Cara Maree
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English teacher in North London. 27 years in the classroom and still loving it.
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Warwick Mansell
2 days ago
New: Do DfE white paper proposals move England towards blanket academisation, or not? What an almighty mess
educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/do-...
Analysis piece on the academy aspects of yesterdayâs white paper.
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Education Uncovered | Analysis| Do DfE white paper proposals move England towards blanket academisation, or not? What an almighty mess
Government seems curiously reluctant to talk about âacademy trusts,â preferring the less specific term âschool trustsâ. Which makes it unclear what its intentions are.
https://educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/do-dfe-white-paper-proposals-move-england-towards-blanket-academisation-or-not-what-an-almighty-mess
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Jim Waterson
4 days ago
Londonâs âworst mass eviction in recent historyâ is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Azizâs Criterion Capital.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind Londonâs biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-mass-eviction-billionaire-landlord-criterion-capital
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Just watched Blow the Man Down. Real sense of claustrophobic small town menace. Such a great cast.
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Tes magazine
9 days ago
The government should review those chosen to draft the new national curriculum because the list has a âdeeply concerning lack of diversityâ, according to an open letter with nearly 100 signatories
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Lack of diversity among curriculum drafters âdeeply concerningâ
Open letter with nearly 100 signatories calls for a âmore diverse rangeâ of drafters to write the new national curriculum, warning there is a risk of ânarrowâ content
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/national-curriculum-draft-team-lack-of-diversity
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Sue Cowley
12 days ago
Talking yesterday with people about how education in England has become too static for healthy development and about how some of the behaviour issues we see are at heart about children and young people needing to move more and be outdoors more.
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Peter Stefanovic
20 days ago
âThe combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?â Oli Dugmore Itâs absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
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Ben Newmark
28 days ago
Thoughts on this mess. đ§ľđ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Do not always send suspended students home, government tells schools
Changes to England's school system say on-site suspensions should be used for non-violent behaviour.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r425pyl57o
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The universities talk a good game of student support services at Open Days, but the reality is very different once the kids get there. I'm sure the huge funding crisis doesn't help.
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Warwick Mansell
about 1 month ago
New: Average pay and pensions packages for CEOs of academy trusts, just outside Englandâs 10 largest, approached ÂŁ300,000 last year
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/average...
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Education Uncovered | News| Average pay and pensions packages for CEOs of academy trusts, just outside Englandâs 10 largest, approached ÂŁ300,000 last year
New analysis by Education Uncovered shows a ÂŁ200,000 salary is becoming standard among larger chains â with pensions payments where disclosed averaging more than ÂŁ50,000.
https://educationuncovered.co.uk/news/average-pay-and-pensions-packages-for-ceos-of-academy-trusts-just-outside-englands-10-largest-approached-300000-last-year
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Warwick Mansell
about 1 month ago
New: Academy trust appears to pay its former chief executive ÂŁ250,000 â for nine monthsâ work
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy...
GLF Schoolsâ accounts disclose this top pay figure, even though their longer-serving CEO during 2024-25 left in May last year.
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Education Uncovered | News| Academy trust appears to pay its former chief executive ÂŁ250,000 â for nine monthsâ work
Relatively lenient disclosure requirements on academy trusts in terms of senior leader pay make it impossible to know for sure the recipient of the money. But its leader for most of the year was Julia...
https://educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy-trust-appears-to-pay-its-former-chief-executive-250000-for-nine-months-work
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What now? Only 2 people working on the English national curriculum? I don't understand. Why?
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Centre for Young Lives
about 2 months ago
The New Year is a good time for making changes, and weâve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X. Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
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Sue Cowley
about 2 months ago
I don't honestly see how the DfE and Ofsted remaining on Twitter meets the teacher standards. Surely it's not safeguarding pupils' wellbeing or showing respect for the rights of others? Sorry to go on about it but really? đ
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Warwick Mansell
3 months ago
"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett.
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https://chscp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JG-121225-.pdf
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Women in Neuroscience UK
3 months ago
Exam season is officially here - and staying motivated, focused, and well can feel like a challenge. Weâve teamed up with
@drckt.bsky.social
and
@learningscientists.bsky.social
to share research-informed strategies to help you revise more effectively and look after your wellbeing.
