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Deputy Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education. All opinions my own

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Prof Damien Page

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Thrilled to have been appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor @_BNUni , a hugely innovative, inclusive and ambitious university at the vanguard of transforming higher education. An exciting place with talented colleagues, wonderful students and I can’t wait to get started in June

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Prof Damien Page

4 years

Private schools received greatest increase in grades; schools in disadvantaged areas received greatest decrease. Anyone surprised?

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The only time the right care about working class white boys is when they become ammunition in the right-fabricated culture war. Try feeding them. Heating their homes. Funding their schools. Increasing support services. Try that and see what happens to university numbers

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‘Can you teach maths?’

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Poverty. The answer is poverty. The highest rate of childhood poverty in decades

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4 months

The Horizon Post Office scandal was not a failure of technology, it was a failure of leadership. A failure to listen. A failure to understand that data can be wrong. A failure to maintain professional doubt. A failure to prioritise people. A failure to empathise. A failure to ask

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‘In one case… a girl was not attending school because she had to share her only pair of shoes with her mother – meaning she could not go to school if her mother needed to wear shoes that day’. Forget mentoring, address poverty to increase attendance

Government to fund school ‘attendance mentors’ in worst-hit areas of England

Latest attempt to tackle pupil absences criticised as failing to tackle the magnitude of the problem

www.theguardian.com

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Personally, I prefer this type of headteacher

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1 year

Ofsted do not help schools improve; they help them pass Ofsted inspections - the two things are very different

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‘Deeply sorry’ Ofsted chief rejects call for halt in inspections after head’s death

After Ruth Perry’s family demand urgent review, Amanda Spielman says she is open to debate about grading

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

When every educator becomes as outraged about a 15 year old black girl being strip-searched by police inside a school as they do about mobile phones, lack of eye contact and skirts one inch too short, our children will be far better off

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You know what, I’m reporting myself to Ofsted. The standard of my maths homeschooling this morning was shocking

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I've been in education for 23 years and never seen a stand like this

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I've just had the call. I've refused entry. This is an interesting phone call. Doing this for everyone for our school staff everywhere! @Ofstednews @Headteacherchat #ShineOn #BurnBrighter

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10 months

You know what’s a false dream? That the graduate jobs market is a meritocracy and work inequalities are the fault of universities. Here are the facts 🧵

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This is not inexplicable - it’s called excellent teaching, skilled tutoring and outstanding student support in widening participation universities. There, mystery solved

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2 years

Michelle Donelan deserves credit for being the only Education Secretary of the last 12 years not to irrevocably damage the education sector

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3 years

Daughter’s teacher told the children that next week will all be about being friends again. I like that

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2 years

The result of this: if you’re poor and have no GCSEs, you will be unable to study at university. If you’re wealthy and have no GCSEs, no problem, study away and pay the fees yourself. At the same time as ‘levelling up’ and ‘social mobility’

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Ministers’ loan plans could stop poorer students in England going to university

Government to consult on making eligibility for finance dependent on strong exam grades

www.theguardian.com

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When I taught in London, I would lose count of how many black students were late because they had been stopped and searched. And I remember the impact on them, the trauma and upset that never left them. This is not the way

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Suella Braverman tells police to ramp up use of stop and search

UK home secretary says police have her full support in using tactic to prevent violence and save lives

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

It’s easy to deny the existence of institutional racism if you don’t record racism

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EXCL: Government rejects demand for schools to record racist incidents

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1 year

Accent is a big thing in universities. Mine is as working class southerner as it was growing up. A prof once said to me he was surprised how well I write given how I talked. I responded that I was surprised he could talk given how he wrote

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Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert

Your subconscious sense of identity can influence how much your accent changes.

theconversation.com

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4 months

Never become a leader to lead. Become a leader to create change, to solve problems, to improve lives, to develop people, to create positive impact, to challenge inequalities, to fight against injustice, to upset the status quo. But never just to lead.

