Feedback is intended to support growth, yet too often it becomes the final word on someone's performance. What if we designed feedback systems around dignity, agency and possibility rather than simply the communication of judgement?
Artificial intelligence can generate increasingly sophisticated answers, but education is about more than producing correct outputs. How do we harness AI's possibilities without outsourcing the intellectual struggle through which understanding, judgement and independence develop?
A human-centred approach in an unstable world Schools do not exist outside history. They sit inside it. When conflict escalates in Ukraine. When violence intensifies in the Middle East. When diplomatic tensions rise. When military deployments increase. The emotional impact does not stop at borders. It enters boarding houses. It arrives in tutor time. It sits quietly in the back row of assemblies. For some students, the news is not abstract geopolitics. It is family and uncert