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Nuzhat Uthmani

@nuthmani.bsky.social

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Primary Teacher & Lecturer in Primary Education, Educators 4 Peace, EIS & Chair @wosdec Global Citizenship, Antiracist. Equalities. Education commentator. Founder @GCEducationScot. Ed D student focusing on Decolonising Education🌍 All views my own! 🎉

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 20d

For everything #equality #SocialJustice #GlobalCitizenship #Antiracism and #ScottishEducation, check out my linktr.ee/nuthmani

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Teacher,Trade Unionist,Antiracist,Global Citizen,Education writer & commentator

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 8h

The real issue we should never forget is the world allowed it all to happen and looked on. Stopping atrocities when they are happening, surely is what we should be striving for instead of always looking for justice after the fact. The lives list will never forgive us.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 1d

Disgraceful

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 9h

Yet not being acknowledged properly by govt, the public or our institutions.

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 10h

Well that is what it is I guess.

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure teachers have given many reasons repeatedly... But who cares what they say?

Look forward to what they find.

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University to study rise of violent behaviour in Scottish schools

More than 80% of schools experience violent and aggressive incidents on a weekly basis.

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 13h

Liar.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 22h

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Nga refugjat palestinez në fitues i Çmimit Nobel: Historia e jashtëzakonshme e jetës së Omar Yaghit

Kimisti Omar Yaghi i Universitetit të Kalifornisë (UC), Berkeley, është vlerësuar me Çmimin Nobel të Kimisë për vitin 2025, duke e ndarë atë me Richard Robson të Universitetit të Melburnit, Australi, ...

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Educators for Peace @educatorsforpeace.bsky.social · 22h

On today’s workplace day of action 9.10.25 and every day until a just and lasting peace is established, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians.

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 23h

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

"Education is emancipation"
Frederick Douglas

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BBC News - 'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK
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'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK

Sanaa el-Azab is one of 58 people who have been evacuated from Gaza to study at universities in the UK on scholarships.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

*supply

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

I was about to say, forget it, she's irrelevant, but then realised, we used to think that about Farage too... 😳

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

2/A big problem right now is the disgusting behaviour being modelled by adults in society is influencing how yiung people think and behave. I'm not sure if the SSTA survey asked specifically abt ASN. Maybe @mrdissent.bsky.social can clarify for us?

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

I think the article and the govts guidance last year was specifically focused on behaviour related to abuse, misogyny and racism for instance. Ot is understood that asn can mean issues can happen but this particular piece is not abt that, as clearly that need specific approaches. A big problem 1/

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

A teacher's strike in the run up to a parliamentary election is really not going to be a good luck for the SNP.

Henry Hepburn @henryhepburn.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @eisunion.bsky.social members to be balloted on strike action over ‘crippling’ workload, with union leaders insisting the Scottish government and councils have ‘dithered’ over a promise made in 2021 to cut class-contact time www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Scottish teachers in strike ballot over contact time ‘dithering’

EIS union says teachers are ‘continuing to toil under excessive workload burdens’ after a wait of more than four years for the government promise of reduced contact time to be delivered

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when Heseltine lost the Tory leadership contest to Major. I've never been a tory,but remember thinking how he seemed more impressive.I wonder how things would be different if we had had different leaders over the last 20 to 30 years. Too many PMs have dragged us backwards in recent times.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

I received an update today from Human Appeal through which I sponsor this wee boy in #Gaza. Thankfully he is alive and well along with hia siblings, 💚. Alhumdullilah. As well as they can be I guess.

If you are able, I'd highly recommend sponsoring through Human Appeal, they do a grand job.

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EIS @eisunion.bsky.social · 1d

The EIS is to move ahead with a statutory industrial action ballot over teacher workload, following a unanimous decision taken yesterday by a special meeting of the EIS Executive Committee.

www.eis.org.uk/latest-news/...

EIS to move Ahead with Statutory Industrial Action Ballot Over Workload

The EIS is to move ahead with a statutory industrial action ballot over teacher workload, following a unanimous decision taken yesterday by a special meeting of the EIS Executive Committee.

www.eis.org.uk

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

It's deliberate. Heaven forbid we educate people to think or ask questions.

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

The #Tory view is to make sure people only study for careers that earn money & taxes, not an education that encourages them to think or ask questions of the state for instance.

Ludicrous.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

88% of teachers surveyed by SSTA said the recent behaviour guidance from the govt has had no impact.

Damning report on state of behaviour in our schools.

I'd suggest underlying issues have not been acknowledged therefore the solution presented is not fit for purpose.

#ScotEduSky
#EduSky

Paul Cochrane @mrdissent.bsky.social · 1d

www.thetimes.com/article/b42a...

Schools are too soft on badly behaved pupils, teachers warn

The Scottish government’s action plan has set out steps towards improving behaviour in schools — but was not specific about punishments for unruly pupils

www.thetimes.com

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's derogatory to aupy teachers. 🙂He's much more out of his depth!

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WOSDEC @wosdec.bsky.social · 1d

Looking to explore this #BlackHistoryMonth's theme of "Standing Firm in Power and Pride" in the classroom?

Check out our resource which explores the life of Nelson Mandela and connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement, and links to modern day injustice.

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