Jackie Njoroge

Disadvantaged kids are more likely to have SEND needs but LESS likely to get support, leading to a DOUBLE DISADVANTAGE and much worse outcomes. Why? a 🧵

@suttontrust.bsky.social latest research

Started watching Riot Women, it’s really good.

Fir trees with sun rising and misty sky

Quiet start to the day

Pleased to be in Leeds for the launch of this report today. A Whole Provider Approach holds much promise for addressing equality gaps in higher education. Read our report (including recommendations) 'Making it everyone's business'

Absolutely

I'd like a list of UK universities that are on a ring road - by which I mean just off a main road that does not go directly to the centre of a city or town. It is for a thing.

UWE and Cardiff Met are two examples. Any more?

attn. @hbsj.bsky.social @mike-rat.bsky.social @registrarism.bsky.social

…..why isn’t there a single nhs ap for all appointments and communications….?

How’s Saturday going ? Harley has decided it’s best to have a relaxing day….

Every family needs an aunt that knits badly and I am here for the role….

Hopefully some kind of rudimentary scarf but it can be a little haphazard

…..have started the bad knitting early this year

Yep agree, it would seem slightly more straightforward

….. and let’s have lots of different parking aps….

We’ve extended eduroam to rural Kenya using satellite internet, working with Kenya Education Network (KENET) to bring secure connectivity to remote research sites.

Find out how the project came together 👇

Managed to change a kitchen tap today without creating any major leaks. Just needed a tip run to complete the day….

Collie cross dog in red harness sat on hillside

Harley dog out exploring

YouTube video by UKRI Stories Ocean buoys, microscopic plankton and speed boats | 101 Jobs that change the world S3 Ep 5

How many researchers begin in a totally different career?

Quite a few!

In this episode of 101 Jobs, we meet Mac: a former Royal Marine, now an ocean operations expert at @pml.ac.uk🌊

We want to show the public that even if your career doesn’t begin in science, it can still lead you there.

SHAPE Involve and Engage A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

A levels and acceptances, 2025 All the numbers and all the action from JCQ results day in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Clearing updates added here. It's been a busy 24 hours.

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ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms

A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a grand early C20 stone building stretching along a street, with pedestrians and cyclists. Printed at the foot of the card is "Wolverhampton The Technical College"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard showing @wlvuni.bsky.social

This is the Technical College which is one of the precursor institutions

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Accompanied middlest teenager to north london to begin her European travels, slightly odd to be walking past Woburn house not going in……

Are superstars as good when they move jobs? The AI-talent scramble raises an old question

A person’s performance is not just a matter of their own brilliance. It is often inseparable from the context—the relationships, culture, processes and tacit knowledge—that surrounds a star

Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

✍️ "I’ve started to realise that for many people like me, that door isn’t just closed. It’s bolted, and the only way through seems to be unpaid."

Working for free is only an option for a small number of people.

Unpaid internships need to end ⬇️

New Research Highlights the Power of Access Work — and the Tools We Need to Evaluate It  - HEPI It has never been more important for providers across the sector to show that access and participation activities have an impact. With resources stretched, we need to know the work we are doing is mak...

New @HEPI_news blog: Dr Anna Anthony (HEAT) on boosting local evaluation in higher ed.

The post introduces the HEEL – a sector-wide library of evaluation to help practitioners share learning & strengthen evidence-based practice.

Blog: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/25/n...

Black Labrador cross dog looking at the lake

Our teenagers were swimming in the lake, Harley was not impressed…..

Absolutely, this, see also dogs on extendable leads meeting ponies on rides out.

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a neo-classical building in Portland stone, stretching along one side of an empty road

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard showing the Gower Place wing of @ucl.ac.uk

This is the wing to the left of the famous portico, as you look from the gate at Gower Street

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Sounds perfect am currently sat with Harley listening to radio and reading before our teenagers emerge

Lovely day out yesterday