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.
As AI tools allow individual developers to generate unprecedented amounts of code, the real challenge is shifting from production to coordination. Is asynchronous, multi-timezone development with rigorous changelogs the only way to keep up?
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?
Capitalism thrives when individuals consume more. But does it achieve this by weakening the social bonds that would otherwise make us content with less?
Immigration enriches societies. But too much, too fast, from too many directions can fracture the cultural fabric that holds communities together. Here's the case for managed, strategic immigration.
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?