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Tara Conlan
4 months ago
Londoners, see what would have become of your home and why parts of the capital now look like they do. Fascinating interview by
@jim.londoncentric.media
with Chris Marshall on what we can learn from the history of what didnât happen
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
https://open.substack.com/pub/londoncentric/p/london-ringways-urban-motorways-unbuilt-roads-first-map?r=126it&utm_medium=ios
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Long Covid Advocacy
4 months ago
đ§ľ Important new study out in Cell Reports Medicine (Shahbaz et al. 2025): đ Long Covid with ME/CFS isnât the same in women and men - biologically. đ And itâs not âfatigue.â Itâs immune, hormonal, and neurological chaos. Letâs break it down layperson style đ
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Disability Rights UK
4 months ago
24% of Disabled people avoid using public transport due to accessibility issues. 4.7 million Disabled people live in poverty. The politicians who make the above stats a reality are choosing to attack the Motability Scheme, instead of the system that locks us out of society.
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Barbara Bleiman
4 months ago
If youâre an English teacher, please do this. Your views matter & we want them represented in our survey!
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Carla Da Silva đ
5 months ago
Again, iGCSEs - which aren't available to those in state schools - gain a possible advantage. While I don't disagree with open book (learning quotations is a waste of learning time), this just widens the gap and creates further inequality in an already unfair system.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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Cambridge to make all IGCSE English literature exams open book
Students already had the possibility of consulting drama texts in the exam but, in future, all Cambridge IGCSE literature in English papers will be open book, including prose
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/specialist-sector/cambridge-makes-all-igcse-english-literature-exams-open-book?utm_campaign=2146654_20251014%20Tes%20Daily%20-%20Tuesday&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&utm_content=2146654_20251014%20Tes%20Daily%20-%20Tuesday&dm_i=5NNY,1A0DA,LOWVT,5XGK3,1
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Dr Ian McCormick
5 months ago
The Security Service (MI5) kept files on Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife, Lady Diana Mosley, from 1933 shortly after he founded the British Union of Fascists. "BRITAIN FIRST" --- sounds familiar?
#History
#antifa
#archives
#fascism
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RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder
5 months ago
Even when told about DLD lots of people don't seem to get what it is. And so we asked the experts, people with DLD (Developmental Language Disorder). One young person said DLD was 'trying to learn, but the words won't click.' How do you explain DLD to others?
#DLDday
#DevLangDis
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Thanks to Joe for reading Reforming Lessons, so I don't have to!
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Tes magazine
5 months ago
Leaders say debates on immigration, race and St Georgeâs flags have caused multiple complex repercussions in schools, yet there has been no guidance or assistance from the government
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Schools criticise support âvacuumâ as racial tensions rise
Concerned leaders tell Tes the government has not equipped them to deal with debates on immigration, race and St Georgeâs flags
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/schools-criticise-support-vacuum-racial-tensions-st-georges-flag
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Margot Finn
5 months ago
Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.
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Grade deflation, overcrowding and âchaosâ as colleges scr...
Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/grade-deflation-overcrowding-and-chaos-as-colleges-scramble-for-fees
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
5 months ago
An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
5 months ago
Violent crime leading to injury is falling in every borough. This progress is thanks to our police and prevention through my London Violence Reduction Unit. One violent crime is one too many, which is why we will continue working to build a safer London for everyone.
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Sadiq Khan hits back at âmisinformationâ as data shows fall in crimes
The mayor of London has hit back at politicians âspreading misinformationâ about safety in the capital
https://www.mylondon.news/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-hits-32567310
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Barbara Bleiman
5 months ago
Another email from an English teacher this morning about the appalling NATIONAL SCANDAL of GCSE English marking. They gave their permission to quote the email in full & I want to share it because it is so shocking. What are Ofqual & DfE doing about this?
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Kelly
5 months ago
Did you know ICE is holding a disabled advocate and whistleblower who helped shut down one of their detention centres? Alma Bowman is a 58 year old woman from Georgia who spent 30 months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime. When released she became a fearless advocate for detainees đ§ľ
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Babel: The Language Magazine
5 months ago
đ A reminder that National Linguistics Day is coming up in November!
@linguisticshq.bsky.social
đ Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate đ§ Contact
[email protected]
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Alex Quigley
6 months ago
đ¨ NEW POST đ¨ âAdaptive teaching: Stretch and challengeâ âWe can ensure high prior attainers are not bored, or go unchallenged, as much as we rightly focus on supporting struggling students not to fall behind their peers.â
alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-tea...
