Remarkable. And so, so true.

This is a dire situation. A group of us from Common English Forum spoke to DfE a few years ago about the 'life cycle' of an English teacher, how it was being broken & urgent action was needed, starting with GCSE & its effects, the push for STEM, without 1/ theguardian.com/education/2023…

Just a quick reminder that we are fighting fascism and nice is not our fucking priority.

On being ‘nice’. (excerpts from p281-2: amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/057136…)

When our newspapers give column inches to the parents of children at private schools bemoaning how hard it is to find a ‘good state school’ it’s also a reminder of just how socially exclusive journalism is as a profession.

My PhD is investigating the experiences of teachers who are also mothers to pre-school children. Please help by sharing or completing my survey if you are eligible. Survey link: reading.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/research-surve…

BREAKING As revealed by Teachers Talk Radio one week ago, Sir Martyn Oliver is to become the next chief inspector of Ofsted Oliver is currently the CEO of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust youtube.com/live/qmIIQDcB-…

High exclusions and isolation use in his MAT One of the authors of the Sewell Report Anti antiracism and anti decolonising the curriculum What more could you want in the new head of Ofsted if you wanted to make a statement?

If you're going to defend the charitable status of private schools because of bursaries and scholarships given to the disadvantaged, remember only 4% of private school turnover is devoted to bursaries, and only 1% of private school pupils get to go for free. 1/2

I officially graduated last month, which means my PhD thesis is finally available on the university repository - "Communication failure and civil war in Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Bellum Ciuile and Statius' Thebaid" - link here if you want to have a read! eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72102/

In case you're wondering why there's distrust among Black, Indigenous & other PoC when it comes to the medical field, here is another reason why. Those poor Punjabi women 😔. BIPOC have been abused & betrayed in the name of western medical advancement for centuries.

Helping make sense of this chess obsession: Half the funding goes directly to English Chess Federation (ECF), whose president is right-wing journalist & son of former conservative minister, Dominic Lawson. ECF also sponsored by Sunak's Winchester College. gov.uk/government/new…

🔎 How do highly able pupils who receive Free School Meals perform in comparison to their more advantaged peers throughout school? Our research shows that gaps between pupils are baked in from an early age, later accelerating in secondary school 👇 buff.ly/46vzh4M

Do you think kids in London are smarter than kids in the North East (where I’m from)? No. Well the gap in top GCSE grades between London (28% top grades) and the NE (17%) is shocking then. We’re simply not providing enough support to close the attainment gap between richer and

Today in #history: Virgil is born. (70 BCE). #OnThisDay ➡️ Read more: worldhistory.org/virgil/

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