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Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 55m

In Hebden Bridge there’s a little yarn library. Take what you want, leave something you don’t need. Ace!
🧶 #knit

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16h

In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist.

We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇

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Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate

In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12h

London is a global powerhouse for film 🎬

I’m delighted that the BFI London Film Festival is back until 19 October 2025. It’s the perfect opportunity to discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling.

BFI London Film Festival 2025 trailer

YouTube video by BFI

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 11h

🗨️ "The truth is that experience isn’t free...It costs more than anyone with a financial safety net will ever understand."

Read about the problems with the prominence of unpaid work in creative careers ⤵️

Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust

Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

www.suttontrust.com

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 16h

Nature’s clouds were gentle and free this day 📷🕊️ ….

Light gentle puffs of clouds over the distant mountains get a mirrored showing in the grass edged reservoir.

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 2h

Put people in lists and it isn’t a problem.

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Chris Hall @chris-hall.bsky.social · 11h

A favourite viewpoint for looking over Edinburgh; the view from Blackford Hill yesterday. The West Lomond hills can be seen across the Firth of Forth

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 14h

Great thread here

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 15h

1. A thread about the very serious young woman who told me off for allowing my learning disabled eight year old daughter to dance in front of the big screens at a modern art installation.

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 2h

A surprise 2 for me.

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 15h

🚧 'I talk to MAT CEOs, and what I hear a lot is ‘we might think about rebelling - do Progress 5 and put [other] qualifications back in'

@asdaneducation.bsky.social CEO, Melissa Farnham reveals some top-level, back-room dissatisfaction

We’ve made education comorbid. We’re killing it

JL Dutaut speaks with former looked-after child and current ASDAN CEO, Melissa Farnham about breaking down barriers to opportunity

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 15h

✈️ Exclusive: Two thirds of schools bidding for cash to send children on life-changing trips overseas were snubbed, sparking fears poorer youngsters are being sidelined from the Turing Scheme
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'Alarm' as two-thirds of schools' Turing Scheme bids snubbed

Ministers told to better support schools through foreign trips scheme as acceptance rate drops from 90% to 30%

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 17h

I naively expect pastors to teach the Christian message of love your neighbour.

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ninawawa.bsky.social @ninawawa.bsky.social · 1d

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Epstein's Elite Friends Are Way Sicker Than We Thought [Full Overview]

YouTube video by Channel 100 News with Evie

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Chris Leppard @ferretandbird.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be sure to let my wife know that her drama degree was a rip off and in no way led her to a successful career in West End theatre production or allowed her to then start her own drama & youth theatre production company, survive Covid, employ 3 people and teach hundreds of children…

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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odbof85 @odbof85.bsky.social · 1d

The Tories, and Badenoch in particular, still think that education for the masses should be no more than vocational training.
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Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 1d

I always get a bit worried if it is a favourite book. I prefer to see a film first and then read the book.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

Then you get a kind of domino effect where if one MAT uses these approaches their exclusion rates go up and other local schools which are under subscribed get more of the children with high level challenges. When the DfE wants to know why inclusion isn't happening I think this plays a big part.

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Lucy Whiffin @lucyw1982.bsky.social · 1d

It is sad because I see more and more engaged, curious children go to secondary school and start to hate school. I don't want to bash secondary schools. The staff and headteacher at our local secondary school are amazing- dedicated and thoughtful.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

It's very odd for me because I'm currently in early years where we focus heavily on encouraging and supporting children to develop self-regulation skills and to become independent learners. Something is going wrong (curriculum? accountability? Ofsted?) when this goes back not forwards over time. 3/3

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

There seems to have been a shift over the last 5-10 years to much more external control over behaviour in secondary, based on 'zero tolerance' type approaches pushed by high profile educators. So we have a split between a self-regulation/agency focus in primary and a control focus in secondary. 2/3

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

Because I work with both primary and secondary schools and their staff, I get to interact a lot with people working on the ground. From what I'm seeing and hearing, there's a significant gap opening up in the approach used in the different phases. This must be very confusing for young people. 1/3

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 1d

He really is a truly dreadful man.

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this comment on X and it was from a pastor - I had to read it 3 times to make sure I had it right! Later on he says the actions of ICE would make Jesus smile. American Christian Nationalists have nothing whatever to do with Christianity.

A pastor saying that God has to use the state to put communist clergy in their place.

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