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04.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 19102 🔁 8078 💬 332 📌 306Really missing the primary education connections I had on Twitter. I can’t post on Twitter now and never really got going here but looking to reconnect with people as it was always such a great and valuable support. And it changed my career. So hi everyone #primaryrocks
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Just had a verbal warning for saying a lads haircut makes him look like Princess Diana. It's shit being a teacher. Fesshole GOLD from 19th December 2020
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"Over the past three years the government has diverted more than £53 million away from frontline teaching and resources to increase staffing and investment in its quango Oak.”
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New: Do DfE white paper proposals move England towards blanket academisation, or not? What an almighty mess educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/do-...
Analysis piece on the academy aspects of yesterday’s white paper.
Carrot, Sticks or Something Else?
Ian Gilbert reflects on what he's been finding out about motivation, behaviour and attendance from schools across the country.
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Carrot, Sticks or Something Else?
Ian Gilbert reflects on what he's been finding out about motivation, behaviour and attendance from schools across the country.
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19.02.2026 07:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bullet dodged!!
17.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0How dare you!!! 🤣
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23. Is that your best answer or your first answer?
32 questions to help move beyond the "guess what's in the teacher's head" game.
New on our blog this week
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I am from a country formerly colonised by the British, one famous for tea. I have found that the best way to annoy British people is to casually drop a teabag in a mug of cold water and stick it in the microwave. I don't even like tea. I do it just for the trolling entertainment.
28.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 540 🔁 21 💬 46 📌 4For years I knew what I was going to say as father of the bride at my daughter's wedding. It was poignant, funny and I knew she would love it. Then she ended up marrying someone I can't stand and I had to redo the whole thing. The speech is now for my younger daughter.
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30.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've been a stage hand for a while now. Every time I do a mic check I say something like "hey google, set an alarm for 3am". Serves them right for enabling a stupid feature with no secuirty.
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‘But Sir Iain said the out-of-work figures showed the consequences of an education system "obsessed" with university, which he said overlooked vocational training and a changing job market.’
Over 700,000 graduates out of work and claiming benefits, analysis suggests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After his visit to a Finnish school yesterday, here are Ian Gilbert’s Six Quick Things on Finnish education www.independentthinking.co.uk/resources/si...
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45 Outdoor Thunks - In memory of Juliet Robertson
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Robert Jenrick helpfully lists all the things he didn't do during his 10 years in government.
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