🛡️ 'In effect, the pledge would more than double the Conservatives’ annual spend on CPD' Ambition Institute's Marie Hamer on Labour's big teacher training pledge

Not now, giant pulsating black hole!

👀 'At school they told us we wouldn’t amount to much, and at the youth club they told us our lives had purpose. I decided I was going to believe the church’s story” Don't miss our profile of Oasis founder, @stevechalke.bsky.social

I loved writing this. I could’ve written so much more about @stevechalke.bsky.social, who I found truly inspirational. “I’ve got to leave because I’ve got to set up a school and a hospital and a house.” Now that’s mission-driven! schoolsweek.co.uk/chalke-it-up...

Good morning 🌅 It’s Sunday which means it’s time for another #Edujobs #EduSky bulletin. If you’re looking for non-classroom education jobs, this next hour is my gift to you. Wave if you’re watching 👀 Share if I miss one 🙌🏼 Shout when you get one 📣

Arrivederci, Ann. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out 👋

Tim is 100% correct about the Ofsted changes.

The Chinese get it (and it's aligned to their thinking I guess). Caving to Trump will only make you weaker when the next demand comes, and it will come. It's about dominance and power. The liberal rules based order (however flawed) is dead. Europe needs to recognize this and act accordingly.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Out-outstanding. Out-out-outstanding. In fact, let’s call the middle grade just Standing. Then we can have outstanding and understanding.

So ends a battle that should never have had to have been fought. The story of this mine is one of fundamentally dishonest arguments supported by dishonest politicians, finally put to rest by heroic people who should never have had their time wasted on this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

🗞️ Edition 390 done and dusted... @rosafurneaux.bsky.social reveals the huge amounts councils spend on private SEND schools with repeated failures @lydiach.bsky.social has the inside track on Ofsted's latest thinking about grading Subscribe schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to... #tomorrowspaperstoday

🗞️This week's FE Week front page: 16-19 capacity cash for Leeds and Manchester as classrooms elsewhere ‘bursting at the seams’ Subscribe | feweek.co.uk/subscribe/ #TomorrowsPapersToday

Truss Maga-Trump #niche #PokemonGo

Schools in open fields. Children bullied, ridiculed and hit. Teachers already under police investigation. In a rare interview, Ofsted's illegal schools team spoke to me about the horrors they've witnessed and the taxpayer money funding some of their worst cases schoolsweek.co.uk/what-we-see-...

Great to hear school payment provider sQuid has dropped its £10 refund “fee”. Parents should get their money back before the new term… Thanks to those who tipped @schoolsweek.bsky.social to the story a few weeks ago, and the outlets that picked it up. Shining a light really makes a difference

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

Perfect 🤣🎯

How to get MAT CEO pay under control - if ministers dare… schoolsweek.co.uk/the-solution...

I had a prostate examination. It wasn’t pleasant but it was quick and minor. The consultant talked about how many people my age haven’t had one and should. So I said I’d casually mention it in case it encourages others to. So I am. And also I’m posting it on Bluesky. Consider contacting your GP.

Edition 389, done and dusted ✂️ We reveal schools are bracing for staff cuts after spring statement snub, as DfE cost-cutters ramp up their advice 🔍 @rosafurneaux.bsky.social lands a rare interview with Ofsted’s illegal schools team Subscribe: schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to...

Another belter

This aeticle is 🔥🔥🔥 schoolsweek.co.uk/its-official...

It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.

I honestly love this piece. It’s got everything 👇

This is 🔥 Workload appears to be quite literally out of control…

The @theeef.bsky.social is looking for a small number of general FE & 6th form colleges to form an evidence partnership that will support colleges to access, understand, & apply research evidence for 16 to 19 teaching & learning. Find out more: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/networks/evi...

Between them they can probably find £250 million down the back of their sofas… Maybe a benefit gig? Call it Band Ed… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Fun thing to do this weekend is enter an edtech app you have to use and see if it has a rating from @internetsafetylabs.bsky.social You can try powerschool or class dojo FYI, ISL is looking for funding to continue its much needed work on protecting children from edtech harms.

What’s incredible is that men have hardly smashed this leadership thing for the last six years…

The open disdain these men have for teachers is just gross. And notable too: the connection to ClassDojo should be further evidence of the platform as a vehicle to surveil, control, and punish. If there was ever a time to develop a Luddite praxis in education to resist/refuse AI, now is that time.

Humbled and encouraged by Tim Oates' kind words on the Curriculum and Assessment Review's Interim Report @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/the-francis-...

Without guardrails US AI-platforms should be banned from European education institutions. And Europe in general as far as I'm concerned.

Great to catch up with @pepediiasio.bsky.social ahead of #ASCL2025 about how the sector must call out leaders who turn away children with SEND, his concerns about Ofsted reform plans and what he wants to hear from @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and Martyn Oliver today schoolsweek.co.uk/ascl-head-le...

The thing I’ve learned about narcissism is that its only true antidote is boredom. Your emotions are catnip to a narcissist. Your boredom, on the other hand, is their cue to leave.

🏆Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Apprenticeships and Training Awards

Ofsted will 'think again' if there is sector-wide opposition to its report card plans – including another consultation if necessary, the watchdog’s national director has said

Good morning from plenary one at #ATC2025 It’s a new venue, new name, but same cheesy opening gags from Shane and Kirstie Up this morning will be Ofsted’s Lee Owston

I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.

I’ve been digging into the quality of EHCPs, plans that parents are dragged through court sometimes to obtain, and that are bankrupting councils What’s actually in them? Are they good quality? Personalised? Include interventions backed by evidence? Are they fully funded? The answer often is no

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social We’d love to have you at the Festival of Education in July. We’ve sent an invite to your parliamentary email. I’d be happy to DM some details about the opportunity. Thanks!

🗞️This week's FE Week front page: Schools out, colleges full: New funding won’t cover 16-19 boom Subscribe | feweek.co.uk/subscribe/ #TomorrowsPapersToday

Edition 386 done and dusted ⚠️ Heads open up over parent abuse ‼️ @johndickenssw.bsky.social exposes how EHCPs fail the most vulnerable Plus @rhistorer.bsky.social talks attendance with @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social Subscribe: schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to...

If we had actual edtech governance this kind of admission in the media would have the ICO on your doorstep tomorrow asking for DPIA and we’d have governors asking why such ridiculous tech is used in lessons. As well as the sustainability when these children are already inheriting a burning planet.

I find it depressing that be NCSC flagship event cyber U.K. has absolutely nothing for education. The last thing it did was a terrible panel in 2021 Education is in the top three targets for criminals, but we can ignore it all for vendor talks by USA companies which will say nothing

'Servant of the people:' a humble man elected as president, with a mandate to drive out corruption in his nation; a fiction that became reality. On the week when this mission moved onto the world stage, it's well worth a watch.