Steven Hunt

AS qualifications – well into the doldrums Thursday night and a message pops up on my WhatsApp: "It’s like they’re trying to harm our numbers," a teacher colleague sends, along with a screen shot of the news that the OCR examinations board has decided, out of the blue, to withdraw AS Latin and Classical Greek. Final exams for these levels will be in June 2027. The withdrawal of key exams is not reserved just for Latin and Classical Greek, as the OCR Subject Update  shows. And

On Monday 16 February, PGCE Classics students from Cambridge, Liverpool Hope and King’s College London gathered at London’s Senate House for a full day dedicated to one of the most pressing questions in education today: how should we use artificial intelligence in the Classics classroom?  As always, the day was expertly hosted by Grainne Cassidy, Education officer at the Classical Association Teaching Board, who has been instrumental in shaping these cross‑institution trainin

Looking for tigers is not something that features in my usual weekly schedule. I don’t pop out for milk, pick up the dry cleaning, and casually scan the horizon for stripey predators. And yet, there we were: on safari near Ranthambore, the very place where Katy Perry and Russell Brand got married (at least that was what I was told – I wasn’t personally invited). Whether that’s a glowing endorsement or a cautionary tale is… open to interpretation. A Hotel Straight Out of a Jun