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AI Policy Featured

When AI policy meets the classroom

Most school AI policies are written for the inspector, not the teacher. Here's the difference — and why it decides whether a trust-wide rollout actually works.

Read the article · May 2026 · 6 min read

EDTECH

Edtech

The classroom is your most expensive user-test

Why product teams that skip real lessons ship features teachers quietly switch off.

May 2026 · 5 min read

MATHS

Maths

Calculators didn't ruin mental maths. We did.

A defence of fluency that isn't just nostalgia for times-tables.

Apr 2026 · 4 min read

SECTOR

Sector

Banning phones is the wrong fight

What the phone panic gets wrong about attention, trust and teenagers.

Apr 2026 · 7 min read

AI POLICY

AI Policy

What a good AI Trust Charter actually says

Five clauses every school charter needs — and three it should quietly drop.

Mar 2026 · 6 min read

EDTECH

Edtech

Stop saying "AI-powered"

Buyers in schools have stopped listening. Here's what to say instead.

Mar 2026 · 3 min read

MATHS

Maths

Schemes of learning aren't curriculum

The difference matters more in the age of generated worksheets.

Feb 2026 · 5 min read