Yesterday morning I attended an assembly at our secondary campus commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war. Students from the French, British and German Sections read testimonials written by WWI soldiers, young men who were the same age in 1914-1918 as the our students are now.. This ceremony has a Read more about Remembrance day[…]

Next week, I will have the pleasure of being a keynote speaker at National Taipei Normal University as part of a conference on Artificial and Human Intelligence. As I am preparing my speech, I would like to share some of my opinions on the subject with you. Firstly, we must separate the two aspects of Read more about AI and human values[…]

Yesterday, I had lunch with two French Section Management Council presidents – the current one, Mr Vereecke, and also Ms Tracey, who was president in 2003 when TES as we know it was merely a pipedream struggling to become a reality. Ms Tracey’s visit, along with one from Ms Moretto from the AEFE, who was Read more about Perspective[…]

Yesterday afternoon, the student members of the TES tri-Section eco-committee and the heads of the French, German and British primary schools signed the TES Eco-School Action Plan 2018-2019. It consists of five concrete and measurable objectives that will be the starting point for a number of projects involving almost all of our students this school Read more about Ecoschool: action plan[…]

The first part of the year is already drawing to a close. It has gone by so quickly, and I have so many things that I want to talk to you about that I have the impression I’ll never have the time to get everything done. So this week would seem to be the ideal Read more about On stress at school[…]

The French Section is proud to be opening a Cinema and Audiovisual studies option for our secondary students. Our aim is not to watch big-budget Hollywood productions together – kids can access that kind of cinema easily enough by themselves. What we are proposing, through the study of lesser-known though not exactly obscure films, is Read more about Moviedoers[…]

Taiwan has announced plans to make English its official second language and to thereby become a bilingual country. Although it is not yet clear how exactly such an ambitious project will be carried out – there are a number of hurdles to overcome first – the aim is nonetheless clear: to create an environment where Read more about Taiwanglish?[…]

Bis repetita placent. That which pleases is twice repeated. It is the case with Latin, which we are pleased to reintroduce as an option in middle school after a year long hiatus. Historically speaking, Latin has occupied an important position in the French education system. Just like maths, it was long considered a highly selective Read more about Latin is back[…]

The streets of Taipei were animated last weekend, as households all over the city welcomed their deceased relatives back for Ghost Month. I hope all of our Taiwanese community enjoy the festivities that the month will bring. The food and joss money offerings to the visiting ghosts of relatives are a sign of the respectfulness Read more about Learning spaces[…]

My colleague Mr Rey gives me a bit of a hard time for rarely mentioning mathematics in my Friday letters. I have a confession to make: as a student, I was a disciple of Flaubert’s in his belief that maths harden the heart. However, it is Mr Rey who is right: we need to talk Read more about Maths in France[…]