Phone bans and locking systems may reduce visible phone use, but lasting change requires student agency, parental cooperation and a broader conversation about digital attention. Schools everywhere are searching for a solution to the smartphone problem. Yondr pouches, phone lockers, confiscation policies and campus-wide bans all promise something educators desperately need: classrooms in which students…
Richard Earl’s Towards Higher Mathematics: A Companion is the kind of book that fills a gap most students do not even realise exists until they are already struggling. It sits in that important space between school mathematics and the rigour of a university degree, and it does so with real care and intelligence. The book…
For years, LinkedIn rewarded people who could make simple ideas sound complicated. Not necessarily the people with the best ideas.Not necessarily the people with the deepest expertise. Just the people who could package ordinary thoughts in polished corporate English. Some built entire careers around sounding intelligent without actually saying very much. Now AI has arrived…
I have taught Mathematics in India, the UAE, Singapore and Switzerland. Each system taught me something the others could not. Here is what I carried forward from each one.