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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 63 days ago • 443 comments

‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’ Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Meet the “sickfluencers”: disabled people turn to TikTok for help accessing disability benefits - and the media says they’re scroungers gaming the system. My col. on Fraser Nelson’s stitch up job, and the paranoia those with the least might get an advantage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 97 days ago • 20 comments

"When the expected standard is 54 marks out of 110 (as it was in 2024 KS2 Sats), it’s clear that we do not really have a mastery system." It's always baffled me how there has been a sustained national push towards a mastery approach, yet the assessment framework has remained woefully misaligned.

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

"The main thing TfL has done with its new names is to highlight the contribution to London’s life made by people who are not the Queen of England. Anyone who sees this as virtue signalling may, in fact, be signalling rather more about themselves."

submitted 103 days ago • 26 comments

‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

This argument but with an accurate list of the downsides. "Stopping the 2021-3 wave meant saying no to Ukrainians and Hong Kongers, the NHS and universities falling over, and continued high vacancy rates and inflation. But that's a price we should've paid" www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 103 days ago • 6 comments

Just taking a moment to think about how normal it is now for women to have a job that is talking, writing, or presenting on football. It was inconceivable not that long ago. There is much progress still to make, but I'm proud of all of them 💪⚽️

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

This is the thing we so rarely talk about: The role of NGOs, think tanks charities and pressure groups to improve political debate. Was crucial today, but all took place in the background.

submitted 104 days ago • 20 comments

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

submitted 113 days ago • 485 comments

Do they know it’s Africa, at all? Great piece by David Pilling on that song. www.ft.com/content/8292...

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

it’s actually very easy to give people earworms, or at least that’s what someBODY once told me

submitted 187 days ago • 14 comments

Cannot agree more. Seeing hospital letters with predominantly medical - and often worrying - words, but no explanation, can be so challenging.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Statutory reporting of use of reasonable force makes sense to me I'd also like to see some clear evidence collected on assaults on staff.

submitted 118 days ago • 3 comments

New post just out: "Dropping Out" Why improvements to school standards are at serious risk. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/d...

submitted 118 days ago • 27 comments

Ofsted working hard at writing their new framework. #exemplary

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 125 days ago • 2 comments

I think (i) the Conservative Party are *nuts* not to acknowledge that their coalition collapsed because they trashed trust in MPs (ii) Labour is nuts not to prioritise immediate action on this - both to continue attacking Con on their weakest point but also to preempt defend themselves

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting to see where people draw the line on this. When would you push the exclusion button? #edusky #edchat #teachers theteacherfilesexposed.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/t...

submitted 207 days ago • 2 comments