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9 months

Leaders, don’t model being the first one in and the last one out; model leaving at a reasonable hour to exercise, spend time with family, relax, think. Model not working at weekends. Model not checking emails on leave. Model rest. Model healthy relationships with work

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When I did my first degree, I worked loading HGVs in the evening to support myself. During breaks, I read the novels and poetry to be discussed in seminars, speed reading to get through them before the next lorry pulled in. In class, I dosed up on ibruprofen for the muscle aches.

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4 years

For those who cast doubt on systemic racism in education: this picture was in a 2017 psychology textbook written by teachers, published by an educational publisher, approved by an exam board and used within schools. It literally doesn’t get more systemic than that

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One of the reasons that universities are facing a crisis is because the sector has allowed the media and the government to frame higher education purely in terms of individual value - study is reduced to little more than higher earnings that benefit individual graduates. But

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I once had a boss who stopped talking to me as soon as I handed my notice in for a new job in another university. And I’m not exaggerating. I stopped being invited to key meetings, I was left out of emails, not consulted on strategic decisions. It was a bad ending. We will lose

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2 years

My birthday today. 15 year old me was a rebel, dreaming of a career in music. 48 year old me sometimes ignores referencing conventions when I submit an article. Never too old to rock n roll

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9 months

As we enter A level results week, can we make this the year that celebrities don’t post how they failed their exams yet still became multi-millionaires with a private yacht, 5 Lamborghinis and a palace?

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Prof Damien Page

5 months

When you have completely run out of ideas and ignore the voices of experts who give you the solution to the teacher recruitment and retention crisis

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2 years

The #REF2021 results are a reminder that, even with far less funding, far less resource and far fewer hours, academics within teaching-intensive universities are doing amazing research, research that has been judged at the same standard as elite universities

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1 year

There’s no need to panic about AI in universities. When it gets advanced enough, it’ll discover university committees and then spend so long in said committees discussing itself, you’ll never hear from it again

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4 months

In the last fortnight, I’ve chaired over 20 professorial interview panels where we’ve sent out the questions 72 hours in advance, just part of our inclusive recruitment policy @_BNUni and the interviews were better as a result. The responses were rich, reflective, rooted in

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3 years

Next week I’m going to contact every Dean/Director/Head of schools of education in the UK to invite them to a meeting to see how we might collaborate instead of compete and meet the challenges in the sector as a collective. 1/3

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Loudness is often celebrated in organisations. Volume is an expectation, a requirement, an appendage to power, a proxy for status, for expertise. For influence. How often do we celebrate quietness though? How regularly is the quiet work given prominence? When do we appreciate

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Excited to announce I’ve been appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing @wlv_uni - 7 schools, c10k students, two thirds first generation to HE, colleagues passionate about social change. It’s a perfect fit and it will be a privilege to lead it. 1/

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10 months

If you’re the white parent of a mixed race child, get this book. I’ve bought every hair-positive book I could find over the years but this is the one that we’ve learned most from, just great

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I read an article this week about employers avoiding hiring Gen Z because they are (and choose your cliche) lazy, unprofessional, want to work from home, are too sensitive and too easily offended, don’t put in long hours. And more. It’s garbage. I love young people, they give

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4 years

Heard there’s some concern about our ITE students being brainwashed by all that ‘lefty’ stuff like anti-racism, LGBTQ+ action and disability inclusion. It’s true, we include all of that in our curriculum. Thanks for the concern but our students are great: 1/6

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3 years

Homeschooling in the 70s and 80s would have consisted of watching Play School in the morning and the rest of the day keeping the B&H out of reach

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4 months

The worst leaders are afraid of talent. They fear having highly skilled people around, they fear they might be shown up or replaced or exposed and that fear drives the worst of recruitment decisions. Don’t fear talent, embrace it. Surround yourself with the exceptional, the

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9 months

While our thoughts are rightly with the students getting results today, they should also be with the teachers who will feel the joy of every top grade and the pain of every low grade, already planning how they can improve their practice from September. Teachers are remarkable

