I spent today wandering the EDUtech Asia at Marina Bay Sands. Almost every stand had the same promise: AI that marks, reminds, tracks and personalises. And almost every one added the same reassurance: “We keep the human element.” I came away thinking about what that […]

Grades matter. They are the building blocks, the foundation you need before moving ahead. But they cannot be your whole plan. You might get into LSE or do an MBA at Duke. But does that give you the right to live there? Will it lead […]

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, […]

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 […]