Mark McCourt

ALT Blog banner featuring the title “Learning Has No Key Stages” against a blue and golden sunrise, with a young person standing on a rocky summit looking towards the horizon, symbolising limitless potential, intellectual progress and the removal of artificial ceilings on achievement.

ALT Minimalist blog banner for What Remains When the Lesson Ends, featuring a stack of blue books alongside the title and subtitle about memory, mastery, transfer and effective teaching.

ALT Illustrated blog banner for an education article titled Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity. A teacher leads a discussion with pupils while a mathematical problem involving trigonometry is displayed on a whiteboard. The scene emphasises the use of prior knowledge to solve new problems, with visual references to retrieval, method selection, connection-making and application. The design conveys the idea that retrieval is most powerful when embedded naturally within the story of learning rather than used as a disconnected classroom routine.

ALT Minimalist cream banner with the title “On Suicide” in dark serif text beside a delicate, muted botanical stem.

ALT A pupil stands at a crossroads between pathways labelled "Education" and "Training", symbolising the debate over whether schools exist primarily to cultivate broad human knowledge or prepare young people for employment.

ALT A lone traveller stands on a rocky summit overlooking an expansive landscape at sunrise, symbolising freedom, conviction and the adventure of an uncertain future.