I’ve coached hundreds of students through the IB. I’ve also sat on the other side of it, as the parent of a daughter who went through it herself, and honestly those are two very different vantage points. The question I keep asking her Now that […]
If you’re choosing IB subjects right now, or staring at a UCAS form trying to pick a degree that will “set you up,” here is something worth sitting with: almost no one who has built something meaningful got there by following a straight line. And […]
I’ve been writing plays for a long time. Yet the question I’m always asked, especially by people who know me primarily as an educator, is whether the two worlds connect. Teaching and storytelling. Structure and imagination. A classroom and a stage. For me, the answer […]
The tutoring industry has a Tinder problem. Open any of the major platforms and the experience is almost identical to dating app logic. You scroll through profiles. You filter by price, subject, availability. You look at ratings, which tell you almost nothing, because no one […]
The Frustration I See Every Week There is a particular kind of frustration that comes not from failing to understand something, but from realising that nobody has ever actually tried to explain it to you. Not really. Not in a way that was meant for […]
There is a question I hear regularly, always with a slightly apologetic tone, as though the person asking already knows the answer might not be what they want to hear. “Are your fees negotiable?” I understand why people ask. The tutoring market has trained families […]
I sat across from a parent yesterday who had done everything right. Her son had attended one of Singapore’s top international schools, worked hard, and performed well. He speaks two languages, plays competitive sports, and is, by every traditional measure, a capable and driven young […]
The Quiet Weeks Before IB Results Results day is coming. You know it. They know it. Nobody’s really saying it out loud, but it’s there, sitting in the house with everyone. I’ve been doing this for nearly twenty years. I’ve sat with students through the […]