It’s the first day of a new academic year with no mistakes.

These days there is a lot of discussion about the role of commonly agreed principles and routines in teaching.

We talk about a lot of different strategies on our blog that all have been shown effective for student learning.

As higher education (HE) educators, we recognise the need to understand Gen Z (born between 1996 and 2012), who now form the majority of university students (Weng, 2024).

What if we could help teachers use cognitive science more easily? 

Reading in class should be one of the richest experiences a teacher can offer.

How do we achieve classroom consistency (better teaching) without reducing teachers to compliance? Having faced this challenge myself as a school leader, I recognise that the problem is about perspective. Too often, schools chase consistency when what they really need is...

A badly designed door can make intelligent people look stupid.

In 1970, psychologists and psychiatrists were invited to a lecture on “Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physician Education.”