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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

4 years

So, we revealed today that the school tiers are going down the drain. And not a soul made it beyond Tier 1 (of 4). How did this happen? If you can bear to relive it with me, I'll attempt to piece it all together... (1/16)

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THREAD: Ok so I know I tweeted out one of our stories already but this @instituteforgov report is so utterly mental I reckon it deserves its own 12-part TV series. Unfortunately I can't find anyone willing to play Gav. So here's a thread instead... (stories via @tes ) (1/25)

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"The result was U-turn after U-turn, with pupils, parents and teachers left bewildered and floundering time and again." Will be pitching for the rights to the TV drama shortly. But in all seriousness, what a colossal mess. It'll take some doing to rebuild trust from here. (25/25)

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1 year

Hello - quick job update from me... After a year @PA , I'm delighted to be heading to @Telegraph to join their lobby team as a political correspondent! Will get cracking a week today. Any thoughts/tips/coffee invites always welcome ☕

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Not a peep from @educationgovuk all day. Meanwhile, @NEUnion has told teachers to work from home. Brighton & Hove council has written to primary heads advising them to move to remote learning next week. This is where we are with one day to go. Extraordinary times.

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🚨 NEW: There should be an "inquiry" into teachers infected with Covid because of a lack of emphasis from the government on transmission through poor ventilation, according to @bmj_latest editor-in-chief @fgodlee - me via @tes Read more 👇 (1/5)

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🔍 EXCLUSIVE: The DfE has assessed the amount of money it will save through a cut in school funding for the country's poorest pupils – but won't release the result because of a fear that doing so could "harm" its reputation - me via @tes More 👇 (1/8)

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1 year

Officially started @Telegraph today, which means I have a brand new email! Feel free to drop me a line: amy.gibbons @telegraph .co.uk 👋

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3 years

Remember when the DfE went to war with local councils? This deserves a whole episode of its own. Here's a window into the chaos if you need to refresh your memory: (15/25)

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@tweetsbyames

3 years

Have seen lots of questions flying about on this one. Does the DfE really expect kids who test positive to work with NHS T&T to identify their own close contacts? I mean, seriously?! I got in touch with @educationgovuk to set the record straight... (1/8)

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3 years

“Close contacts will still need to be identified and contacted, but from 19 July this responsibility will move from schools & colleges to NHS Test and Trace” Much as I welcome schools not doing this task, the obvious question is HOW? Rely on students saying who they were with?

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4 years

As for those rota plans? I'm not sure what to tell you. Wrapping paper, perhaps? (16/16)

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3 years

So yesterday – after months of asking – we finally learned the true cost of the govt's pupil premium "stealth cut". But this story is about so much more than the final figure. It's a tangled tale of DfE secrecy, furious backlash, and painful budget cuts... A thread 👇 (1/24)

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4 years

Has a savvy school librarian or English teacher snatched a golden opportunity to have a pop at the PM in front of the nation? - me via @tes

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3 years

The report says: "According to this insider, the prime minister's default is to bluff. To talk up things to such an extent that they will happen through the force of his own personality. Which is a very powerful tool. But the virus doesn't listen to those messages." (13/25)

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3 years

NEW: @GoodLawProject has said that education secretary @GavinWilliamson could be "in breach of the law" over the government's decision to continue fining medically vulnerable families for poor school attendance during the pandemic... - via @tes

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New from me and @tweetsbyames - the @GoodLawProject says attendance fines for parents could be unlawful:

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4 years

That brings us to today. After three months of confusion, enough to drive you to tiers (ha), @tes learns the DfE is scrapping the four-tiered school system. Remember those plans schools were asked to make back in August? Straight in the bin (13/16)

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3 years

Home sec asked by primary teacher why the definitions of key worker and vulnerable kids have been broadened. If the virus is more transmissible than before, shouldn't protections be as strong, if not stronger? Wish I could say she answered the question. #DowningStreetBriefing

