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Fashion Education Beyond the Classroom The best way to foster creativity is to take learning outside the classroom and into the real world. JF3 Fashion Village 2026, Raffles Jakarta, brought this philosophy to life with an inspiring student fashion exhibition, an interactive Tote Bag Decoration Workshop, and meaningful engagement with aspiring designers, families, and fashion enthusiasts. JF3 Fashion Village at Summarecon Mall Kelapa Gading is a curated platform to celebrate

The world is more connected than ever. Businesses span continents, creative industries collaborate globally, and professionals are increasingly working with colleagues, clients, and communities from various cultural backgrounds. As a result, higher education is no longer just about obtaining academic credentials; it is also about preparing students to thrive in an increasingly globalized world. Studying in an international education network provides students with global oppor

Higher education is becoming more international. As businesses, creative industries, and professional organizations cross national borders, universities are putting more emphasis on preparing students to succeed in a globalized society. Aside from earning an academic degree, students are increasingly seeking educational experiences that expose them to different cultures, international perspectives, and diverse learning environments. One of the most significant developments su

The purpose of higher education has changed dramatically over the last few decades. While academic knowledge remains at the heart of university education, employers are increasingly expecting graduates to have practical skills, professional confidence, and the ability to adapt quickly to changing workplace environments. As industries embrace new technologies, global collaboration, and interdisciplinary approaches, educational institutions must prepare students for careers tha

This network provides opportunities for students who want an education that goes beyond the walls of a single campus, with lasting benefits that continue long after graduation and provide ongoing support. Higher education today transcends the physical boundaries of a single campus. Employers are increasingly looking for graduates who can combine technical expertise with cultural awareness, adaptability, and the ability to collaborate in international settings. This trend has

Indonesia now runs on screens. At the start of 2025 the country had 212 million internet users, a penetration rate of 74.6 percent, and 143 million social media identities across a population of about 285 million (DataReportal, 2025). Someone designs every one of those screens, whether a banking app, a shopping platform, a streaming service, or a government portal. That someone is increasingly a digital media designer, and demand for the role in Indonesia is now at an all-tim

Obtain statistics. The obtained statistics: The government strategy has reinforced this trajectory, making it even more important. Global tourism has clearly emerged from the recovery stage into a new phase of growth. According to UN Tourism (2026), in 2025, about 1.52 billion international tourists traveled the world, a jump of about 60 million compared to the previous year and a new record for the post-pandemic era. Of those arrivals, 331 million were in Asia and the Pacifi

The most instructive business story in the world right now is taking place in Indonesia. In less than three years, TikTok Shop has gone from a banned experiment to roughly a third of the country’s tracked platform commerce market. It has overcome a government ban and a groundbreaking merger and reinvented its entire business model along the way (Magpie IQ, 2026). This transformation has changed how a nation buys from consumers. For anyone considering a business education, it’

Now every industry lives on a screen. And every screen is created by someone. The apps that manage money, the platforms that stream entertainment, and the interfaces through which billions work, learn, shop, and connect are the product of a profession that was virtually unknown a generation ago: digital media design. That profession hits an inflection point in 2026. Artificial intelligence (AI) can create images, video, layouts, and code in seconds, and it hasn’t made designe

Interior design is one of the professions with a loud mandate for 2026. The American Society of Interior Designers’ annual Trends Outlook began with a sentence that felt unusually charged, describing a year of tension and possibility, creativity and constraint, and a desperate need for grounding in a world that doesn’t feel neutral at all (American Society of Interior Designers, 2026). Underneath the rhetoric is a practical message: clients no longer pay for decoration. They

Overall, the two-year option is a third cheaper than the one-year option, but both options qualify the same. Most people who begin to consider a master’s degree do so with the wrong number. They look at the tuition, compare it with their savings and decide if the number feels affordable. That’s a natural place to start, and it’s analytically backwards because for almost every working professional, tuition is not the largest cost of graduate school; time is. The economics of e

There is a moment most people who have sat in a budget meeting without a finance background will recognize. Someone puts a number on the screen, there's a debate about whether it's the right number and the meeting moves on based on a conversation that half the room didn't totally follow. No one admits to feeling this way. The proposal is accepted or rejected, and the manager who couldn’t follow the argument walks away having learned nothing except that he lost. The usual expl

After you get promoted, there is a particular silence. The announcement is made, the congratulations are received and then the new manager sits down at the same desk with a new title and realizes that no one has told them what the job is. They know more or less what their forerunner did. They sort of know what their manager’s after. What they don’t know, what almost nobody tells them, is that the work they were promoted for is different from the work they are now being paid t

Fashion is one of the few industries that compress culture, commerce, craft, and technology into one discipline. The global clothing and textile system employs hundreds of millions of people, shapes national identities, and is now at the center of two of the defining debates of our time; what is the environmental cost of consumption and the disruption of creative work by artificial intelligence? The tenth annual State of Fashion report from The Business of Fashion and McKinse

Graduates of a serious postgraduate program often say that what surprised them was not a module. It was the people with whom this phenomenon is associated. This phenomenon is such a ubiquitous finding in alumni testimony that it has become a cliché, and clichés tend to be dismissed rather than examined. The assertion is a mistake here, because that claim turns out to be supported by a substantial body of research in sociology, economics, and organizational behavior, and under

For much of the twentieth century, design and business occupied different institutional worlds. Designers are trained in art academies to develop form, craft, and visual sensibility; managers are trained in business schools to optimize capital, operations, and markets. The two professions only met at the commission and often misunderstood one another when they did. Now that division has fallen apart. Global consultancies acquire design studios, technology companies place desi

The global tourism and hospitality industry is now experiencing a structural change that few would have predicted a decade ago. International tourism has not simply recovered from the disruptions of the early 2020s; it has been reconstituted around new logics of the consumer, new distribution channels, and new expectations of the professionals who operate within it. The UN World Tourism Organization has routinely recorded the sector’s return to and growth beyond pre-pandemic

Few concepts have made their way from academic psychology into the lexicon of the boardroom as quickly as psychological safety. The term was coined in its modern sense by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson, who defines it as “a shared belief held by members of a team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks” (e.g., asking a question, admitting a mistake, or challenging a decision) (Edmondson, 1999). A landmark study of 180 teams by Google, called Project Aristotle, found some

Walmart started selling a handbag for around seventy-eight dollars late in 2024. It had the trapezoidal silhouette, the flap, the strap arrangement, and the general bearing of a Hermès Birkin, a bag whose entry price runs to five figures and whose waiting list has passed into folklore. The internet immediately dubbed it the Wirkin. It was sold out. Journalists asked Hermès executives about it in interviews, and they didn’t like the question. The curious thing about the Wirkin

In a narrow sense, he designed the interfaces he collected very well. You have almost certainly caught one. Perhaps it was the subscription that took four minutes to start and twenty minutes to cancel, routing you through a maze of confirmation screens, each one asking whether you were quite sure and offering a discount you had not requested. Perhaps it was the checkout page where a travel insurance add-on had quietly selected itself on your behalf. Perhaps it was the countdo