This is an interesting thread. What strikes me, without having read the article, just mulling you know, is whether the profession is actually believed - whether outside observers think teachers are a/ NOT following the plan or b/ exaggerating or c/ not understanding why CYP behave the way they do

If Reeves said this, or anything like it, it's the most rank, crass stupidity. The idea of a Reform govt fills me with horror. But ffs Labour; you're making yourselves literally impossible to support.

"There is a real, deep sickness for my generation..." Oli Dugmore, the New Statesman's Digital Editor, on the burden of student loan debt. #Newsnight

“I borrowed in total £55,000…” “How much do you owe now?" “£72,000” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Dr Arthur Joustra, a trainee paediatrician, about how his student loan debt has risen since he graduated in 2022 - despite making payments. #Newsnight

“I do not think this is a moral thing for you to do...” Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans. #Newsnight

The resourced provision needs a senco of its own - and especially so if there is a lot of multi-agency working

The frustration of the parent watching the recently graduated child apply (desultorially - is that a word even) for jobs. Has to be a title for a novel there

“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

Interesting thread here which raises thoughtful points : how do we move on from here (regardless of how we have got here in the first place).

This all stems from the idea that there has been a massive increase in mental illness and related welfare costs since COVID. If not true, it should be debunked but if it is true. it does warrant investigation to address the misery and massive cost.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

LET’S SHOUT AT PEOPLE TO MAKE THEM BETTER (fall in line)

Nurturing the joy of learning ✨

What a remarkable—& remarkably depressing—thread. I've been genuinely astounded at the magnitude & speed of RFK Jr's destruction of the federal public health system. He has been wildly successful, in a short time, at achieving his anti-vaxx, conspiracy theorist dreams. And he's just getting started.

It strikes me that Tories must be rubbing their hands with glee over the prospect of ‘More U-Turns’ over SEND reform. To be fair, I’m not sure that a return to Tory rule (under any guise) will be good for either education or SEND in any of its forms.

Trump on NATO: "The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call". We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Cherwell District Council has become the first of Oxfordshire’s principal councils to leave X (formerly Twitter). Council leader Chris Brant said “Elon Musk's platform no longer meets the standards we expect for public engagement.”

Journalists who haven't done their research. The angle is already decided. Their job is to write it up convincingly. It's embarrassing.

Oh goodness, this is not helpful (the letter, that is)

On this day 29th December 1975 “Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK (Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)

I saw this old movie clip floating around Instagram and hoo boy it was so prescient that I had to bring it over here. When Katharine Hepburn tells you who the villains are, you’d better listen.

@loicmnzs.bsky.social 👋🏼👋🏼

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

I thought a school must provide a report for an Annual Review, I must say. *makes a note to look up the Code of Practice

A great walk this morning on the edge of the Lakes. Wonderful to see the lingering mist in the valley below us. It hasn't rained all day today!

Heh heh

There will be no extra money for next year's teacher pay award, the Treasury has confirmed, meaning the DfE would have to fund any award from existing budgets

Oooo! JAMES! SIT DOWN!

14th December 2025 08.28

Also just triggered myself reading son 2 a blog I once wrote about him and how damaging some of the practice at his primary school was to him, and we both had an accidental cry (and now the tea is late, ooops)

Reading the school to school improvement papers out of the DfE (2015) for my NPQH is like reading Twitter from the same era.

Apparently on the 10th December I feel cross about everything there is still yet to do

10. It's naive, or even disingenuous to say that adaptions are mostly just simple, small and inexpensive things that are straightforward to implement and have no trade offs. This doesn't mean we shouldn't do them but we need to be honest in our conversations about the challenges.

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

Give me more of this England, please - the one with lovely people in it.

On a monster evening drive up the M1 to see the in-laws and deliver presents etc and I have nothing better to do than ruminate on th day.

It’s incredibly disrespectful and we’ve told them so

In the context of individual children’s support, I think regular information sharing and solution-seeking conversations with families, schools, social care and health trumps any generic training. Wasn’t this at the heart of the 2015 reforms?

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

MORE TALKING SHOPS

If anyone knows exactly what is meant here, and more training is the answer, with the years they’ve had to think about it, there should be some excellent models out there …

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be?

Time to take The Market out of education, if you ask me.

More words. You need teams