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This holiday: Working on Not Working

In the weeks leading up to the December vacations we’re probably all looking forward to a break from work. The feeling always makes me reflect [...]

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Wellness: From Balance to Boundaries

We are often holding fascinating discussions about our assumptions around wellness, which is a critical concern right across the working world, but especially, of course, whenever children [...]

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Jobs, Careers and Callings

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud For most adults, work constitutes more than one-third of waking life, and the psychological [...]

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Technology may mean we live in a special age. But not entirely.

Should you care what I am wearing as I write this? Read on, gentle reader… Making sure that the education we offer is meeting student [...]

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Kids: All Joy and No Fun

The title of this book is too good not to borrow for this post. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting, by [...]

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In an age of populism,
what do we owe each other?

The purpose of education has always been to prepare students for the life ahead of them. How best to do that remains contested (we can, for [...]

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Forget AI or Google; sometimes you’ve just got to know a lot of stuff.

Students often ask why do we need to know this when we can just google it / use AI? It’s a great question, and it [...]

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What Innovation can look like.

Historian Benot Godin recounts the tale that in 1636, Henry Burton, a Church of England minister and Puritan was found guilty of innovating, against King [...]

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Autonomous Cars and Autonomous Students: Not the same autonomy at all.

We tend to take a very dim view of extremely controlling people and extremely controlled societies; because we instinctively know that being highly controlled tends [...]

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I have no time to spare. What a relief.

I’ve been watching my middle daughter in the months between graduating university and finding the next thing – work, internship or a masters. It’s quite [...]

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The AI Apocalypse: Soft Skills and Hard Thinking

When I was learning to teach Maths, back in the Cretaceous period, one major debate revolved around the use of the then-new technology of hand-held [...]

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Transferrable skills are the Holy Grail of progressive education. But what might this mean?

I often wonder what education can and cannot learn from other sectors. I was, therefore fascinated to come across this recent HBR article which points [...]

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