of Geneva (also known as Ecole Internationale de Genève, or Ecolint) the world's oldest (founded in 1924) and largest international school.[4][5][6]

Biography[edit]

Hughes is the son of South African scholar and author Jean Marquard[7] and British etymologist and university professor Geoffrey Ian Hughes.[8] He attended St David's Marist Inanda[9] and subsequently Waterford Kamhlaba, the United World College of Southern Africa.[10][11] In the course of university studies in France, South Africa and the United Kingdom, he obtained a Masters in Comparative Literature at the University of Montpellier,[12] a PhD in English literature (writing on the treatment of the body in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee)[13] at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Doctorate in Education (EdD) from Durham University.[14][15] He taught in India, France and the Netherlands before joining the International School of Geneva, where he was successively a teacher of English, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Coordinator, Director of Education and Director of the Secondary School and of La Grande Boissière campus (while simultaneously teaching Philosophy), prior to becoming the school's first internally appointed Director General since 1949.[16][17][18][19]

In his capacity as Campus and Secondary School Director of La Grande Boissière, Hughes launched the Universal Learning Programme (ULP).[20] Hughes and the ULP were the subject of a laudatory article in TES (formerly known as Times Educational Supplement).[21] In May 2023 an article devoted to him was published by Geneva's leading daily newspaper, Tribune de Genève,[22] and UN Today interviewed him in January 2024.[23]

Hughes is a member of the advisory board for the University of the People, a senior fellow of UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education and a research assistant at the University of Geneva’s Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education.[24][25]

Publications[edit]

Hughes has published four books on educational matters, including Understanding Prejudice and Education (Routledge, 2016), Educating for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges (Brill, 2018) and Education and Elitism (Routledge, 2021).[26][27] Educating for the Twenty-First Century has been praised by British philosopher A. C. Grayling ("A significant book, which makes it required reading for educators, public policy experts, indeed every thoughtful citizen of our time") and French philosopher and former Minister of Education Luc Ferry ( "An essential book for all those who are interested in the future of their children, in other words, the very future of humanity").[28] Hughes is also the author of numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals.[29]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Conférence des Directeurs | Ecolint". www.ecolint.ch. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  2. ^ "Appointment of the new Director General". Ecolint | International School of Geneva. 2022-12-15. Archived from the original on 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2023-06-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "Écoles privées genevoises – Un nouveau directeur pour l'École internationale". Tribune de Genève (in French). 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  4. ^ Pearce, Richard (2013). International education and schools: moving beyond the first 40 years. London New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4725-1074-7.
  5. ^ https://www.ibo.org/ib-world-archive/september-2013-issue-68/where-are-they-now2/
  6. ^ "Our History". Ecolint | International School of Geneva. 2016-04-09. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  7. ^ "Marquard, Jean - WITS". historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  8. ^ "Geoffrey Hughes (20 April 1939–30 October 2022)". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  9. ^ "St David's Marist Inanda".
  10. ^ "Waterford Kamhlaba United World College Southern Africa - (WKUWCSA)". www.waterford.sz. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  11. ^ "UWC.org".
  12. ^ "Conrad Hughes - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  13. ^ Hughes, Conrad Lawrence Marquard (2008-10-17). "The treatment of the body in the fiction of JM Coetzee". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  15. ^ Hughes, Conrad (2018-07-17), "About the Author", Educating for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges, Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-38103-2, retrieved 2023-06-10
  16. ^ "Conrad Hughes". The Conversation. 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  17. ^ "About". conrad-hughes. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  18. ^ theupdateecolint (2023-03-30). "Interview with Dr Conrad Hughes: our future Director General – His vision for Ecolint". The Update. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  19. ^ "Conrad Hughes - Mbabane, Swaziland". International Baccalaureate®. 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  20. ^ "Universal Learning Programme - What is the ULP ? [EN]". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
  21. ^ McConville, Alistair (29 May 2020). "GCSEs: is a system not dictated by exams possible?". tes magazine.
  22. ^ "Écoles privées genevoises – Un nouveau directeur pour l'École internationale". Tribune de Genève (in French). 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  23. ^ "An international education - UN Today". 2024-01-31. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  24. ^ "Conrad Hughes". University of the People. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  25. ^ "World Education Summit".
  26. ^ "Conrad Hughes - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  27. ^ "Conrad Hughes designs and implements educational systems for the future". SHAPE. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  28. ^ admin (2018-09-13). "Book Launch Invitation:"Education for the Twenty-First Century: Seven Global Challenges". A special edition of the IBE_UNESCO Learning Series, Geneva 16 October 2018, 17:45-19:00". International Bureau of Education. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  29. ^ "Articles". conrad-hughes. Retrieved 2023-06-14.

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