Matt Lewis

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
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Ruthful

Fantastic

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Hoi An, Vietnam.
It's hot and I'd like to open the balcony door, but fear the displeasure of the hinge gods. #pareidolia

Chen Ke - Untitled (felt) - UCCA, Beijing

Forbidden city, Beijing

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

Looking at private school pupil numbers in the ISC census and they've fallen back to where they were in..... 2022. Not exactly the disaster many predicted....

She should take time to mullet over before making such pronouncements

One week is seven days so 1w=7d, right?

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added. “The contract, from my understanding, would die,” Pollard Young said in an interview. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

New Post: In memoriam: Professor Claire Callender OBE www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/18/i...

The chair of ATM’s General Council, Helen Madeley has written an update on the ‘five into one’ mathematics classroom facing association development.

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We need to talk about SEND. Miss Smith, my Year 3 teacher, gazed out of the window and sighed, drumming her fingers on the carton of cigarettes which sat openly on her desk. In 1982 teachers did not take kindly to unexpected …

This from @southgloshead.bsky.social is a good analysis of the key issues, but I’d add that our ambition needs to stretch beyond the provision of statutory services & into what quality of life we want for those who need something additional to succeed.

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Here are some of the biggest breakthroughs in math this year 🧵

Dozens of councils to be abolished under biggest reforms in 50 years

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Parents trapped in special needs tribunal backlog as disputes surge by 50% Waits of more than a year for hearings into councils’ failure to meet growing needs of Send children

Parents are having to wait more than a year for SEND tribunal hearings into ­inadequate provision for children with special educational needs after new cases surged by more than 50% in a year.

By me, for the Observer: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘National conversation’ on curriculum begins Professor Becky Francis has launched a call for evidence seeking views on the current curriculum and assessment system to help shape the future of education.

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I was surprised when i learnt that splitting data into 3 creates tertiles

Will flag here if and when. In a quant-y way it really does look that one either-or dimension is an oversimplification

Did a survey earlier this year and am hoping to publish on a question looking at just this either-or thinking, in maths ed. "trad-prog" was the one that got me going. Absolutist-fallibilist, instrumental-relational,...

Headline Ofsted grades scrapped 'with immediate effect' Schools will continue to be rated on four sub-judgments until new report cards come in next September

🗑️ Breaking: The government has scrapped single-phrase headline Ofsted grades for schools 'with immediate effect', ahead of a switch to new report cards next September

‘Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals Concern that NHS is not equipped to treat record numbers of cases as experts warn of ‘biggest societal issue of our time’

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“I had a panic attack when I dropped some food on the floor, worrying someone would have an allergic reaction. This kept me awake for days.”

The number of referrals for anxiety has doubled since the year before Covid, with 98,953 referrals made.

#SEND #EduSky

It's an exodus

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Similarly question marks at the end of a sentence change something the letters and words to it's left

Has set me off thinking about how words work. Started thinking it's strictly left to right, but not so - 'e' in 'rate' (say) has an effect to its left - changes the sound of the 'a' before we get to the e itself.

Might obscure what's going on? Certainly 'bigness' of numbers is confusing here - more digits or greater value?