This whole week I have been seeing students remotely, and my own children have been having remote lessons with tasks set by their teachers. It’s been a difficult experience for both of us, providers and receivers of education alike, but there are those who will...
Jason feels like his life is falling apart. He’s just received back his A Level mock exams and it’s clear that he’s not done well. Certainly not well enough to please his parents who expect him to go to that great university that both mum...
I recently wrote an article for a secondary education magazine entitled “How UCAS killed childhood”. It takes the form of a spoof UCAS (the University admissions organisation) personal statement in which an exasperated teenager lists all the things he should have done in order to...
Where do our emotions come from? Many people think that events cause emotions. If you lose control of your bicycle that will make you scared. If a colleague compliments your clothes that will make you happy. If your boss calls you for an unexpected meeting with...
Teenagers can seem annoyingly lazy: they might be slow to respond when we talk to them, distracted, slow to get up in the morning, slow to lay the table (if they get there at all), slow to sit down to do their homework… It’s easy...