Ann Mroz
@annmroz.bsky.social
Former editor Tes, Times Higher Education, NED, trustee
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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Well this has certainly got people talking on here and on LinkedIn today!
The loss of teacher autonomy over the past decade threatens not only our pupils' education but also the future of the profession, warns @samgibbs.bsky.social
How we dumbed down teaching – and what we must do to fix it
Over the past decade, teaching has been pushed towards a prescriptive model that reduces intellectual curiosity and overlooks essential classroom engagement, argues Sam Gibbs
www.tes.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Well this has certainly got people talking on here and on LinkedIn today!
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Gates in an interview with the @financialtimes.com doesn’t hold back about Musk’s USAID cuts: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,”
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts
Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045
www.ft.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Gates in an interview with the @financialtimes.com doesn’t hold back about Musk’s USAID cuts: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,”
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
‘In 2011, I was a junior official working on SEND reforms, including introducing EHCPs. Because these included a health element, we had to present the idea to Department of Health officials. They laughed at us, and that meeting is seared into my memory’ schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-ehc...
How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded
The approach and the incentives that flow from it are ruinous. Here's what we should do instead
schoolsweek.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
‘In 2011, I was a junior official working on SEND reforms, including introducing EHCPs. Because these included a health element, we had to present the idea to Department of Health officials. They laughed at us, and that meeting is seared into my memory’ schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-ehc...
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ONS confirms our exclusive story that Ian Diamond has resigned as head of the national statistics body! It came after mounting pressures over the ONS's handling of a collapse in response rates to key household surveys. It had made its unemployment and employment figures useless
May 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
ONS confirms our exclusive story that Ian Diamond has resigned as head of the national statistics body! It came after mounting pressures over the ONS's handling of a collapse in response rates to key household surveys. It had made its unemployment and employment figures useless
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Anyone who is interested in understanding the judgment the Supreme Court will be delivering today in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers will no doubt find @michaelpforan.bsky.social's excellent overview of the legal issues very useful. knowingius.org/p/sex-in-the...
Sex in the Supreme Court
A Brief Overview
knowingius.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Anyone who is interested in understanding the judgment the Supreme Court will be delivering today in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers will no doubt find @michaelpforan.bsky.social's excellent overview of the legal issues very useful. knowingius.org/p/sex-in-the...
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I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
April 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
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This is how we were. You see kids today and there’s a reserve in them that’s new.
April 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is how we were. You see kids today and there’s a reserve in them that’s new.
Adding to phone immediately
My favourite punctuation mark - and did you know you can add it to your phone to auto create, too‽
Interrobang [in-TER-uh-bang]
(n.)
- A punctuation mark combining the question mark and the exclamation point; the punctuational equivalent of W.T.F.
“In order to convey the verisimilar cognitive revulsion to the interlocution, an interrobang is not only congruent but is forsooth ineluctable.”
(n.)
- A punctuation mark combining the question mark and the exclamation point; the punctuational equivalent of W.T.F.
“In order to convey the verisimilar cognitive revulsion to the interlocution, an interrobang is not only congruent but is forsooth ineluctable.”
April 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Adding to phone immediately
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🚨NEW: There has been a big spike in schools using funding for disadvantaged pupils to plug budget holes.
Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵
Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵
April 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
🚨NEW: There has been a big spike in schools using funding for disadvantaged pupils to plug budget holes.
Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵
Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵
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Good advice for universities from Akua Reindorf KC www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/many...
Many UK universities’ trans inclusion policies contravene equality law
Recent cases brought by gender-critical employees show that going beyond the law can easily turn into stepping outside the law, says Akua Reindorf
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Good advice for universities from Akua Reindorf KC www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/many...
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The Observer editorial on @sullivan-review.bsky.social:
"A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Observer view on gender data: failure to accurately record biological sex harms us all | Observer editorial
A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Observer editorial on @sullivan-review.bsky.social:
"A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A few bits here are just bonkers.
Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion.
Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions.
Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion.
Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions.
NEW: The Guardian reports 'Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence' www.theguardian.com/educatio...
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence
Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A few bits here are just bonkers.
Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion.
Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions.
Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion.
Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions.
Bruce has been groomed and looks very handsome indeed
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Bruce has been groomed and looks very handsome indeed
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Fine tribute to John Prescott from Tony Blair institute.global/insights/new...
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fine tribute to John Prescott from Tony Blair institute.global/insights/new...
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Cuts to the AMSP programme for Further Maths. 2 approved Maths schools on pause. Maths courses being shut at universities around the country. It’s not been a great few days for an AI powerhouse……
Perhaps don’t make bold claims about becoming an AI powerhouse if you’re going to cut funding for mathematics education a few days later.
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
January 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Cuts to the AMSP programme for Further Maths. 2 approved Maths schools on pause. Maths courses being shut at universities around the country. It’s not been a great few days for an AI powerhouse……
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Exclusive: Academy trust which has generated income of more than £12m from phonics product starts “investigation into its tax status”
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
January 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Exclusive: Academy trust which has generated income of more than £12m from phonics product starts “investigation into its tax status”
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
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This is huge: a Russell Group uni making such severe cuts shows the extent of the crisis in HE funding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is huge: a Russell Group uni making such severe cuts shows the extent of the crisis in HE funding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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‘I agree that phones have no place in the classroom. It is entirely right that schools take firm action to stop their use, and I know that is what the vast majority of schools already do’: Bridget Phillipson rejects Tory plans to legislate against mobile phones
Phillipson dismisses Conservative call for school phone ban law
Education secretary calls the proposals a ‘headline-grabbing gimmick’
www.tes.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘I agree that phones have no place in the classroom. It is entirely right that schools take firm action to stop their use, and I know that is what the vast majority of schools already do’: Bridget Phillipson rejects Tory plans to legislate against mobile phones
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This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
‘Learn to code’
Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science
Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science
January 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
This is Bruce. He’s just had his coat brushed and is looking very handsome
January 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is Bruce. He’s just had his coat brushed and is looking very handsome
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Well look at that! 38 years ago!
Apparently, it may have been 38 years ago tonight that police raided the Royal Vauxhall Tavern wearing rubber gloves, prompting Lily Savage to observe “Well, well – it looks like we’ve got help with the washing up”
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Well look at that! 38 years ago!
So much wonderful, tasty cheese at the Courtyard Dairy in Settle
December 27, 2024 at 11:33 AM
So much wonderful, tasty cheese at the Courtyard Dairy in Settle
‘Just think what we could achieve if pupils had a seamless curriculum that taught them knowledge and skills in a carefully planned sequence, right through from 3-19’ www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
What if...our system was set up as all-through provision?
As part of our ‘What if...’ series, Claire Heald argues there would be multiple academic, pastoral and staffing benefits if the system was set up as an all-through model
www.tes.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:48 AM
‘Just think what we could achieve if pupils had a seamless curriculum that taught them knowledge and skills in a carefully planned sequence, right through from 3-19’ www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
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I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!
November 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!