@paulsceeny.bsky.social
Educationalist, especially adult #ESOL and #literacies. Former wee English fella, naturalised Derry wan. Co-Chair: #NATECLA Recent Interim: @nwmf.bsky.social Independent consultant: paulsceeny.com he/him
At least @rte.ie has enough moral fibre to stand firm on this.
Shame on @ebu.ch. #GenocideWashing and #ApartheidWashing ain’t entertainment. I certainly won’t be watching.
#BoycottEurovision
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Tweet from the Home Office announcing: "A new world-first offence will target anyone viewing, accessing or downloading information that could be useful in facilitating illegal small boat journeys to the UK. There's then a graphic with text that reads: Accessing information to support small boat crossings banned. We’re acting earlier to prevent Channel crossings before they are launched."
From the people that brought you:
- Let's arrest pensioners for 'terrorism' if they hold up signs.
- Let's leave people seeking sanctuary in limbo for decades.
The British government now presents:
- Let's make looking up dinghies on the Argos website an offence... 🥺
NEW. Another 5% drop in adults doing English & maths. Numbers ⬇️60% since 2011. Matters as 9m adults have low literacy or numeracy, limiting work & life chances. Current trends = 20+ years to fix. DfE attribute latest fall to removing English & maths reqs from apprenticeships, a backward step IMV
28.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Slide on screen at FALNI event with the text: "At a time when misinformation and intolerance are sweeping western societies, the importance of inclusive, accessible and community-based adult education has arguably never been greater. FALNI has played a vital role in attempting to shine a light upon our diverse and disparate sector, highlighting its impact to policymakers as well as providing a space for all who work in this sector to connect, share and network." Paul Sceeny, NATECLA Co-Chair and independent adult education consultant
FALNI pop-up stand in the main meeting room at NICVA with a testimonial slide from Stephen Evans in the background.
Paul wearing a NATECLA lanyard and standing in front of a FALNI banner
Celebrating 15 years 🎈🎉 of @forumadultlearning.bsky.social
Building the case for #AdultEducation across the north of Ireland.
When adults learn, the whole of society benefits.
#ESOL #AdultLiteracies #LifelongLearning #NATECLA #NICVA
The PSNI is facing fresh questions about consistency in policing, as Belfast and Derry prepare for Palestine Action protests on Saturday.
Since Palestine Action was banned, the PSNI has made three arrests and sent six files to the Public Prosecution Service.
www.thedetail.tv/articles/pal...
View of the pitch at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin
Day 2 at @aontas.com #AdultEducationSummit2025.
I’ll never tire of that view! 😃
#AONTASSummit #NEAAL
Looking forward to this…
19.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Tomorrow is the day. The AONTAS Adult Education Summit is finally here!
Attending the summit? Get prepared! Check out the workshops schedule in our official brochure and have a think about which ones you'll join.
See the full details here: shorturl.at/dhkEm
#NEAAL #AdultEducationSummit2025
Some thoughts on travelling to Edinburgh and Glasgow last week with the #HolywellTrust #ForwardThinking programme.
www.paulsceeny.com/post/thinkin...
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
15.11.2025 23:46 — 👍 1027 🔁 295 💬 22 📌 4
NATECLA pop-up stand in a corridor
NATECLA Scotland conference agenda and direction sign, stuck to a wall.
Title slide: Stepping Outside of Yourself: teacher wellbeing and emotion labour in the ESOL classroom.
Ready for the off! 😀
#NATECLAScotland conference getting underway at @uniwestscotland.bsky.social in Paisley.
Delighted Orsi Dunn is providing the keynote.
#NATECLAScot25 🏴 #ESOL #NATECLA #ConnectShareNetwork #ESOLCPD 💚💛
Picture of Michael D. Higgins
Go raibh míle maith agat a Mhícheál D. Ó hUiginn 👏👏
11.11.2025 08:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
10.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 5612 🔁 1657 💬 147 📌 73
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Any commentator who blathers on about right-of-centre politicians being ‘woke’ immediately forfeits the right to be taken seriously.
26.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tweet from Kathy Burke @KathyBurke: I love being 'woke'. It's much nicer than being an ignorant fucking twat. 09:37 • 13/03/2022
And asked if they *really* identify with the antonym.
25.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Catherine Connolly
Comhghairdeas lenár nUachtarán seo chugainn! 🎉🇮🇪
Congratulations to our next President! 🎉🇮🇪
Just disgusting. It’s rightly being widely condemned, but appalling we live in a climate where a gulpin like this can feel so empowered.
25.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally managed to pull my initial thoughts on the British govt's Post-16 Education and Skills White paper into a blog.
I'm not the first to vent about adults being just an afterthought and the continued framing of adult learning as solely about 'skills'.
www.paulsceeny.com/post/educati...
It’s so tiresome- being gaslit by the D4 establishment about ‘reconciliation’ being a prerequisite for reunification.
Miriam O’C parroting the nonsense talking point about the Irish language being ‘weaponised’ is a case in point.
A bitterly disappointing day for our city. Justice denied, again.
It’s small comfort that ****** at least got to see the inside of a courtroom (albeit behind a coward’s curtain) - unlike those who sent him here.
There is no British justice.
Bad day for the rule of law. The state can murder you in front of witness, cameras, frustrate justice for years, oversee destroying evidence and then put it 53 year later before a jury less trial to give themselves the green light about it all. And I have to pay my taxes to fund it
23.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 194 🔁 69 💬 2 📌 1T'was ever thus.
Though at least ****** got to see the inside of a courtroom (albeit behind a coward's curtain) - and has had to live with the possibility of being held to account for his actions.
Sadly, the same can't be said of those who sent him and his muckers to our city.
The UK media last week spent so much time banging on about a football match. Will they give the same amount of coverage to this ? I very much doubt it
19.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 137 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 0#EndIsraeliWarcrimes #EndIsraeliImpunity
19.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Unforced errors doesn’t even begin to cut it.
17.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If only Starmer had moved "at pace" to stop arming Isra-hell and enabing its genocide... 😬
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
I see the pro-genocide grievance factory is in full overdrive about a football match that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.
17.10.2025 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some thoughts about #AdultEducation across the island of Ireland: energy/momentum in the south; fragmentation/shoestrings in the north.
And with constitutional change coming, how to ensure adults aren't just an afterthought? #EducationPolicy #Think32 #BlogPost
www.paulsceeny.com/post/adult-l...
