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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

Higher education should be seen as public infrastructure that supports economic capacity, civic life and social mobility. The real challenge is system design, not ideology. 8/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

A national skills and education council could align strategy and end the cycle of short-term policy changes. 7/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

Universities could specialise: regional institutions in applied research and degree apprenticeships, research-intensive ones in global scholarship and innovation. 6/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

Funding should be stable and fair, with capped lifetime repayments, maintenance support and clear information on long-term outcomes. 5/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

A better approach would build one tertiary funding system that allows movement between higher and further education instead of setting them against each other. 4/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

The problem is not “low-value” courses. It is the separation of academic and vocational routes when both are needed for a modern economy. 3/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

Governments of all stripes have changed fees, funding and regulation, but few have created a joined-up framework linking universities, colleges and employers. 2/8

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 9m

The debate over higher education reform keeps circling back to debt, course quality and the balance between degrees and apprenticeships. The deeper issue is that the system remains fragmented. A thread.

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 51m

Well, the pigeons are back. Sparrowhawk obviously couldn’t deal with that many at once. They are quieter though.

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1h

I am amazed that they wouldn’t double check the information.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1h

This is brilliant! Burst their bubble of hate and bigotry with colour and humour.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

Look at its beady little eyes there.

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

Flogging is too good for them

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

DRAMATIC PIGEON UPDATE! Apparently a sparrowhawk has been spotted on a neighbour’s back garden birdcam and has taken out loads of pigeons today! Nature at work!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

fascinating blog post on what happens at predatory conferences

Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Some of them do happen, but if they do, they're not good. I found this really interesting blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2021/...

Learn from my mistakes! What I learned when I spoke at a predatory conference – BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

I love refreshment trolleys

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 We need to make theories of knowledge explicit, trust teachers more, allow learning to move at different rhythms, and broaden how we assess understanding. Curriculum isn’t a technical system to stabilise. It’s a civic project, about who we become through knowledge. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 1d

England’s 2025 Curriculum Review says it’s about reform, but it mostly protects what’s already there.
My new preprint names this pattern "epistemic settlement" when curriculum change looks progressive yet quietly keeps old hierarchies of knowledge in place. 1/2

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 2d

You can do all those things in Britain privately, off the NHS, and the full whack will probably cost you half of that. US healthcare is the biggest con job imaginable.

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · 2d

I think they must do. I have left messages for different companies to come and sort this out but to no avail.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 2d

This idea that 'a curriculum' consists of a line that children and young people move along without detours or deviations might make for a pretty 'curriculum journey' design for school walls (and for Ofsted) but imo it really doesn't capture the messy process that learning actually looks like. 1/2

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