Category: Teaching Learning
Educating for humans in the lead
I cut my academic teeth working in initial teacher education. I spent a lot of that time on a teeny-tiny […]
February 23, 2026
Learning community means even more in the age of AI
The other day an FT article caught my eye about the “Gen Z trend” of something called “admin nights” – […]
February 23, 2026
Safeguarding the art of lecturing in an AI age
Students are using AI as a personal tutor, but AI is using materials prepared by academics in order to do […]
February 23, 2026
What needs to change to make evidence-based teaching the norm?
UK higher education increasingly demands evidence‑based, inclusive, competence‑focused teaching, while refusing to fund the research needed to make that possible. […]
February 18, 2026
Now the struggle is no longer real, are students becoming stupid?
I used to take copious notes. In meetings, encounters, on Zoom calls, even when travelling – including, in a former […]
February 9, 2026
What grade inflation panics miss about the real value of higher education
Cloaks swish. Cameras flash. It’s graduation day, the culmination of years of effort. It celebrates learning journeys whose outcomes have […]
January 26, 2026
Regulation builds walls between different levels of education, but universities can build bridges
Education in England remains segmented by regulation. Schools operate within Ofsted’s education inspection framework and the statutory regimes of the […]
January 23, 2026
AI is challenging us to relocate our sense of educational purpose in the outward-future rather than the inward-past
As the debates and discussions around use of AI continue to develop, I reflect that, perhaps too often, the questions […]
January 17, 2026
We want to make that heart beat more strongly
When people look at the apparently frenetic itineraries for our SUs study tours, we’re often met with confusion about why […]
January 12, 2026