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Employers should ‘match graduate loan repayments’ to invest in HE Businesses reliant on highly skilled workers urged to ‘stop taking a back seat’ as UK universities suffer financially

Employers should match the tuition fee repayments their graduates pay and stop taking a “back seat” in the funding of higher education, a new report recommends. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
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Francis: 'EBacc may constrain choices and cut time for arts' Curriculum and assessment review chair outlines areas in 'need of further attention'

📉 The EBacc 'may constrain' pupils’ choices and 'limit access to' vocational and arts subjects, Professor Becky Francis has said as she outlined areas the curriculum and assessment review panel believe 'need further attention'

Leadership is about imagining the organisational future while managing the impact of the organisational past.

No reason? You could’ve been making me breakfast!

"It is very hard to change the world, but we can make our schools somewhere where everyone is welcome & make our little bit of it more welcoming. We can help all children feel good about themselves by celebrating differences & help them see that difference is not..." @popnolly.bsky.social 1/2

Make time to speak to every single member of staff

Professional Performance Monitoring: a middle path Creating an environment for professional flourishing: why deflating performance management systems and inflating CPD is the way forward.

Professional Performance Monitoring; a middle path.

Blog by Stuart Kime ✍️

Read it here 👇

Four ways the Francis review can succeed where others failed In the first instalment of our new series, Chirstine Counsell draws lessons from 35 years of attempted reform

My @schoolsweek.bsky.social piece on curriculum reviews. If we learn from 35 yrs of them, we might avoid the ever-recurring problems. But without strong subject-curricular training, espec for senior/system leaders, the finest rubric will still feed old distortions.
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Actionable feedback Great teachers give students actionable feedback to guide their learning. It is the collective responsibility of the teacher and student to ensure no feedback opportunity is wasted.

"Effective feedback is a powerful tool that teachers hold—actionable feedback hands that tool over to students to increase their own learning."

Kate Jones on actionable feedback 👇
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Shout-out to students who email teachers post results day to say thank you.

I’ve just got back from camping with two little ones. I can’t stand it but the joy and freedom experienced by my kids takes the edge off a bit.