(A few thoughts...)
Curriculum
The Academy teaches all of the usual skills - nobody graduates without basic literacy and arithmetic skills, a grounding in the humanities and sciences, and knowledge of various popular sports and pastimes - but the Academy is also part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which cannot be completed by memorizing facts and writing tests. The core IBD requirements are Theory of Knowledge (how we know what we know), Creativity, Action, Service (awareness of one's self, including how one fits into society), and Extended Essay (a 4000-word essay on an approved subject). Thus, high-school and college-undergraduate students are also taught how to learn, how to fit in, and how to correlate knowledge across specializations. (In GURPS terms, all Academy graduates have the Research skill at IQ or higher, and most have some Social advantages related to society.)
Metahuman students are also taught how to use their abilities - and how (and when) to not use their abilities.
Campuses
There are five Academy campuses around the world. Students are expected to attend at least two of the campuses during their school years, so that they are exposed to ways of thinking other than those in their home countries. (In GURPS terms, this is the Cultural Familiarity advantage; all Academy graduates have at least one CF other than their native one.) None of the campuses are located within the territories of the permanent members of the Security Council.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Classes at the Winnipeg campus are taught in English and French, although Cree and Ukranian classes are offered as electives. The city has a strong artistic and social-justice history, which is reflected in the campus' offerings. Metahuman college students are expected to help allievate damage caused by the annual flooding of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, which makes the Winnipeg campus popular amongst students who take Creativity, Action, Service seriously.
Kyiv, Ukraine: Classes at the Kyiv campus are taught in Ukranian and Russian, with Polish, English, and Yiddish courses offered as electives. The campus draws upon the city's rich historical, cultural, and technological knowledge for its major courses of study. The Kyiv campus is the only one in a federal capital, and thus the only one with ready access to an IST Embassy; students who want to join the IST but who do not have metahuman abilities often complete their Adademy years in Kyiv.
foo: TBD
bar: TBD
baz: TBD
(each campus should be in a different CF)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Curriculum
The Academy teaches all of the usual skills - nobody graduates without basic literacy and arithmetic skills, a grounding in the humanities and sciences, and knowledge of various popular sports and pastimes - but the Academy is also part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which cannot be completed by memorizing facts and writing tests. The core IBD requirements are Theory of Knowledge (how we know what we know), Creativity, Action, Service (awareness of one's self, including how one fits into society), and Extended Essay (a 4000-word essay on an approved subject). Thus, high-school and college-undergraduate students are also taught how to learn, how to fit in, and how to correlate knowledge across specializations. (In GURPS terms, all Academy graduates have the Research skill at IQ or higher, and most have some Social advantages related to society.)
Metahuman students are also taught how to use their abilities - and how (and when) to not use their abilities.
Campuses
There are five Academy campuses around the world. Students are expected to attend at least two of the campuses during their school years, so that they are exposed to ways of thinking other than those in their home countries. (In GURPS terms, this is the Cultural Familiarity advantage; all Academy graduates have at least one CF other than their native one.) None of the campuses are located within the territories of the permanent members of the Security Council.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Classes at the Winnipeg campus are taught in English and French, although Cree and Ukranian classes are offered as electives. The city has a strong artistic and social-justice history, which is reflected in the campus' offerings. Metahuman college students are expected to help allievate damage caused by the annual flooding of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, which makes the Winnipeg campus popular amongst students who take Creativity, Action, Service seriously.
Kyiv, Ukraine: Classes at the Kyiv campus are taught in Ukranian and Russian, with Polish, English, and Yiddish courses offered as electives. The campus draws upon the city's rich historical, cultural, and technological knowledge for its major courses of study. The Kyiv campus is the only one in a federal capital, and thus the only one with ready access to an IST Embassy; students who want to join the IST but who do not have metahuman abilities often complete their Adademy years in Kyiv.
foo: TBD
bar: TBD
baz: TBD
(each campus should be in a different CF)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012