by James Pares
Currently working on: guidelight.live
Teaching is project management. Gantt charts, kanban boards, agile sprints, risk registers — the tools that run billion-dollar programmes could transform how teachers plan, deliver, and quality-assure their lessons.
Teachers are told to collaborate. But when different styles, egos, and backgrounds collide, shared planning can become a battleground. Here are practical strategies that actually work.
The IB says be flexible. IGCSE says follow the textbook. The truth is somewhere in the middle — and the stakes change depending on whether you teach primary or secondary.
In the past, the bottleneck of any project was the human "typing speed"—the literal time it took for a developer to architect, write, and debug logic. Today, generative AI has obliterated that ceiling. A single developer can now produce a volume of code that would have previously required an entire pod of junior engineers.
China's Belt and Road Initiative draws comparisons to the British Empire. But are the parallels fair — and what does China's expansion mean for the future of English as a global language?
Cheaper EVs, cheaper goods, green energy cooperation — the benefits of deeper UK-China trade are real. But so are the risks. What's the right balance?
The NHS is beloved but broken. What if we replaced general taxation funding with an employer-paid insurance model that keeps care free at the point of use while introducing competition and quality incentives?