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3 years

Hold the phone. So, don't make a Plan B because if you do so, it might... actually happen? Make Plan A the only option to avoid people taking "the easy way out"? But we were in a pandemic..! Surely there was no "easy way out"? (12/25)

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3 years

One DfE insider is quoted as saying: "My ministers absolutely hate local government. They hate it because far too much of it is Labour. They believe local government is stuffed full of progressives who do not believe in phonics... (18/25)

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That's the plan. But this is how I picture that going: NHS T&T: *Asks family for close contacts" Family: *Asks child who they've been hanging out with at school* Child: ???? Family: *Calls school* School: *Unofficially does all contact tracing on NHS T&T's behalf* (6/8)

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THREAD: Today we learned the govt has been told by SAGE to prepare for a "high prevalence" of Covid in schools by the end of Sept. Is this surprising? Not really. Except, perhaps, to those who claim things will be largely back to normal next term... (1/11)

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3 years

"...The role of local authorities in education is a very contested space, and the whole point of the academy programme is to get schools off councils. The idea that we would use local government to manage anything that we did not have to was complete anathema." Yikes. (19/25)

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The IfG says its "most important conclusion" – and that's saying something – is that the most "unforgiveable aspect of what happened" was the government's "refusal" to make contingency plans in the summer of 2020. (8/25)

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"A highly centralised approach to dealing with 24,000 schools. Tensions between No 10 and DfE. A refusal to trust local authorities and a failure to engage effectively with them, and their directors of public health... (23/25)

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"...in ways that might have allowed a more nuanced and better response. Dreadful communications. Repeated declarations that schools would open or close, or that exams would be held – despite the evident uncertainties – until reality struck... (24/25)

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3 years

Well, not in the room where it happens, according to the IfG. Today's report says he was not "directly involved" in any key meetings ahead of the mass school closures last March. (3/25)

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3 years

"Lessons were not learnt from the first lockdown, with the result that, for both school closures and exams, the story from July 2020 to January 2021 was a case of 'pause, rewind, repeat'," the report says. Devastating stuff. (9/25)

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8 months

👀 Sir John Curtice tells me: "If the rumours from the counts prove correct this is going to be one of the worst nights for a government in by-election history."

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3 years

Sidenote: The IfG suggests an aversion towards local government control was behind the DfE's decision to take charge of free school meals distribution – even though the "obvious" choice was to enlist councils' help. Double yikes. (20/25)

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@tweetsbyames

4 years

When it originally announced the four-tiered system for schools, the DfE said: "Local authority leaders and directors of public health, alongside national government, would be at the centre of any decision making." But govt has clearly had enough of local demands (14/16)

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3 years

Civil servants apparently received a "clear steer" from the PM "not to make contingency plans". "Schools were going to reopen. Exams would be held," the report says. (10/25)

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4 years

So that's it. When the new system comes into force, schools will be open to all or shut to all except vulnerable pupils and children of key workers. "On or off," I am told. "You're open or you're closed, that's it – end of." And local health chiefs are out of the picture (15/16)

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4 years

As we move through November, schools in Covid hotspots are getting desperate. Attendance in Hull drops to 65 per cent, with more than one in six teachers also off. And @tes learns that the DfE rejected heads' urgent calls to allow rotas (10/16)

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3 years

But that's not all. Let's pan out from the Gavin vs. Boris saga for a minute and turn to an example of one of the government's greatest strengths throughout the crisis: forward planning. I'm kidding. Don't come for me. (7/25)

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3 years

"Many difficulties were to arise from the government's handling of schools during the pandemic," the institute says. (22/25)

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3 years

Shall we take it in chronological order? Cool. Picture it: March 2020. I've just started Couch to 5k. Wait no, that's not it. Covid is happening. Schools are closing. The biggest moment of any education secretary's career, right? So... where is Gavin? (2/25)

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1 year

🚨 EXC: A former Labour MP and fierce ally of Jeremy Corbyn is being stripped of his Westminster pass until further notice over his links to Iranian state television (me via @Telegraph )

