Monday, 27 July 2026 — Balancing tech tools and real teaching challenges
With 2.8 million UK workers inactive due to long-term health issues, this early intervention tool aims to catch problems before they escalate. For schools and colleges, it’s a reminder that wellbeing support is crucial for future workforce readiness.
Organisations often get stuck thinking resilience is about tech or frameworks. In reality, it's about humans making decisions under pressure. This matters for schools juggling crises and daily challenges – tech can help but won’t fix human overload alone.
Discussions on generative AI have often focused on risks. But this piece pushes universities to ask what they are really for and how AI can be part of their evolution. Worth a look if you’re thinking about higher ed strategy and AI’s role.
A New York state school plans to use a humanoid AI teacher this autumn. It’ll look like a young woman, have a sunny personality, and won’t demand union rights. It’s an intriguing experiment about AI’s role in classrooms and what it means for real teachers.
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I wrote this one to cut through the hype around AI. It lays out how AI can genuinely help education reform if we focus on supporting teachers, not replacing them. Always worth a read if you’re trying to get your head around AI in schools.
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