This one’s less for you and more for someone you know. If you’ve a son, daughter, grandchild, niece, nephew or family friend finishing school this summer, you’ll know it’s an exciting time – a real new chapter – but a daunting one too, with so many decisions about what comes next. GCSE results land in [Read more…]
Every month we usually pull a business or self-help book apart and fish out the useful bits. This time we’re trying something different. We’ve gathered five of the best TED talks on a subject close to our alumni community’s heart: learning – how we actually do it, why it sometimes stalls, and how to get [Read more…]
January gets all the attention. New year, fresh start, a flurry of resolutions – most of which have quietly evaporated by February. So here’s a gentle suggestion: the middle of the year is actually the better moment for a check-in. The pressure’s off, nobody’s watching, and – crucially – you now have six months of [Read more…]
STAYING CONNECTED WHEN HALF THE OFFICE IS ON HOLIDAY Summer does something strange to working life. Inboxes go quiet. Decisions get parked until “after the holidays”. Half the people you’d normally chase are out of office, and there’s a collective easing-off that can feel like the whole world has gone to the seaside. It’s [Read more…]
STAYING SHARP ABOUT WHAT’S REAL ONLINE Last month we looked at AI tools getting things wrong when you use them – the confident, plausible-sounding answers that turn out to be invented. This month, the flip side: the AI-generated content coming at you. The fake photographs that look completely real. The quotes attributed to people [Read more…]