Slowest check in in the universe

All this talk about youth unemployment…it’s almost as if doing well at school and in GCSEs isn’t the most significant thing

No being the hardest word of all (bizarrely, for teachers)

"A school is a community where many, often competing, needs must be balanced as equitably as possible - all while keeping within what is financially viable. And nobody likes being told 'no'. So how do we say it and retain respectful relationships?" @nancygedge.bsky.social shares her advice.

Quite significant amounts of people-ing today, I must say.

Despite teaching to them for many years, it's only now, as a parent, that I've come to understand how completely and utterly I Ioathe and despise exams and the system built around them.

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

#RaceAcrossTheWorld is the most gorgeous show, with flawless casting — every series they choose ordinary people whose warmth, resilience, curiosity and humour make them such loveable guides to the beauty of the world. And for those fearful of the manosphere, Kush & Joe are wonderful young men

An interesting point of view in encouraging the teacher assistants in your school.

With school support staff leaving the profession in droves, @nancygedge.bsky.social looks at how leaders can encourage their TAs to stay…

Worked with brilliant people on this: a snapshot based on my upcoming book on racism and ableism, Double Discrimination geni.us/Double_Discr... TY Paul Christian, making Black history easy reads with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social, Bollywood dancer Harry @mumof3amigos.bsky.social & pianist Chapman

So happy to be writing for @tesmagazine.bsky.social again - thank you for having me

Great thread here on TAs

The @tesmagazine.bsky.social this morning is a great illustration of how disjointed the education sector has become. First a lovely piece by @nancygedge.bsky.social about supporting TAs, as they are leaving schools in droves. Next a piece about how 2 out of 5 HTs are cutting SEND provision. 🫣

What a joy to have @nancygedge.bsky.social back writing for Tes

Child trust funds: a windfall at 18 – but what should you do next?

Over the last decade, Canterbury Christ Church University has almost tripled in size while Arden University has grown by over 3,000%. My new @hepi-news.bsky.social report on how to curb excessive risk-taking in the HE sector is out now: www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-de...

@hechtvogel.bsky.social It's from www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

‘Trump’s ceasefire statement says Iran has agreed to a “complete, immediate and safe opening” of the Strait. Two completely different things. Until vessels resume crossing the Strait without paying a fee to Tehran, it’s a strategic victory for the Islamic Republic.’

Pensions are affordable. Benefits are affordable. Paying decent wages is affordable. Universal Healthcare is affordable. Billionaires aren't affordable.

Translation: “I don’t want to help the UK by paying tax”. I am really growing very tired of hearing advice from super-wealthy people who so obviously put themselves first but pretend otherwise.

So I turned down the brightness on the disk of the Earth a bit, but left the sunlit sliver and surrounding stars bright, because the human eye has a better dynamic range than a digital camera. It also means you can see the city lights in the bottom left more clearly.

Great to see such a sensible discussion on food stockpiling www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

news.sky.com/story/youngs... I’d be interested in your thoughts (I don’t think it is youngsters who are incentivised)

Another 4 months and another cohort graduates. Less than 80% will be able to get jobs and so the numbers go up and up and up. The problem is no jobs, not lazy people.

In my honest, the big elephant in the room regarding social media and young people is parental addiction.

To complement the other white men who are advising the DFE and Education Minister. In a profession, where the majority are women… And the we have a woman supporting the Behaviour “Tsar”, to make him a Behaviour and Attendance Tsar, after behaviour failed to improve. It’s getting worse..

That second point was kinda my first point, yes... I'm excited to see the make up of the Inclusion panel (writing the EHCP packages and national inclusion standards)... We've got the token white man leading it already...

The deadliest foe in the 1980s was not the Terminator

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

‘All of us seem to be trying to work as if we don’t have children and trying to parent like we don’t have a career’: Evelyn Waite explores the challenges that lead many women to leave teaching shortly after returning from maternity leave

(2/2) ... and the working world doesn't take any note of that at all. The same for those with caring responsibilities for elders or family with more complex needs - there should be more recognition of the role caregivers, in any form, have and support to balance work and home.

If Reform are finding it stressful to deal with the realities of holding political office, then - perhaps - they should STOP STANDING IN ELECTIONS FOR POLITCAL OFFICE. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The thing about flexible working is it does nothing to address the imbalance of domestic responsibilities at home. Without a significant change to the way we work, and the expectations of us to adopt a male pattern of workplace behaviour, I don’t see how mothers can be seriously encouraged to

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman These bros are not okay.

"Winston Churchill is a hero. He’s earned his place on our Five Pound Note. He must not be replaced with an Otter." I'm increasingly convinced that this whole campaign is in fact an elaborate joke.

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

This doesn’t surprise me at all. Running a Base, specialist style, ensures that no one feels alone.

Icelandic photographer Sigga Ella, series of portraits of people with Down's Syndrome, 'First and foremost I am' featuring 21 images, a number she chose as people with Down's Syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21 #WomensArt

My knee is very hurting. GP says bursitis, or, flatteringly, housemaid’s knee. OUCH

Just caught up with this: France is dumping Zoom and Teams. So are soldiers in Austria. And bureaucrats in Germany. They are seeking digital sovereignty, autonomy from the American tech oligarchs. apnews.com/article/euro...

I get the impression Isabel Oakeshott is suddenly going to be preferring the UK to Dubai.

Having worked with digital systems that generate targets and from which one can select interventions…that bit gives me concern and I’d like to be able to tell people in power why. Schools are brilliant - but that doesn’t mean they should do everything.

You got to feel for Matt Goodwin. Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.

Thank goodness for that

Ummmmm…. I do worry about articles like this.. bsky.app/profile/jons...