Jeremy Corbyn ally ‘stripped of parliamentary pass’ over role on Iranian state TV

Ex-MP Chris Williamson set to be suspended for ‘editorialising’ in favour of the rogue state on the banned PressTV

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3 years

TLDR: Cases were soaring ahead of the Christmas break; councils wanted schools to move online to minimise spread; DfE said no, get stuffed, etc. (16/25)

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While No 10 wanted all primary children back in the classroom before the end of term, the IfG says school leaders and unions warned against this because younger kids could not be expected to social distance. This view was apparently backed by the education secretary. (5/25)

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4 years

When another academy trust announces plans to close its 15 schools in the North West and West Yorkshire a week early for Christmas, it is forced into a U-turn by the DfE (12/16)

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3 years

However the institute's findings suggest Gavin was left out of the loop when the final call on the June return was made by Downing Street. "In [the] end, according to both No 10 and DfE sources, the decision was taken without Williamson present," the report says. (6/25)

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And it turns out this was a bit of a trend. Gavin was reportedly also overruled in the summer of 2020, when the government was debating how to reopen schools to more pupils. (4/25)

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4 years

This was: 🚨Tier 1: Face masks in secondary communal areas 🚨Tier 2: Secondaries on rota system 🚨Tier 3: Secondaries open only to vulnerable & key worker kids & some yr groups 🚨Tier 4: All settings open only to vulnerable & key worker kids, except AP and special schools (3/16)

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@tweetsbyames

4 years

But the problem is, this move is deeply confusing for schools. ASCL leader @RealGeoffBarton warns the two separate and unconnected tiered systems are "baffling" for them (6/16)

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4 years

Fast forward to October, and things have gone steeply downhill. The govt introduces a new local Covid alert system to "simplify" restrictions. It has three tiers: medium, high and very high. This is separate from the school system. The two don't interact, the DfE says (5/16)

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3 years

THREAD: Bit different this time. Some professional news from me 👇 After two years @tes , I'm excited to say I'm off to @PA next month to be a political reporter. Education really is a special patch full of brilliant people, and it's been a pleasure to cover. I'll miss it.

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3 years

It adds: "The view was that 'if you prepare for these things not happening, then the outcome is that they are far more likely not to happen…people will look for the easy way out and take it'." (11/25)

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4 years

And the DfE's claim that they don't interact doesn't actually make sense. @tes does some digging and finds areas given the Covid alert level of "high" or "very high" fall under Tier 1 of the school system. So these schools must make masks mandatory (7/16)

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3 years

Well, the report gives us fascinating insight into the strained relationship between central and local government, which helps us understand the strength of feeling behind the row. (17/25)

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4 years

Ok, so now we know which schools are in Tier 1. What about Tiers 2, 3 and 4? Schools have been asked to plan for rotas - under which circumstances will they become necessary? The DfE won't say, even as we enter lockdown #2 (8/16)

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4 years

The DfE also publishes specific guidance on how schools can plan for Tier 2 (rotas). This is important – they are TOLD to prepare: (4/16)

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4 years

With tensions mounting, education secretary @GavinWilliamson and health secretary @MattHancock write to local public health directors telling them they should not move schools on to rotas during the national lockdown (11/16)

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3 years

Well, on that bombshell, let's jump forward a couple months to the new academic year. Enter the Kent variant. Oh God. (14/25)

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🚨 NEW: There is a "very strange" lack of positive results coming from rapid Covid tests conducted in schools, an expert in biostatistics has warned - me via @tes Read more 👇 (1/6)

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3 years

Well, we've made it to the end of another jam-packed day for schools. There's been no let up in the news, so there's a huge amount to digest. I've done my best to sum up the headlines for you here 👇 - all via @tes (1/8)

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4 years

Despite mounting pressure from major education unions to allow them, the DfE says there are "no plans" to move schools on to rota systems (9/16)

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We say it every day but that doesn't make it any less true: life in the education world is bonkers at the moment, and it's tough to follow every twist and turn. Here's a summary of the headlines (aka your #dailyafterschoolnewsbriefing ) to bring you up to date - via @tes (1/11)

