With exam season just around the corner, hundreds of thousands of students in schools, colleges and universities are making their final preparations as they aim for a successful outcome and possibly the very top grades.

But, as we know, for many children, young people and adults, rather than experiencing success in the coming weeks and months, they will instead find themselves encountering failure.

This failure can easily lead to a loss of motivation, lower expectations, lower self-esteem or even giving up altogether.

So, instead of helping learners of different ages to study better or revise better, perhaps we should spend more time helping them to fail better?

That’s the thinking behind a new book called ‘Fail Better’, which was released in March. It explores a whole range of concepts, ideas and strategies that try to turn something as seemingly negative as failure into something more positive. 

So, what exactly do we mean by failure? Why are some students better able to cope with failure than others? And, most importantly, what advice and guidance could be given to students as well as their teachers and parents to help them grapple with failure as it arises?

I’m delighted to be joined by Mark Roberts, the author of Fail Better and also the Director of Research and an English Teacher at Carrickfergus Grammar School.

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