📣 Exciting job alerts at my school & trust
→ AIM North London has over 50 languages spoken
→ A *significant* proportion of students are eligible for the PP
→ Current results make us the most improved school in Enfield
Come work with me!
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Single mum on You & Yours saying her rent in East London is going up £300. Given she'll also be dealing with energy and food increases, it's going to be impossible.
Her options are move to 1-bed and share room with kids, or find another single mum & have all kids share a room.
As politicians focus all of their efforts on the chaos in Westminster, official government figures show the damage done to children's education and life chances.
Following the pandemic, both secondary and primary school attainment gaps have widened to the largest level in 10yrs.
The problem with today's report on education from the Tony Blair Institute is it reads like it could have been written in 1985.
It's promoting ideas that were the future, once.
And it doesn't even seem aware of genuinely cutting-edge ideas with transformative potential.
Recruitment into postgrad teacher training in England has gone very badly this year, a sign of renewed teacher supply challenges that need addressing
- How bad is it?
- Why has it gone so badly?
- What do we do now?
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I wrote for @NewStatesman on why private schools aren't "losing" Oxbrdge places; rather we're just starting to see the unfair advantages they've always had countered. https://t.co/b3AYfV4qdv
The government has announced that free parking for NHS staff will end after the pandemic. 😫
RT if you think that all NHS staff should be entitled to free parking at their place of work! ❤️
This is devastating and unnecessary.
Why should you be kept out of a music, or art, or dance, or drama degree for getting a grade 3 in maths? Why should you be stopped from gaining a maths degree for getting a 3 in English?
And why let rich kids avoid these rule?!
Ok, given the anti-vaxx sentiment for childhood vaccination of 5-11 year olds is in full flow, thought some helpful facts might help debunk myths and provide factual information around this. Here goes...
🚨 Blog: No more teaching tips & tricks!🪄
5 min read
Teachers: this gives you *nothing* you can use on Monday morning & you'll love it.
Teacher educators: let's train teachers about learning so they can make better decisions about how/how not to teach.
https://t.co/Jh43GtZ5Ml
The energy crisis will hurt disabled people. Many are still shielding so home 24/7. We’re more likely to already be in poverty. We also need more heating for health reasons. If you’ve got poor mobility, you can’t move to warm up. If you’ve got arthritis, the cold is excruciating.
Honestly, the way the government bang on about it you'd think every graduate abandons their home town and runs away. This is really a lot less movement than I expected. #LevellingUp
Today's substack post looking at whether kids' mental health really is getting worse and whether social media is to blame? (Free to read).
https://t.co/Lo0nrAhahp