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Big @tes exclusive out tonight: Anyone with a degree and GCSE maths & English passes can apply to be a £19k-a-year mentor as ⁦ @TeachFirst ⁩ given £6m to act as sole recruiter - via ⁦ @JohnGRoberts ⁩ and me

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🚨 @GavinWilliamson statement on schools returning in January due after 3.30pm, with exact timing depending on earlier business including the Brexit debate, @educationgovuk says

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"For 3,500 secondary schools, 1,500 troops doing webinars probably isn't the government response that we were looking for," says @ASCL_UK leader @RealGeoffBarton - me via @tes

‘1.5K troops doing webinars’ not enough to help schools

Heads react to news that forces will offer coronavirus testing support ‘predominantly through webinars and individual meetings’

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3 years

Odds on the gingerbread house I am planning to build this afternoon having more structural integrity than any DfE policy this term

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3 years

So... how does the report conclude? I could paraphrase, but I don't think that would do justice to the real thing. (21/25)

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4 years

Picture it: 28 August 2020. Eat Out to Help Out is still a thing. Life is... well, it's not rock bottom. Meanwhile, @educationgovuk reveals its "worst-case scenario" plan for Covid spikes in the form of a four-tiered system for keeping schools open (2/16)

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DfE says “speculation” over grades is “unfair” on students… Do you know what else is unfair on students? Not making a contingency plan in the first place. Gah.

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Wait. Their family? Who didn't spend the week in the classroom with them, let alone have details of all the other kids they may have spent time with? (5/8)

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🚨 A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said reports that he is planning to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday in order to run again for Tory leader are completely untrue. (via @PA )

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So will they be calling up four- and five-year-olds who have spent the week in a busy Reception class to ask them who they have been in contact with over a nine-day period, within two metres, for 15 mins or more? (3/8)

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11 months

Thunderous applause could be heard from Room 2 as the one and only @christopherhope arrived for his final day in the @Telegraph lobby office 💔

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There is "insufficient emphasis" on classroom ventilation and mask-wearing in official guidance for keeping schools Covid-safe, scientists have warned - me via @tes

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Phew - another hugely busy day for the education world. But the @tes team are with you every step of the way. Here's the main headlines from today 👇 (1/9)

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Actual footage of the DfE this week

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THREAD: We need to talk about teacher training. Goodness knows we're used to unprecedented times by now. But people who have worked in the sector for decades are telling me things have never been this bad. Ever. And now the gloves are coming off. (1/20)

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3 years

Good morning to everyone except the people who called the police on us because we were forced to move home during the lockdown.

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Well, we did it folks. Another Monday done and dusted. Drowning in school news already? Same. But don't worry, because I've got a handy round up of the day's headlines for you here. So grab a cup of tea. It's your @tes #dailyafterschoolnewsbriefing 👇 (1/11)

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NEW: @NASUWT has said ministers should consider reintroducing the need for pupils to isolate after coming into close contact with Covid in the event of "rising case numbers" in England - me via @tes

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2 years

If this doesn’t reassure the markets, I don’t know what will

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3 years

The DfE also told me schools would be contacted by NHS T&T to offer advice if there was an outbreak of multiple cases, as with any other setting. But I have a funny feeling it won't only be calls about outbreaks that heads will be fielding come 19 July. Guess we'll see. (7/8)

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P.S. Huge credit to @ajjolley for all his hard work on this issue, and to @wesstreeting for pushing for answers through Parliament.

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Pause for thought: A week today, @RishiSunak will have doubled @trussliz 's tenure in No 10. That's 98 days to her 49. Or roughly two lettuces.

