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Maggie O’Farrell’s #HAMNET, shortlisted for the 2021 #WalterScottPrize, comes to screens next month. We begin our archive delve with O’Farrell telling the story behind the tragedy of the Shakespeares' son, starting with an insight into their marriage. See the full interview https://loom.ly/oXYli3c#HAMNET

Exclusive: Scotland is to get a new Screen Machine within months after a “colossal” effort to secure the future of the mobile cinema service for the Highlands & Islands raised almost £1.5m. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568092... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

💜 From Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s incredible architecture – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Still dead chuffed (and astonished) that I got to see this band as a teen at the then Giants Stadium, New Jersey, circa 1988. ‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland. Revising my visa essay, applying for three more years here, I read my own scribbled words: Comparable opportunities for critical study do not exist outwith Scotland… —Katie Ailes, “Outwith” Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016

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Exclusive: Survey by @sstatradeunion.bsky.social finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking subject classes, with secondary schools also heavily relying on primary teachers amid ‘deepening crisis’ of staff shortages www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Inside Scotland’s march against poverty Thousands of protesters from Scottish churches, charities and trade unions will take to the streets next week demanding a fair deal for the poor. It’s the first demo of its kind I talk to the man behind the rally in my @heraldscotland.bsky.social long read

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

You are dead to us Jimmy Perez, you traitor. And sassermaet rules!

"[A person] is influenced so much by where they grew up, the landscape, the accents, the sounds surrounding them" I SWEAR, is a funny, tender drama about Tourette syndrome – star Robert Aramayo discusses his approach in SCOTLAND ON SCREEN

Over 60 people came to Aberlour Parish Church of Scotland for the unveiling of textile banners addressing the legacies of slavery in the local area. The event is part of our Dr Jim MacPherson's research project, Legacies of Slavery in Scotland, bit.ly/46Dpf3Q

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Symposium on 29/09 featuring Finnish and Scottish STEM scholars to consider how the Finnish approach to STEM compares with Scotland’s, and what both countries might learn from one another. Open to the public. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illumanati...

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Lovers of books, cruisers of shelves, sniffers of hardbacks, my books tv show is back on telly tonight. Join me John Niven, Desiree Burch and Hallie Rubenhold on the Big Scottish Book Club. 1030pm. A joyful bastion of civilised chat. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Edinburgh friends, particularly those not back to school on 13th August! I'm doing a couple of Edinburgh Festival Fringe events that day, and I am reliably informed that now is a good time to start shouting about it. A FAMILY QUIZ on Scottish history, and a book launch for #ToWarwithWallace!

New: @henryhepburn.bsky.social visits Scotland’s highest-security prison - HMP Shotts - to learn about a new approach to education behind bars and the parallels with priorities in modern schools www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

In Conversation with… Pàdraig MacAoidh 1 August, Edinburgh – £12 Scotland’s Makar, Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) discusses poetry’s role in today’s world, the interplay between Gaelic & Scots traditions, & what it means to be Scotland’s official poetic voice www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

You and me both, Costa Coffee. You and me both.

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

An MEd study on ‘factors impacting the formation of identity for secondary school probationer teachers in Scotland’. Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Really good Long Read - not just describing the problems, but more usefully and unusually giving examples of local initiatives that show how it could be different.

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

Queerness in Scotland has always existed, hidden in medieval manuscripts, coded in Jacobite poetry, or expressed through the arts. In the first of a 3-part series, @nationalgalleries.bsky.social explores queer artforms & artists from Scotland, past & present #Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBC...

Dutch idiom of the day: By avoiding disaster this week, Mark Rutte “kept all the frogs in the wheelbarrow”

Delighted to contribute tonight to the launch of @royalsoced.bsky.social new report on education reform and the national priorities.

Just out: A thing I did for the RSE recently 👇 How does the education reform agenda align with Scotland’s biggest priorities? rse.org.uk/how-does-the...

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes, that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable and unknowable dangers… —Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)” from THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023 20 June is #WorldRefugeeDay

How can Scotland's education reform agenda advance the government's key priorities of eradicating child poverty, growing the economy, and tackling the climate emergency? @royalsoced.bsky.social asked the question, I researched and wrote about it, and the findings are here rse.org.uk/how-does-the...

www.het.org.uk/lessons-from... A fabulous opportunity to learn from the best. All teachers, not just those from the Humanities, should attend an HET workshop. #NewTeachers #StudentTeachers

Early career teachers in Scotland and England - please consider supporting this research project

New: The author of Scotland’s independent review of assessment and qualifications has criticised the Scottish government’s reluctance to change the exam-heavy regime in upper secondary, warning that the system “is not just” and “does not work for many learners”. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Fantastic news. This is a treasure of a book.

Should probationers be offered three year contracts if they are willing to move to schools struggling to recruit? @willierennie.bsky.social is making the call in the wake of an FOI that shows hundreds of teaching posts having to be readvertised www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about why fascists attack public schools. They fear teachers and work to undermine education. I try to answer why in my new book. You can pre-order it here. www.aft.org/book

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What happens when teens spend a few hours a week reading to care home residents? 🤔 Elgin Academy's school library reading project is helping to break down age barriers between teenagers and senior citizens. #LibrariesChangeLives

headline construction masterclass

I might be wrong but could it be because we simply don’t have a shared understanding of what excellent looks likes Which then means excellent isn’t shared explicitly in a way that schools can look at and work towards. Do we all know (and agree) on what excellent looks like?

Looking forward to leading a FREE Scots Song Workshop at Portsoy Boat Festival on Saturday 28th June at The Salmon Bothy. 🎶 Free but booking essential → bit.ly/3ZBXmVH #AhoyPortsoy www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/award-w...

I think about this poem a lot at the minute

Under attack from the Trump administration, Harvard is offering free online courses on the US Constitution, US government, democratic institutions, public engagement, etc. 😉 Do browse. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

The SQA has issued a new set text list for Higher Drama. There are 15 options. 4 (26%) were written by a woman. 0 (0%) were written by someone who isn't white. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2518427...

Exclusive: Only seven schools have been rated ‘excellent’ for learning and teaching since 2016, according to a Tes investigation But is grading schools appropriate? The EIS teaching union argues it fosters 'an ethos of competition and fear of failure' www.tes.com/magazine/ana...