EDUCATION

Many older children find themselves in a difficult position when they reach secondary school. They are expected to write long essays and read complex books, but they never quite mastered the basic building blocks of the English language. This is often called the literacy gap. It happens when a child …

Many people find it very hard to write well in English. You might have a great idea in your head, but when you try to put it on paper, the words look wrong. Perhaps you struggle to choose between words like “there” and “their” because they sound the same. You …

The world is currently facing a silent crisis in literacy. Despite advanced technology and modern classrooms, reading rates are falling. A major reason for this is a trending problem in education: teaching vowel patterns like “ea”, “ai”, and “oa” as isolated rules rather than through real stories. When children spend …

Do you ever feel a heavy sense of dread when someone asks you to read out loud? Perhaps you are a grown adult who feels like you are stuck with the skills of a young child. You might find yourself making excuses to avoid reading a menu at a restaurant …

Does your head hurt when you try to remember if it is there or their? You are not alone. Many children, teens, and even adults feel like they are failing at English. They look at posters on the wall or flip through flashcards, but the words just will not stick. …

Imagine you are sitting in a fancy chair on a stage. There are hundreds of fans waiting to hear you talk. They have bought your book and they love the story. One fan stands up and asks a very deep question. They want to know why the main character felt …

Imagine you have a big school project or a work report due tomorrow. You feel a bit lazy or scared because you do not know where to start. You open a computer and ask an Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write it for you. In seconds, the screen fills with words. …

When winter’s fiercest storms howl against the windows and forecasts warn of hypothermia and frostbite, the classic “snow day” suddenly feels less like a bonus and more like a challenge. For parents, snow days represent both a responsibility and an opportunity. On one level, they require careful planning to keep …

Cognitive development sits at the core of how children learn, reason, remember, focus and make sense of the world. It shapes literacy, numeracy, emotional regulation and long-term academic success. For more than a century, each generation of children outperformed the one before it on almost every measured cognitive benchmark. This …

Denmark’s digital turning point For more than a decade, Denmark was held up as the global model for digital learning. Tablets replaced textbooks, classrooms went paperless, and children were immersed in screens from their earliest school years. By 2011, Danish schools were among the most digitised in the world, supported …