My seminar was booked for 30 minutes, an hour before the fair closed on day two. My team and I had spent days perfecting the slides. Then I walked in and changed my whole approach. Listen before you answer. The questions I was asked, on […]
The night before my live radio interview in Dubai, I panicked. The slot was 7:30 am, prime time FM. I had prepared the questions, or so I thought. In truth, I had asked AI to help, and when I revisited my answers the day before, […]
I sit across from parents most weeks who tell me some version of the same thing: “My child knows the material. They just can’t get it down on paper.” They’re right. Today’s students know more than any generation before them. AI can summarise a novel […]
We’re heading to Dubai to exhibit at the UAE Education Fair, and if there’s one group of people I most want to connect with while we’re there, it’s university counsellors. Counsellors play a role that I don’t think gets talked about enough. They’re experienced, deeply […]
I’ve never believed in staying in one place simply for the sake of it. I trained as a biochemist because that was what people of my generation and background often did. Later, I moved into chartered accountancy because I wanted to understand how systems actually […]
I’ve coached hundreds of students through the IB. I’ve also sat on the other side of it, as the parent of a daughter who went through it herself, and honestly those are two very different vantage points. The question I keep asking her Now that […]
If you’re choosing IB subjects right now, or staring at a UCAS form trying to pick a degree that will “set you up,” here is something worth sitting with: almost no one who has built something meaningful got there by a straight line. And that’s […]
I’ve been writing plays for a long time. Yet the question I’m always asked, especially by people who know me primarily as an educator, is whether the two worlds connect. Teaching and storytelling. Structure and imagination. A classroom and a stage. For me, the answer […]
The tutoring industry has a Tinder problem. Open any of the major platforms and the experience is almost identical to dating app logic. You scroll through profiles. You filter by price, subject, availability. You look at ratings, which tell you almost nothing, because no one […]