Prof Carol Davenport
@thedrdav.bsky.social
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Spend my time thinking about crochet blankets, education, and children's career aspirations. Not necessarily in that order.
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Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?
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Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute
Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute
Jettisoning of ex-prince became unavoidable when king’s loyalty to his brother collided with task of keeping public on side
www.theguardian.com
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A new event for #WomenEd NE England!
A collab with the relaxed pedagogical grass roots movement BrewEd to offer twice the power and passion
Get this in your diary for all day Saturday March 7th 2026
womened.com/events/women...
A collab with the relaxed pedagogical grass roots movement BrewEd to offer twice the power and passion
Get this in your diary for all day Saturday March 7th 2026
womened.com/events/women...
#WomenEd North East England: BREWeD x WOMENeD
Spring 2026 will feature a huge WomenEd x BrewEd event in Wakefield on Saturday 7 March in the WX.
WomenEd are collaborating with the relaxed pedagogical
womened.com
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📣Researchers from our @nustem.bsky.social
outreach group are celebrating after winning a prestigious @instituteofphysics.bsky.social
award recognising their work with children and young people across the North East and beyond. 🥇
#STEM #outreach #NorthumbriaUniversity
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outreach group are celebrating after winning a prestigious @instituteofphysics.bsky.social
award recognising their work with children and young people across the North East and beyond. 🥇
#STEM #outreach #NorthumbriaUniversity
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Northumbria University STEM outreach project wins Institute of Physics award
Researchers from an outreach group at Northumbria University are celebrating after winning a prestigious 2025 Institute of Physics (IOP) award recognising their work with children and young people acr...
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Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
Name your equations.
Trust me, it's a game changer.
#iteachphysics
itsalearningcurve.education/on-the-benef...
Trust me, it's a game changer.
#iteachphysics
itsalearningcurve.education/on-the-benef...
On the Benefits of Naming Equations
I asked my students how they’d found the APC exam a few years ago and one student said: “It was fine. Question 1 was Billy squared and Question 3 was an easy Charlie”. What? Well,…
itsalearningcurve.education
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
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No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.
An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Continue reading...
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