I have reached the age where going to the tip in the summer hols is an ecstatic experience, unparalleled.

Shocking, of course, but what motivated people to do that, but also what does that say about the culture of the FE sector generally which rewards unsustainable success rates. feweek.co.uk/esol-results-p…

Something I don't think enough people appreciate is the amplification effects of publishing shitty research. Published work becomes a template for others to model their work on. It becomes a source to cite to bolster a misleading claim. Once shitty work is published, it's a gift

This is why people in education are so unwilling to talk about things in public that they will openly acknowledge behind closed doors - because they know there'll be someone like to come along, finger-wagging and slinging mud, ready to try and make trouble with your employer.

Those on the front line deserve much better than having to dance round people like this.

reading shakespeare for the first time is crazy because you go “oh that’s where that comes from” every other page

It's also a national disgrace that many of these young people go to their local FE college and become brickies, chippies, sparkies, designers, engineers, platers, welders, hairdressers, carers etc and these achievements don't get the recognition they deserve.

machine yearning engineer This is related to what I call The Hamlet Effect. When I first read Hamlet in high school, my reaction was “for a guy who’s supposed to be such a great writer, Shakespeare sure used a lot of clichés.”

Oh thank goodness.

Is it Tell Me How Unimportant A-level Results Are Day today?

Tom Starkey "My harvest failed and only got two Es and now I'm going on marches with Nigel Farage so don't worry about your harvest kids"

Teachers of vocational/technical qualifications have also done an amazing job 👍 Students collect these results today, too.

It's also a big day for 000s of students in the amazing Croydon collecting results from their vocational/technical qualifications.

Tom Starkey Clarkson, where are you? 🔎

If you ask them, pupils will tell you the first time they are cat called by grown men is about the end of Y8, so when I hear men complaining about facing some consequences for catcalling women- what can I say?- my heart bleeds...

Last night, we spoke to new joint Vice Captain Ele ahead of the new season. Rossi will share the role with Leonie Bezant! 💛💙 FA Women's National League Suffolk Football Association Women's Football East

There is a vibrant strand of the middle-class liberal imagination that takes unchained delight in mocking and humiliating working class people. From the bottom of my heart, with every fibre, I utterly detest it. And find it hard to be well-disposed toward those who do it

Because management would lose their shit when they get put in the bottom set?