Guidance for my younger self
Because my family immigrated when I was young, I have felt I missed important mentoring that would have helped me in my academic life. My...
Education and power
Education is about power When I was a child, I remember ‘playing teacher’, replicating what I saw my teachers do, and to me, at that...
Politics, Fear and Education
I recently watched the Amazon ‘Shiny Happy People’ docuseries. The series covers a lot of ground on religion which I will not engage with...
The need to re-think exams
(Alternative paths of education - part 1) We need to rethink why we assess education. Why do we take exams. Quite often, as we are in the...
Dealing with set backs in education - learning from sports!
One of my kids got a slight injury in their sport. The response of the coach was clear: don't stress, take some time off, come back...
Leadership
We have been designing a couple of new courses on leadership. We started with a couple of questions: * What is leadership? * Do we need...