Dr Barry Black

The Oversight Board | Monitoring Scotland's promise The Oversight Board monitors whether Scotland is keeping its promise to children, young people, and families.

A really engaging day in Edinburgh for my first meeting as a member of the Promise Oversight Board, reflecting on previous reports, looking ahead to measuring progress in the next year, and hearing from the Chief Social Work Adviser.

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La Mesa in Paisley tonight with the tremendous @mrdissent.bsky.social 🍀

Grilling ☀️

They were absolutely tremendous, really nice and sweet

Garden to fork 🍴

It was a privilege to be able to review this book, and even though I am not a teacher, I learned so much from it. Kirsten is a phenomenal writer.

Absolutely get involved with the competition to get a freebie, but buy a copy for yourself, friends, and your department as well!

Let’s hope it stays that way!!

Thank you brother x

About to watch my niece, with @SkeneSquare, perform at the National Finals of the Glee Challenge at the marvellous Usher Hall.

Couldn’t be more proud. 🎉

About to watch my niece, with @SkeneSquare, perform at the National Finals of the Glee Challenge at the marvellous Usher Hall.

Couldn’t be more proud. 🎉

The Oversight Board | Monitoring Scotland's promise The Oversight Board monitors whether Scotland is keeping its promise to children, young people, and families.

A real honour to join the Promise Scotland Oversight Board.

I am excited to get started alongside so many esteemed colleagues.

An incredible pace of change is needed if we are to improve outcomes for those in care.

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Delighted that my PhD thesis ‘Chances or Choices: the influences on subject choices under the curriculum for excellence’ has been granted final approval, and I have a nice new title! 🎉

None of it possible without the unwavering support of Profs Keith Kintrea and Catherine Lido

Thank you Stuart! Appreciate it sir!

Thank you sir! 🐑

Hahaha that’s my favourite message of the day! Thanks Rob!

Thanks Nuzhat, I appreciate it! X

Delighted that my PhD thesis ‘Chances or Choices: the influences on subject choices under the curriculum for excellence’ has been granted final approval, and I have a nice new title! 🎉

None of it possible without the unwavering support of Profs Keith Kintrea and Catherine Lido

Looked-after children put on ‘drastic part-time timetables’ There has been a big rise in informal exclusions as schools try to ‘circumvent’ policies that make it harder to formally exclude care-experienced pupils, warns report

A perverse unintended, yet all too predictable, consequence of an obsession with improving the data while at school without a laser focus on improving outcomes which remain a national shame.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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This summer on Substack, I’ll be sharing findings from my PhD on how school subject choices are shaped by social background, aspirations, and curriculum structure.

Subscribe and share with anyone interested in education: barryb.uk

Sunday morning coming down ☀️😎

On Education | Barry Black | Substack 'On Education' is a substack focused on public and social policy in Scottish education. It explores the issues, stories, and data that shape the education landscape today, and how we can influence its...

Here if of interest! barryblack.substack.com

I appreciate that greatly

On Education | Barry Black | Substack 'On Education' is a substack focused on public and social policy in Scottish education. It explores the issues, stories, and data that shape the education landscape today, and how we can influence its...

Link: barryblack.substack.com

What a tremendous spot that is, thank you. I’m not sure how that happened!

Thanks, Stuart! Halfway through episode two as well and it is brilliant!

It was great to have @barryblackne.bsky.social as one of the first guests on the Talking Scottish Education podcast with @dnleslie.bsky.social #TalkScotEd It will be good to find out more about Barry's PhD findings and what influences pupil subject choices on his Substack.

This summer on Substack, I’ll be sharing findings from my PhD on how school subject choices are shaped by social background, aspirations, and curriculum structure.

Subscribe and share with anyone interested in education: barryb.uk

Real pleasure to be at Renfrewshire Council’s Equity Conference discussing ‘No Poverty of Aspiration’ today. 📚

Delis Make Glasgow

Talking Scottish Education Education Podcast · Welcome to Talking Scottish Education, where we go beyond the headlines and dive deep into the key issues shaping the future of education in Scotland. I’m Darren Leslie, and I’m jo...

The first two episodes of the Talking Scottish Education podcast with me and @dnleslie.bsky.social have been released. The guest so far have been @mrdegsy.bsky.social, @barryblackne.bsky.social and Andy Brown, National Maths Adviser. The usual platforms including podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t....