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If you want some more background on the changes from step four, check out our handy @tes guide here: (8/8)

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NEW: @TeachFirst is urging the government to cut teachers' timetables by one fifth in schools in the country's poorest areas to make more time for lesson planning and professional development - me via @tes

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Well, no. They're not quite that ambitious. They'll contact the child's family instead. (4/8)

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LONG READ: When pupils returned for the autumn term, @GavinWilliamson said it marked the point where "our focus can shift away from the disruption of Covid". But one month into the new academic year, what is really happening on the frontline? - me via @tes

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Do with that what you will. I'll leave you with this: the DfE's own estimate suggests that more than 60,000 disadvantaged pupils will lose out in 2021-22 as a result of the change. In this of all years, what does that say about how we value their education? (24/24)

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*An update from me* I’m delighted to say I will soon be moving to the big smoke to join the @tes team as a reporter - covering education news on a national scale. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported me during my time at the @EADT24 and @ipswichstar24 - I’ll miss you!

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The short answer is... sort of. The DfE told me that after schools cease contact tracing from 19 July, NHS T&T will take the wheel. It will be their job to work with positive cases to track down close contacts and ask them to isolate (or after 16 August, to take a test). (2/8)

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That enough to keep you going for one day? I know I'm knackered. Before we start all over again tomorrow, make sure to keep an eye on the @tes Twitter feed and website so you don't miss the latest updates. See you then. (8/8)

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THREAD: Today we revealed the DfE has no plans to replace Kevan Collins as Covid catch-up tsar - even as schools embark on a new year riddled with challenges. Just six months ago the PM said education was his "biggest priority". So... what happened? (1/23)

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DfE told that a lack of information on teacher illness and fatalities undermines claims that schools are safe - @JohnGRoberts via @tes

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As we know, schools never really closed. But when all children were finally able to walk through the gates again today, it must have been a special moment. Huge congrats on your first day back. Here's your #dailyafterschoolnewsbriefing - all via @tes (1/15)

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Before we delve into today's @tes headlines, I'd like to reflect on the sad news of the Duke of Edinburgh's passing. It's inspiring to think of all who have benefited from the award that bears his title. Here's your #dailyafterschoolnewsbriefing 👇 (1/12)

The Duke of Edinburgh: Why my award matters

Prince Philip, writing for Tes on 12 November 2004, on why the award that bears his title is so important

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🚨 NEW: Heads have reported that their pupils "can neither hear or see their remote lessons" due to issues with laptops provided by the government - me via @tes More here 👇 (1/4)

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🧵 Another day, another massive announcement for the world of education. Don't know where to start? No worries, @tes has you covered. Our exams guru @CathImogenLough has been working her socks off briefing the nation on today's news. Here's what you need to know... (1/11)

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I must say, this is pretty extraordinary... @GavinWilliamson accused @KateGreenSU of moaning and complaining after she asked him to quantify the cost of the controversial pupil premium change that will hit the country's poorest children - via @tes (1/3)

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1 year

🚨 EXC: MPs will be given a straightforward vote on the Privilege Committee's partygate report on Monday (Johnson's bday 🎈). Wording will be: “That this House approves the Fifth report from the Committee of Privileges.”

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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

3 years

Who else needs a lie down after that? And in all one day! Need to restock on caffeine for tomorrow. See you then. (9/9)

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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

3 years

NEW: @Ofstednews inspectors have rebelled against the watchdog's plan to send them into schools for monitoring inspections during this term's lockdown - @JohnGRoberts via @tes More below 👇 (1/4)

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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

4 years

Withholding data will "stoke fears that the government is trying to hide the true extent of transmission in schools", @NASUWT leader @PatrickR_NASUWT warns - exclusive from @Specktator100 via @tes

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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

3 years

📢 PROFESSIONAL NEWS (again): Very excited to say I have more news on the job front... I have been appointed political correspondent @PA ! Similar territory to my previous role (political reporter), but focused on day-to-day reporting for the media wire. I start Monday! ✍️

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Amy Gibbons

@tweetsbyames

3 years

Psychologists are warning that @GavinWilliamson 's focus on a "reward-punishment" approach to improving behaviour is a "house built on sand" - me via @tes Read more 👇 (1/3)

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