Author: Nelson Rosario

A group of thirteen-year-olds once watched a video of a young child having an asthma attack in a classroom somewhere in central London. There was no health class for them. Design and Technology was where they were. They made drawings, prototypes, and child-friendly inhaler packs next, which turned out to say something much bigger about how creativity works than anyone had thought at first. Following a year-long study at the University of Cambridge, led by researchers Bill Nicholl and Ian Hosking, some very strong results have been found. In one London school, students followed the normal D&T lessons. The students…

Sometime between the third and fourth time you see a student put on a VR headset for the first time, you know that something has changed. The usual restlessness in the classroom goes away, like moving chairs around, checking phones, and slowly losing focus. The pupil stays still. After that, they try to touch something that isn’t there. No matter how quiet it is, that moment says more about where education is going than any policy paper ever could. Virtual reality has been around in the education world for a long time. Early on, the promise was strong and loud.…

When you look at a student slouched in their chair, you don’t know if they’re bored, tired, or about to die. This is something that teachers always say. That split-second uncertainty used to be a small bother. Today, fentanyl is being passed around high schools in the form of pills that look like candy, vitamins, and pressed tablets. This makes it one of the scariest choices anyone can make on a Tuesday afternoon. English teachers, more than anyone else, live in that moment all the time now. It’s possible that no one planned for this to happen. There was no…

It’s a little unsettling when a number looks like progress but doesn’t feel like it. The 2026 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report starts with a number that should give you confidence: There are now 1.4 billion students in school around the world, which is 30% more than in 2000. This includes both primary and secondary school students. The number of kids in pre-primary school has grown by 45%. It’s amazing that post-secondary has grown by 161%. That looks like a society that cares about its children on paper. But OMEP, which stands for the World Organization for Early Childhood Education,…

The Texas Longhorns are kind of stubborn. Not careless or cocky, just stubbornly and quietly persistent. The 2026 Women’s College World Series bracket was finally closed, and the confetti settled at Oklahoma City’s Devon Park. Texas had done what they did the previous year: won a national title. Right after each other. Just the fifth show in history to do it. But when you look at how they got there, you can’t help but think that this one was messier, harder, and in some ways more impressive than the others. Before Memorial Day, the bracket began to take shape, with…

Something about a certain kind of institution always seems to show up in the strangest places without making a fuss. Bishop Burton College is that kind of place. It is in a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It doesn’t try to make the news. Still, at some point, it turned into a training center for the Olympics, won national praise for its excellent teaching, and built a campus that most agricultural colleges in the country could only dream of. It began in a simple way. Bishop Burton first opened its doors in 1954 as a Farm Institute. The…

Around the middle of April, there’s a certain kind of fear that settles over the University of Warwick. It’s not the revision yet. It’s when the exam schedule shows up in your email that you realize you don’t have much time to breathe. Warwick has kept its hybrid assessment model for the 2025–26 school year. This model includes both in-person and online tests spread out over several time periods during the year. The December block goes from December 15th to December 19th, and the January block goes from January 12th to January 16th. From March 9th to March 20th, there…

In Scotland’s schools and colleges every spring, something small but important takes place. Students start to look at their exam schedules, change their study plans, and quietly figure out which weeks will be the hardest. For most of them, the schedule just shows up. But this year, something changed. Qualifications Scotland chose to make the process public and ask people what they thought before making any decisions. That’s not a little thing. Students, teachers, lecturers, and other educators were asked to look over a draft schedule and raise any concerns during the SQA exam timetable 2027 consultation, which took place…

When April ends, there is a certain kind of quiet that falls over a school hallway. Notes for review stuck to lockers. Someone is pacing near the water fountain and their lips are moving slowly. The teacher stopped in the doorway to look at an A4-sized schedule. Every year, it takes place, and 2027 will be no different. For A level students, the schedule for the next few months is already set. And knowing it well, long before May, can really make a difference in how prepared someone feels going into that exam room. The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ)…

The main quadrangle at the University of Sydney has a quiet authority to it. The long hallways, the sandstone gothic architecture, and the weight of almost 175 years on every surface don’t make it feel like a place that’s trying to prove itself. It seems like a place that has been there before. The University of Sydney was the first university in Australia and all of Oceania. It was founded in 1850, which is something that no other school on the continent can say. That would be enough for most institutions to stand on its own. But the age of…