You cannot avoid risk, so you have to manage it. Whether you’re considering installing a new computer system, or trying out a new teaching approach, how can you manage the risk sensibly and effectively?

It’s an unfortunate fact that the issues I raised in my book ‘Go on, bore ‘em: how to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull’ are still relevant today.

This has been clearly demonstrated in  our interview with Edith, a 14 year-old, recently, and it’s also apparent from emails and other messages I receive. So what can be done about it?

There are several compelling reasons for starting such an enterprise.

One of the big absences at most educational conferences, as far as I'm concerned, is children and young people. Let's be honest: you would have no idea, walking into most conferences, whether you were attending an event about education or one about how to improve the market share of widgets.

If you lead a team, the good news is that you don't have to do it all yourself!

Here are 10 ideas which I have found to be very helpful in creating a collaborative and co-operative team ethos.

Crisis? What crisis?

Everything is going wrong, and everyone wants their problem fixed right now. How can you cope? Here are 5 proven techniques for handling a situation in which several crises seem to be happening at once.

If you manage a large team, how do you ensure that your decisions are good ones?