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1 year

When I taught in Lewisham, we took the class on a trip to Brighton. Driving through the country, one of them said they’d never seen a sheep in real life. School trips are more valuable than many realise and not always in obvious ways

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Cuts in school trips in England hitting children in poorer areas hardest, shows poll

Survey shows large cuts to outings, teaching assistants and GCSE and A-level choices, reflecting ‘decades of government underfunding’

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Leaders, be human. Bring your real self to work. Laugh. Admit mistakes. Let people know about your life outside of work. Be sad. Be happy. Be righteously angry. Let people know when things are tough. Admit when you don’t know the answer. Share stories. Talk about things other

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Too often we forget that education is emotional work. The butterflies when we teach a new class; the thrill of a new idea for research; the chemistry when we meet a new intellectual partner who makes us think differently; the dopamine rush when we have an original idea; the

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1 year

Many schools in the UK have a portion of their budget set aside for clothing and feeding their children. Instead of getting upset about drag queens reading stories, the length of girls’ skirts or children’s hairstyles, everyone should be upset about that

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Teachers are buying students food, school uniforms and period products, new poll reveals

Paying for resources has become ‘part and parcel of the job’ London teacher claims

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9 months

In England, the 6th largest economy in the world, thousands of children will be eager to return to school because it will be the first time they have eaten properly since July. We cannot let this become normalised

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8 months

To all teachers returning today, may your commute be short, your INSET worth attending and your ceilings intact

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6 months

Last week I spent an evening with other senior university leaders from working class backgrounds. Not working class now by most criteria but tied inextricably to those experiences. Leading in a sector still dominated by middle class narratives and norms. Leading having lived the

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1 year

Poverty is the primary cause of educational inequality - solve that first

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Pupils who used food banks in pandemic fared worse at GCSEs, study finds

Findings prompt concerns about long-term impact of cost-of-living crisis on poorer students’ life chances

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

In the university gym at the beginning of the academic year realising I have injuries older than some of these students

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8 months

Children whose physical and mental health needs are not being met are far less likely to attend school. If a government wants 100% attendance, start with a 100% focus on poverty

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Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children

Survey finds cost of living crisis has increased both number of children needing extra support and level of need

www.theguardian.com

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2 months

One thing we rarely talk about in education is guilt, despite its prevalence in the sector. The guilt of under-preparing teaching when stretched by multiple deadlines. The guilt of not writing. The guilt of not spending enough time with family because work. The guilt of thinking

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2 years

One day, someone in the DfE, surveying the wreckage of teacher education, will start to think, if only fleetingly, that the experts on the expert groups might not have been experts

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Prof Damien Page

9 months

What I can’t stand is the glee from some commentators that exams have rightly got harder, that more children will fail. Some perverse character-building logic that harm needs to be inflicted for their own good. These are children. Harm is never a good thing

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1 year

Ukrainian refugees in the UK to be given free train tickets to see Eurovision. Sudanese-born NHS doctors not being evacuated from a war zone. Spot the difference

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Newsnight learns at least 24 NHS doctors are amongst those trapped in Sudan - and have been told they aren’t eligible for evacuation on U.K. rescue flights. ⁦ @BBCJoeInwood ⁩ reports:

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2 years

Daughter is 9 today. I miss the days when she didn’t answer back…

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10 months

There is no phrase more damaging in education than 'that's how we've always done it'

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10 months

Californian children in foster care can now attend university for free. Imagine how transformational that would be for young people in the UK. Truly transformational

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Opinion: California Takes Refreshing Bold Step for its Foster Youth and Higher Education

Children who are a part of the foster care system in California are now eligible to attend college at public state universities for free.

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4 years

. @educationgovuk - can I ask what your definition of ‘victim narratives’ is please?

