GillianP

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[GillianP @GillianP]

What on earth? CATs test for starting Yr7. Anyone any idea of the scientific validity that leads to a child saying only half their brain is working???

[GillianP @GillianP]

Relay from #NCIExmouth to #CharmouthNCI tomorrow. Arrival due about 1430. Turn up on the green above Heritage Centre if you can. @charmouthhcc #nationalcoastwatch

[GillianP @GillianP]

Huge congratulations to Simon H Williams of #Bridport, UK on the publication of part of his considerable research into #CoeliacDisease. A massive independent effort now available online (and in print) in the peer-reviewed journal. https://t.co/OPKYEtH74Y

[GillianP @GillianP]

@BoschGlobal Larder fridge

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@BoschGlobal Very impressed with Alexis just now on UK helpline. Bless her, she had not a clue about the Bosch ‘engineer’ visit mess-up but handled it really well. Could you please organise a real engineer visit asap?.?

[GillianP @GillianP]

@jonbecker Say more? Are you looking for the teacher to be reviewed for online skills or the course design against measurable institutional requirements or something else?

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@Tonyhobson19 @RoyalFamily Very harsh. Many Mums and Dads spend countless hours figuring out a really good ‘takes a village’ system for early years. Suspect but do not know that HRH has had to do the same. Be kind to parents whoever they may be, please.

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@espressoHE Maybe redefine question? There are a few superb MBA programmes out there that really focus on the international context. All to some extent biased in macro terms but all doing their required multilingual and multicultural best to make sure all their students can work anywhere.

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@_HenryBolton One day, people will all read more than one newsfeed from at least three different countries….

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@Everboleh That was a short phone life!
Computer here back together. Bad engineering, though, for a basic battery change to need a YouTube search and tiny screwdrivers instead of a simple unplug/plug.

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@RachelBustin @FelicityHannah Oh, so mid-Cornwall, then ;) !

[GillianP @GillianP]

@klamma Not been in touch for years but Sorry to see you are in need of ICU and wishing you all the best.

[GillianP @GillianP]

Met good friend @jdrolle today up in Oxford. Talked of retaining skills and edu in local areas and providing the ‘next steps’ of intra-office creativity and business ‘polish’.

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@teacher_cath @Strickomaster Understand where you are coming from but how to avoid ‘school as hub’ becoming yet another expensive admin drain on mainstream school budgets?

[GillianP @GillianP]

@Strickomaster 2/2 Teachers cannot be more than facilitators. Good ones have vast stores of enabling support knowledge - but that is all. The proof of a great teacher is a pupil that soars.

[GillianP @GillianP]

@Strickomaster 1/2 Seriously? Have known 5 year olds catch out their teachers on spelling - and heaven help any normal teacher trying to keep up with an 8 year-old into narrow fields of history or botany or geology. Now take that on a couple of decades.

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A piece to make governments, university VCs and any parent anywhere interested in their own K-12 child’s development really think. If you lose a generation of PhDs, you lose more than the cost of their degrees.

[Alan Kohler @AlanKohler]

Shocking piece by a PhD student now leaving Australia in @theage, about "the truly broken system in which researchers are expected to work in Australia”.
https://t.co/pzs6VmtQnP

[GillianP @GillianP]

Wonderful performance last night of ‘Barber of Somerset’ with primary and middle schools. Tks @JackdawsMusic. Engaged children, laughter and excellent professionals bringing opera alive and making singing fun. #musiceducation

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@LloydsBank Thanks. John. DM sent

[GillianP @GillianP]

@LloydsBank pls DM me. Receiving obvs copy statements for someone not here at least 9 years. Can’t find sensible phone number for you and branch miles away!

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@LloydsBank Thanks Andy. Have done now