Research Bhutan incorporates GNH into every aspect of its economic development, policy landscape, and social construct. Therefore, the BIEBS will conduct research into the following areas, which broadly represent the four pillars of GNH: Environment Governance Culture Economic Development Research themes that we hope to pursue Environmental Research  includes studying climate change, renewable energy, Himalayan […]

Education began in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre-literate societies this was achieved orally and through imitation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to the next. As cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond skills that could be readily learned […]

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Early Modern universities initially continued the curriculum and research of the Middle Ages: natural philosophy, logic, medicine, theology, mathematics, astronomy (and astrology), law, grammar and rhetoric. Aristotle was prevalent throughout the curriculum, while medicine also depended on Galen and Arabic scholarship. The importance of humanism for changing this state-of-affairs cannot be underestimated. Once humanist professors […]