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Adaptive teaching: Stretch and challenge
"A precocious child," Miss Honey said, "is one that shows amazing intelligence early on. You are an unbelievably precocious child.â "Am I really?" Matilda asked. Adaptive teaching is usually discus...
https://alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-teaching-stretch-and-challenge/
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Laura McInerney
6 months ago
I started teaching just after 7/7 in a mainly Muslim school. At the time, Islamaphobia was running high. I remember asking a Yr8 girl how it affected her and the nonchalantly delivered answer still chills: â*shrugs* We get spat on more now, I guessâ MORE. Thatâs what racism does. To young girls.
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The English Association
7 months ago
Quite the interview đđź with one of our v own fellows
@katherinerundell.bsky.social
#Reading
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radical with Amol Rajan - Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell) - BBC Sounds
Childrenâs author Katherine Rundell on the crisis of reading amongst kids.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gr0r?partner=uk.co.bbc
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Margot Finn
8 months ago
Quite important for the future of especially Humanities but also Social Sciences. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.
on.ft.com/44i1pcN
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How to get children reading again
Fewer young people are reading for pleasure than ever before, with broad economic and social consequences. Can the trend be reversed?
https://www.ft.com/content/71911235-a5b6-4fae-a47f-f348a9e02817
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University English
9 months ago
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Prof Christina Pagel
9 months ago
A must read
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A Chronic Voice
10 months ago
âA woman who lost a
#kidney
, her womb and parts of her vagina and bowel due to
#endometriosis
has urged others to fight for a
#diagnosis
of what she has described as a "silent assassin".â:
buff.ly/rzMSlCx
via bbc
#ChronicIllness
#InvisibleIllness
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Leeds endometriosis sufferer's warning over 'silent assassin'
Stacey, from Leeds, underwent robotic surgery after one of her kidneys failed due to the condition.
https://buff.ly/rzMSlCx
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Alex Quigley
10 months ago
đ¨ NEW POST đ¨ âLearning Barriers, not labelsâ âWould you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?â
alexquigley.co.uk/learning-bar...
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Learning barriers, not labels
Let me introduce you to James. James finds it hard to articulate his thoughts due to limits to his vocabulary and a difficulty in understanding complex language in class. He can rely on simple words,...
https://alexquigley.co.uk/learning-barriers-not-labels/
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Long Covid Advocacy
10 months ago
đŠâđť Call for 5 research centres focused on specific areas for
#ME
Plan builds on the DecodeME study Experts state the "paucity of researchers" coming into the field and urgent steps for a vibrant new research ecosystem đą đď¸
tinyurl.com/38xrdjad
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Laura Kelly
11 months ago
100% this. Canât understand why these toxic campaigners choose to focus their energy and hatred towards a minority of people just trying to live their lives when it is cisgender men who are perpetrating violence against women on a daily basis. Solidarity with trans people now and always.
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Tes magazine
11 months ago
Most teachers believe the level of support for pupils with SEND has decreased in the past five years, according to new
@nasuwt-official.bsky.social
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Most teachers have seen a drop in SEND support
Four in 10 teachers say the number of specialist support staff working with pupils with SEND in their school has fallen, NASUWT polling shows
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/most-teachers-have-seen-drop-send-support-in-schools
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Mike Galsworthy
11 months ago
Forcing people back into the âworkplaceâ is a good way to destroy productivity.
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Forcing people back into the âworkplaceâ is a good way to destroy productivity
Some employers want employees to work five days a week in the office. But this could actually be damaging productivity
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/forcing-people-back-into-the-workplace-is-a-good-way-to-destroy-productivity/
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Dr Debra Kidd
11 months ago
We've spent the best part of a year exploring assessment in school. We've overhauled our reporting systems, built in moderation processes and undertaken peer observation cycles. The key finding in it all is that great formative assessment depends on good oracy.
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Brigit Strawbridge
11 months ago
A sobering thread. It shouldn't be this way... but do please read Ian
@iand777.bsky.social
's thread and follow his advice by looking at Surfers Against Sewage website for up-to-date local sewage information, before going into the sea... or putting your hands in rock pools.
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Geoff Barton
11 months ago
Good to see educationâs âforgotten thirdâ not forgotten, but as
@ascl-uk.bsky.social
president
@mannybotwe.bsky.social
says: thereâs âplenty of talk, but not enough actionâ.
schoolsweek.co.uk/the-schools-...
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Forgotten third: The schools defying the odds for pupils
We spoke to schools that are bucking the national trend, with impressive attainment in English and maths
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/the-schools-working-hard-for-the-forgotten-third/
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Quakers in Britain
11 months ago
đ¨ Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. đ¨ This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.đď¸ đ
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house
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Peps
11 months ago
*Diagnostic overshadowing* can thwart inclusive teaching. What's useful for teachers to know: â
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