Steven Hunt

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

On the evening of 3 rd February 2026 I had the honour of speaking at this event. I explained the hard work done by teachers and students in the UK in making Ancient Greek and Ancient Greece accessible, teachable and in the end assessable within the school environment. I make some suggestions for greater involvement of our political partners and drew attention to future plans. International Day of the Greek Language - European Parliament session International Day of the Greek

On our final day in New Delhi, we decided it was time. India Gate had been hovering on our mental to‑do list all week, and now, armed with Google Maps, stubbornness and a questionable sense of direction, we set off to see it up close. India Gate, if you haven’t met it, is an enormous sandstone arch designed by Edwin Lutyens., the British architect who was commissioned to design a new city – New Delhi – as the High Command of the British Empire in India in the early twentieth

Review — English Translation Steven Hunt & John Bulwer (eds.), Teaching Classics Worldwide. Successes, Challenges and Developments , London / New York / Oxford / Delhi / Sydney, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, XII+468 pp. We are presented with a book whose title promises to give readers information about the current state of Classics teaching not only in the territories where its history developed historically and geographically—that is, parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa—but acros

Here’s the third in a series of brief round-ups for the end of 2025 for Classics Education in the UK #3: Jobs for Classics teachers in the UK in 2024-5 I collated the information for these statistics from the publicly available advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement and the Classics Library. Please cite me if you use any of the information in this blog. Any errors are my own. How many jobs? Fig. 1. Classics Education jobs advertised from 2018-9 to 2024-5 (c) Steve

Here’s the second in a series of brief round-ups for the end of 2025 for Classics Education in the UK #2: State-maintained school entries for GCSE examination in England in 2025 First, some headline numbers. I compiled these statistics from those publicly available from the Department for Education. Any errors are my own. If you use any of the information in this blog, please credit me. The total number of entries for each subject is given in Figure 1 below. Fig. 1. Total num

Here’s the first in a series of brief round-ups for the end of 2025 for Classics Education in the UK #1: Examination entries in England and Scotland 2025 Examination entries in 2025: England England has a number of different examination boards which offer examinations in Classics Education. For Latin, both WJEC / Eduqas and Cambridge OCR offer examinations up to GCSE. Cambridge OCR offers examinations for Classical Greek, Classical Civilisation and Ancient History at GCSE, AS

I’m always up for a bit of technology and Classics. In this case, a friend pointed out this immersive exhibition at London’s Excel exhibition hall in Docklands. There was a YouTube video as well. It looked – kind of okay. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. We went along. It was Sunday, about 1pm. It took some time to find the place as it was located in an exhibition space under the main Excel centre rather than in it: access was literally on the dockside. Inside, it lo