Laura McInerney
@missmc.bsky.social
Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
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If you're over 65 and putting 20k a year into a cash ISA you can definitely afford to pay more tax.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you're over 65 and putting 20k a year into a cash ISA you can definitely afford to pay more tax.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
Was pondering the other day that if it’s the end of civilisation, and we’re burning library books to stay warm, what five books do you save?
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
#TOK #TheArts
www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
#TOK #TheArts
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
www.economist.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Was pondering the other day that if it’s the end of civilisation, and we’re burning library books to stay warm, what five books do you save?
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I read this as ‘no PE’ which I can get on board with!
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I read this as ‘no PE’ which I can get on board with!
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*rolls eyes*
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
Universities in England are receiving over £6 billion less each year for teaching students than they did a decade ago, new analysis shows. Helen Packer reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-teaching-income-ps64-billon-less-10-years-ago
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-teaching-income-ps64-billon-less-10-years-ago
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
*rolls eyes*
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
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ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
ChatGPT for high school teachers
Teachers from across the U.S. shared chats they use for lesson planning, research, and administrative tasks.
Tap a chat to get started.
chatgpt.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
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Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
I’m not sure how the government solves this, but my week has been an example of slow civic grind-down…
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’m not sure how the government solves this, but my week has been an example of slow civic grind-down…
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
A thing I don’t understand is how junior doctors can simultaneously be asking for more money *and* complaining there aren’t enough jobs for them all.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A thing I don’t understand is how junior doctors can simultaneously be asking for more money *and* complaining there aren’t enough jobs for them all.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
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❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
AI attendance reports suspended just days after launch
Government had said the reports would help bring attendance 'back to - and beyond - pre-pandemic levels'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
Wild times.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Wild times.
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales - BBC News
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…
dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
ALT: dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…
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As late as the 1960s, the Prime Minister’s driver used to always have to make sure he had four one penny coins in his pocket because if there was an alert of imminent Soviet nuclear attack when the PM was travelling, that was how the PM would dial Whitehall and coordinate the UKs response.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As late as the 1960s, the Prime Minister’s driver used to always have to make sure he had four one penny coins in his pocket because if there was an alert of imminent Soviet nuclear attack when the PM was travelling, that was how the PM would dial Whitehall and coordinate the UKs response.
I had totally forgotten that we used to text with numbers 😆
Me reading the manual for my first mobile phone:
"Short Messaging Service?
Type using the number keys?
Who the hell would use that?"
"Short Messaging Service?
Type using the number keys?
Who the hell would use that?"
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I had totally forgotten that we used to text with numbers 😆
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The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
My favourite is explaining pagers to children.
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My favourite is explaining pagers to children.
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
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Thanks so much again to the expert panel, including @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social @jo-annebaird.bsky.social and the others for their wisdom
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Thanks so much again to the expert panel, including @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social @jo-annebaird.bsky.social and the others for their wisdom
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🚨The curriculum review is out!
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
New curriculum to be introduced in 2028 as review published
Government commits to scrap the EBacc and make citizenship compulsory in primary schools
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🚨The curriculum review is out!
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
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Professor Becky Francis has published her final curriculum and assessment review report.
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
Q&A: Becky Francis on the big ideas in her curriculum review
Chair explains thinking behind year 8 tests, scrapping EBacc and triple science guarantee
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Professor Becky Francis has published her final curriculum and assessment review report.
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
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"A Year in Willerby" will go on sale in December for £20.
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"A Year in Willerby" will go on sale in December for £20.
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
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Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...