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Prof Damien Page

9 months

A woman was forcibly kissed without consent on global TV and gets sued. Little wonder women out of the public eye face such struggles when assaulted

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Spain football federation accuses player Jenni Hermoso of lying about kiss from its president Luis Rubiales and says it is taking legal action

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2 months

Accent is a big thing in education, particularly higher education, and this research highlights just how significant: 35% of students are self-conscious about their accent; 30% of students mocked or criticised for their accent. And then there is the workplace: 46% of employees

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Address poverty = raise educational and life outcomes. It’s a very simple equation

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‘Inexperienced managers often resort to micromanaging because they feel like they’re losing control of the work and don’t trust their employees to do it how they would’. A very simple but overlooked truth here about the difficulty of moving from being a talented individual

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3 months

50 today. From aimless, teenage dirtbag frequently threatened with expulsion, a rebel without a pause, to here has been a strange journey. University made the difference back then. And it’s still a privilege to see the transformational impact of higher education now, every day

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You know what’s not rare in universities? The nurses, teachers and social workers that graduate. The artists and the actors and the dancers. The engineers, the computer scientists, the historians. The students transforming the lives of their families. And the academics and

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3 years

For my southern brothers and sisters, this is actual snow. Northern snow.

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1 year

When you could focus on eliminating childhood poverty to massively improve educational outcomes but decide to create a new maths qualification instead

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Prof Damien Page

6 months

What if we reduced the length of all meetings by half? What if we stopped writing action plans? What if all reports had a one page limit? What if we stopped writing reports and papers altogether and agreed ways of working face to face, constructively, collaboratively, with trust?

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Prof Damien Page

2 years

Never underestimate the damage bad leadership can do. Or the monumental effort it takes to undo it

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5 months

Resilience is important. Resilience is essential. However, there are too many articles that frame stress in terms of building personal resilience while ignoring the culture and practices of the workplace that create stress in the first place. We need to start with the

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The best educators I’ve ever worked with were all curious. They were curious about theory, about practice, about people, about learning, about leadership. Curiosity is a wonderful thing. It can solve organisational dilemmas, create innovations, new ways of working and,

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The current spate of poverty nostalgia is jarring. I’ve been poor and it wasn’t edifying, it wasn’t character building, it wasn’t resilience inspiring; it was a constant grind and a constant anxiety that impacted every aspect of life. Nothing nostalgic about that

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Leadership is too often framed as constantly active, interventionist, busy. Good leadership knows when to do nothing, to not intervene, to get out of the way of people who are excellent and let them do what they do best. Inaction can be just as important as action

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Teachers: next time someone peddles the idea that educational success is primarily a matter of IQ, genetics, memorisation, resisting decolonisation etc remind them of the inequalities laid bare this week. And don’t buy their books

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If you are a parent who works in education, in jobs that are challenging, meaningful and absorbing, at some time you will probably have felt the anxiety around the impact of our work on our children: am I spending enough time on them? Am I fully present for them? Am I too

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BBC news: Boris Johnson is ‘not the resigning type’. Apart from resigning from monogamy. And parenthood. And the truth. And saving lives in the pandemic. And levelling up. And reducing child poverty. And treating asylum seekers humanely. And and and

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4 years

I still have London friends who asked why I moved to the north

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This year in the university sector, we need to remember the purpose of higher education. We need to research because new knowledge is valuable in and of itself and creates social impact, not because it contributes to the REF. We need to improve pedagogy because it transforms

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The sad fact is that, if you’re white and your partner is of colour, you need to be prepared to walk away from some family and friends. Just do it the first time there is racism - no second chances

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4 years

Repeating the word ‘robust’ does not make something robust. Education Secretary doesn’t seem to realise that

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Imagine 200 white, UK-born children going missing. Imagine the outcry. Imagine the people taking to the streets to demand action. Imagine the immediacy of political and police action. Then imagine it was the same for 200 asylum-seeking children. Wouldn’t that be a thing

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I’ve never had anyone suggest I shouldn’t use my ‘Dr’ title. Solidarity to the many, many female colleagues for whom this is routine - use it with pride

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22 years ago, I became a teacher. First lesson: Lewisham College, Access course, teaching Educating Rita. My hand shaking so much I had to put the text down. A painful self-awareness. The students noticed, I think, and were kind, encouraging, patient, while I found my stride.

