Post-16 Educator

By & for post-16 educators & activists. Ed.: Colin Waugh. New contributors welcome. Contact: [email protected].

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

— Aldous Huxley

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Happy birthday to Ursula K. Le Guin. "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Post-16 Educator 125, Oct.-Dec. '26

The Arday case; Reviews: Mazzucato, Lawrence & Williams, Standing; NEETs; AI & graduate prospects; Fircroft College & the Folk High School trad.; Zines & academic literacy; English support for HE students in Gaza
https://t.co/zFvnAMcpjJ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The crisis grows worse for the Government in Albania as all the University staff across the country have walked out and joined the protests.

Here an Albanian student emphatically explains the problems, crippling costs and terrible services.

The same as in many other countries.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Post-16 Educator 125, Oct.-Dec. '26

The Arday case; Reviews: Mazzucato, Lawrence & Williams, Standing; NEETs; AI & graduate prospects; Fircroft College & the Folk High School trad.; Zines & academic literacy; English support for HE students in Gaza
https://t.co/zFvnAMcpjJ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Never forget which side you are on.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

How do young #post16 FE and 6FC students view the French student #protests?

Angry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why | Kitty Sayers | The Guardian https://t.co/FpG5EvdnSM

[UCU @ucu]

UCU have called a day of action in every University in the UK on Friday 20th November. We will be working with sister unions to ensure the biggest possible support for protests, rallies and events that will be held on this day.

This is part of our fight to protect jobs and courses as well as build solidarity across the union.

Materials will be dispatched to every branch. Start your local planning now.

[Comprehensive Future @comp_future]

Is the 11-plus system 'rigged against poorer pupils?' Pass rates in poorer areas are significantly lower. Pupils attending private schools achieve the highest pass rate of any group. Expensive test tuition is commonplace. Why do we allow this inequality? https://t.co/nP5yAw3fvv

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson explained in 2 minutes.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Why should we be interested in the opinions of this nepo baby? It’s offensive to highly qualified @faizashaheen that she has to debate him.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@Helen_Whately .... Tories like her.

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@Helen_Whately Helen will not be mobilised. @Helen_Whately will not be put on the front or any line. Cut the social wage, squeeze public services, put working class youth in uniform to defend a country potholed & fractured by Tories like here? What do #Post16 educators & students make of it?

[mike hopkins @hoppy1848]

@Post16Educator

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@hoppy1848 Great to have been found, Mike : ) Next issue out in a day or so - hard copies almost in the post. It will be put online shortly after that. Archive of previous issues on the website

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Sadly, paywall protected @LucyMPowell
Supporting the linguistic confidence & competence of young people is a very good thing.
As long as it resists ideas of linguistic deficit.
But how does this deal the real problems of AI: global corporate power playing risk with our lives.

[Lucy Powell MP @LucyMPowell]

“With AI on the rise, we need to go harder on the skills that makes us human, like oracy.

That ability to articulate yourself confidently is central to success in work and life, but for too long it’s been a marker of privilege.

Now it will become the right of every child.”

Read more 👇

https://t.co/i9eCtZLA4Q

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

Excellent discussion prompt for post-16 education.

What the billionaires are asking us to do.

https://t.co/nwgPGKpDha

[UCU @ucu]

University of Brighton management is threatening to tear up longstanding agreements protecting staff rights, working conditions and trade union recognition.

UCU branch chair Ryan Burns explains what’s at stake and why members are fighting back.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Watch the full interview:

https://t.co/zZ4A9tjbkX

[Post-16 Educator @Post16Educator]

@I_amMukhtar None of the self-proclaimed 'Christian patriots' offer to help him cut the grass, or run a food bank, or build a community.

Surprising?

But these experiences of #solidarity within our communuties whatever our differences of religion and belief need amplifying.