Notes from the founders, mentors and alumni.
Inside the Mind of the Consumer: Psychology at IE University, Spain
Why do people choose what they choose? Our new Spain academy at IE University — across Madrid and Segovia — lets students run real experiments on human behaviour.
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Economics explains the world; business is how you act on it. Our new Milan academy at Bocconi University turns theory into a real venture in a week.
Our new international STEM academy is hosted at the National University of Singapore. Here is why Asia's leading campus is the right place to find out if science and engineering are for you.
Our tutors are practising academics and professionals — not retired consultants reading slides. Here's how we choose them.
Everything a family needs to organise before the programme — including the invitation letter for a UK visa.
Super-curricular depth, a real project and a credible story — what admissions tutors are actually looking for.
A short framework for families weighing up which programme fits a teenager who is interested in everything.
A subject-by-subject look at the artefact each student takes home — and why it matters more than a certificate.
The questions every parent should ask before sending a teenager abroad — and exactly how we answer them.
The WEF's Future of Jobs research keeps pointing to the same skills. They are exactly the ones a hands-on summer academy builds.
Independence, judgement, friendship across cultures — the quiet curriculum of living away from home for the first time.
Teenagers don't remember what they were told. They remember what they built. Here's why every A World Academy week ends with something made.
Three universities, four museums, and a city that has taught the world for eight hundred years.
A short, honest guide for parents weighing up summer programmes. Read this before you compare brochures.
When information is everywhere, what teenagers need most is judgement — and that is only built in the room with people who already have it.