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First day as Deputy Vice Chancellor ⁦ @_BNUni ⁩ . This is an amazing place, time to do amazing things

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Dostoevsky argued that a society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. I love Dostoevsky but I think he was wrong. A society should be judged by how it treats its libraries. In the UK, they have been decimated, more

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As a civic School of Education, we’re currently offering individual tuition on Foucault and Critical Race Theory to any minister who needs us. We read so you don’t have to

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In 2021, a school has legally won the right to give electric shocks to children with disabilities. Possibly the worst education story I have ever read

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School wins legal battle to electric shock children to ‘correct behaviour’

The Judge Rotenberg Center for children with disabilities can continue to use electric shocks on its students as US Food and Drug Administration ban is overturned

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This is designed to limit widening participation, to further position higher education as the preserve of the white, the wealthy, the young and the non-disabled, all those who are more able to get ‘graduate level’ outcomes. Engineered elitism

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Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees

Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say

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‘Strategy feels complex because academics, consultants, and other experts benefit from the perception it is complex’. One of the best articles I’ve read on strategy, an essential activity that is usually over-complex, performative and shallow. Strategy needs to be simplified into

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Joined @EducationLBU 5 years ago this week. Before I accepted the job, I was told the School was 2 years away from being closed. Instead, we’ve built a truly unique school full of the most fascinating, committed, rebellious, extraordinary people. Best 5 years of my career

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3 years

No, that was poor policy and austerity that did that

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The use of terms including "white privilege" may have contributed to the "neglect" of white working-class pupils in the education system, a Commons committee has found

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There’s a return of the idea that higher education should hurt, that it should cause discomfort or upset. It’s a ‘what doesn’t kill you…’ theory of learning where students will grow from distress. I don’t agree. Education should be joy and healing, not pain. Ever

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If you believe education is the delivery of content the. yeah, close the schools and get ChatGPT booted up. If you believe that teaching is a matter of instinct, intuition, insight, sensing, care, flair and empathy, then probably best to keep teachers

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AI likely to spell end of traditional school classroom, leading expert says

Exclusive: Prof Stuart Russell says technology could result in ‘fewer teachers being employed – possibly even none’

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9 months

Yet another example of the immutable link between disadvantage and lower educational outcomes. There can be no real social mobility without lifting children out of poverty

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Disadvantaged students to bear brunt of grade deflation, say experts

Social Mobility Foundation says it expects GCSE and A-level attainment gap based on income to grow this year

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Wedding anniversary coming up so been saving for something extravagant. Can’t wait to see her face when she sees the full tank of petrol

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If you want to understand the culture of an organisation, there are a number of steps you could take. You could send out a survey. You could hold focus groups. You could employ an expensive consultancy to do a ‘deep dive’. But to save some time and cash, if you want to *really*

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I was the first in my family to go to university and the focus of this is spot on. There is a value - a generational value - to university that is rarely discussed in the media. And while some may find it hard to comprehend, that value is about more than just money

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University can be daunting for many, especially for those who are the first in their family Our new survey on the #ValueofUni shows that 76% of first in family grads believe that going to university helped build their self confidence 👇

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You know what we express far too infrequently in organisations? Gratitude. And I don’t mean a perfunctory ‘thanks’. I mean proper, heartfelt, authentic gratitude. For a job well done. For valuable advice. For excellence. For support. For just being there for us. For achieving

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Universities need to become as radical as the right wing press claim we are. We need to be as woke as we accused of. We need to be as concerned about inequalities as the pejorative states. We need to be as rigorously inclusive as our critics argue. Then there would be change

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Let's be honest now: Gove was wrong; Nick Gibb was wrong. Conservative education policy of the last 12 years, applauded by so many, was wrong

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Poorer pupils ‘significantly behind’ in England and Wales

Attainment gaps in England and Wales have barely changed for a decade.

www.independent.co.uk

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