Hepi boss Nick Hillman on MAC review: 'It cannot be repeated too often that the overwhelming majority of international students come here, spend lots of money and then go home with warm views about the UK. What’s not to like about that?'

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Cracking updates and analysis from the team (as always), for those wondering what on earth is going on - here’re your lunchtime reading:

So, the bugs that put me in hospital recently were multi-resistant E. coli. No oral antibiotics would work, so I was on IV for 8 days; 2nd line was looking challenging had the infection not responded.

#AMR isn't a new problem, but the can is continuously kicked down the road...

Come join this fun ECR event at #EPSYork24 ! It will be an awesome conference and this social is the icing on the (North Yorkshire) cake.

Appalling. Just awful.

Managed to fit in a some printing action on my new press. Oh I do like it. Lovely clean prints. Now to work on my registration (lining up)

How might the role of the FE teacher change in the future? Hear Kerry Heathcote from @cwa_college share a prediction in the #BeyondtheTechnology podcast!

Listen to the full episode: ji.sc/btt-48
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One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.

Here's a 🧵 explaining why...

With a grandaughter sitting GCSEs, I wonder why we have to reduce good students to tears and immense stress that many adults would reject? The expectations are immense across EVERY subject. It's 'perform' or you're a failure. Why do we do this to children?

theguardian.com/society/articl… Is alleged 'borderline personality disorder' actually Post Traumatic Stress? One of the most interesting articles I've read.
Working with MDTs on mental health wards for years, can't think of any alleged BPD cases where there wasn't extensive trauma.

Tomorrow I’m talking about AI tools in higher ed and what this means for students and educators alike. I’ll aim to explore the positive examples I’ve seen to the dangers and limitations. The session will be a culmination of the last few years of my workshops on AIED.

Regard this as a 'FOR THE RECORD' Post. In his new book, Magic Pill, about so-called fat drugs like Ozempic, Johann Hari says I was prescribed the drug but gave it up because it robbed me of pleasure in food. (See screenshot). This is complete and utter bollocks. 1/

Choosing '30 different plants a week' is just the food equivalent to '10,000 steps a day' - catchy but irrelevant. Just another middle class 'health target' for the ZOE clan. But a reminder that fruit'n'veg intake is a proxy marker for disposable income thetimes.co.uk/article/a-week…

I start every academic year by creating a group agreement with students. ‘No cold calling’ has consistently the first thing on every list for the past 10 years.

Kinda says it all 🤷‍♀️

'For every transphobic, racist, bigoted 'Doctor Who' fan we lose this season, there will be 3 to 5 new fans who are coming in for the representation. So to those fans - who are not fans - I say, 'Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
- Jinkx Monsoon
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If you want a good example of how power works in Britain, just consider how many broadsheet front pages are devoted to the relatively trifling problems of private schools by comparison to the day-to-day and long term problems faced by the state sector (where the vast majority of…

Wondering if everyone in the UK will wake up blind in the morning #triffids #wyndham

York! #aurora

Summer in Yorkshire and it’s taking too long to get dark #aurora

It should indeed. Completely pointless bit of vandalism from the government.

Labour should pledge now to reverse the changes.