Alison Milner

This highlights one thing. Manchester & Liverpool are thriving not because of cuts, but because of smart investment. Populist austerity politics don’t resonate here. You can’t budget your way to prosperity. But that doesn't fit the narrative does it?

Unregulated AI threatens jobs, rights, equality, Global labour body, ITUC warns The International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, has raised alarm over the growing risks of unregulated artificial intelligence, AI,  in the workplace, warning that the technology could deepen inequ...

GLOBAL: Unregulated AI threatens jobs, rights, equality, Global labour body, ITUC warns www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/unre...

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes

‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

Our university also stressed that we were not supposed to ’become’ our mentors. But develop our own sense of teacher self. How does robo-mentor support this? Ultimately it does not adress the issue of teacher time - for mentorship or even reflection on the AI ‘insights’.

Students owe nearly £500m of ‘hidden debts’ to UK universities, figures reveal FoI data shows 180,000 students and graduates have private debts to their institutions amid cost of living crisis

Just in case the unhidden debt isn't enough... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading: "NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK" Below this heading, the event details are listed: Date: Sat, Oct 18 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK) The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

I remember the importance of emotional support in those early weeks in school. I think the robo-mentor focus on good/bad would be anxiety inducing. My mentor Gwyneth also moved me from thinking about what I was doing to what the students were doing. That initial leap in consciousness.

I really appreciated having a human mentor as a trainee teacher. Because mentorship is not about telling you what you did well or less well according to a template. It is about encouraging you to ask questions of and reflect on your own practice to work out areas for development.

As I noted in my own post, the current principal was for a time a political civil servant (KD) at Regeringskansliet. Under Jan Björklund. So he went from teacher to vice-principal to civil servant to principal. Lovely guy. But the school and town are very embedded in religion and politics.

This is so depressing. Another Swedish dodgy free school employer to add to my list of dodgy Swedish free school employers.

Used to work here. The teachers/students were great. The principal was a political civil servant (KD) at Regeringskansliet prior to promotion but still...When does a school need to discuss its future over dinner at the Prime Minister's home? Elitist BS lobbying even from not-for-profit free schools.

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

AI in peer review: where to draw the line? - Research Professional News As publishers seek “shared principles”, others warn AI could become “sticking plaster” for structural problems

Could AI help to cut reviewers' workloads? Or is it a 'sticking plaster' being used to mask serious problems in peer review?

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

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Sådan taler du med dit barn om droner og hybridangreb Når nyhederne er fyldt med historier om droner og angreb, kan det skabe spørgsmål og bekymringer hos børn.

With all media focus on the drone incursion in Denmark, a Danish children’s helpline has received calls from children and young people who are worried and finding it hard to sleep at night. A Red Barnet consultant has written advice on how to talk to children about it. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

On another note, I heard that one school in the north is panicking about getting non-Swedish teachers certified in time and is giving them one day a week for Swedish lessons and moving them out of their specialism (to a subject where certification is not required yet) to accommodate this.

Bruncker still there too!? He was a so-called ‘super teacher’ in the English school system. Interestingly I worked in a gymnasium that took students from IES Eskilstuna. At that time there were massive issues with grade inflation - especially in math. With the gymnasium had to deal with.

My monograph is finally published online today. I am exhausted just thinking about it. Thanks to my former PhD supervisor Howard and to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social who got me over the line (eventually).

In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?

Kan man være lærer, når man ikke kan trække vejret selv? At være lænket til en kørestol og en respirator ligner umiddelbart ikke opskriften på et liv som lærer. Men lærerstuderende William Korte viser elever, at der findes karrieremuligheder, selv om udford...

Can you be a teacher if you cannot breathe for yourself? Great article forwarded by @ronnilaursen.bsky.social my research collaborator. William (below) argues, we need to create school systems based on the understanding that diversity is normal not the exception.

www.folkeskolen.dk/feature/kan-...

“Fixing SEND by fixing education” with Stephen Kingdom Talking Inclusion… With Geoff Barton · Episode

🎧 In episode 9 of Talking Inclusion... with Geoff Barton, Stephen Kingdom from @dcpcampaign.bsky.social joins @mmulholland.bsky.social, arguing we’re asking the wrong question on SEND: it’s not about “fixing SEND” but the whole education system.

✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿 Today and every day, we teach, we mobilise, and we organise for #democracy all around the 🌏

Happy #DemocracyDay!

@daveswords.bsky.social

Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50% Move comes despite election manifesto promises from Keir Starmer to improve ‘access to learning’ Prisons across England and Wales are set to slash frontline spending on education courses by up to 50%, despite promises from Keir Starmer to improve “access to learning” in last year’s general election manifesto. The budget for classroom courses at HMP Leicester will be cut by 46.5%, another men’s prison is cutting spending by 25%, while a women’s prison is cutting its provision in education by 26%, sources have confirmed. Continue reading...

Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50%

£3.4 million project to assess use of AI in doctoral research Aston and Leeds plan to create resources and training tools for students, supervisors and examiners

Scholars have been awarded £3.4 million to assess the value of publicly available artificial intelligence tools for PhD research in the UK

#AcademicSky #highered

Why are two UK universities merging into new ‘super-university’? The Universities of Greenwich, in London, and Kent have announced a formal tie up, which will make them one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK.

Why are two UK universities merging into new ‘super-university’?

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🚨 BREAKING: Over 14 million people faced hunger in the UK last year.

That’s 2.5 million MORE people, compared to 3 years ago.

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.

With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.

@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy

Education at a glance 2025: OECD data confirms teacher retention crisis | National Education Union

Unless government tackles workload, pay and funding, we’ll keep losing teachers faster than we can replace them.
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