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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 44m

The opportunity to do something powerful, innovative and special with Ofsted was lost in “group think” and hubris. Now we have a mess of a framework that may possibly do harm.

I can see another car crash coming along with the curriculum rewrite… and another 10 years of gnashing of teeth.

DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 57m

We need those with skills in piloting materials/schemes and evaluating them robustly, using tried and tested research methods.

We need people who are deeply knowledgeable about education and deeply experienced- not those with a couple of years in the classroom and then 15 in a think tank….

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 59m

We need experts to do this- I mean those with deep subject knowledge (and qualifications), who have experience writing tried and tested curricula that works, who know how schools function and how school
Improvement works well. We need people with immense skill in examination design….

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1h

And no doubt the process will be cumbersome.

IMO they should be setting a unit, for 6-8 months, that people can be seconded to. With an open and transparent recruitment process, to assemble the best qualified and most experienced team in the country.

This way we can avoid ideological creep…

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1h

Nice to meet you too!

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1h

Ummmmm, the timescales for submitting are so tight, it makes me suspect that they already have some ideas of who/what will be doing the work- I’m afraid.

It is the same lack of transparency we have seen before. 🤷‍♀️

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Ruth Swailes @ruthswailes.bsky.social · 3h

The timescales on this are interesting. Not being funny, any decent consultant is likely to have little or no availability between now and the deadline. I have 3 days left available in 2026, I know I’m not the only one.

Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 9h

Exclusive, I think: DfE seeks consultants for £500-a-day work to rewrite England’s national curriculum
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/dfe-see...
But would-be drafters of detailed programmes of study warned: you must not use AI.

Education Uncovered | News| DfE seeks consultants for £500-a-day work to rewrite England’s national curriculum

Invitation to tender document also reveals that ministers expect much of the detailed programmes of study work on the curriculum to be completed by next summer. But the instruction to consultants is: ...

educationuncovered.co.uk

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1h

I totally agree with your pov.

And you have written it far more eloquently than I could. 😊

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1h

Great thread here

bsky.app/profile/thep...

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

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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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

Politicians. Stop restricting the potential exposure of young people to learning based on your own philistinism or misguided assumptions about what a ‘class’ of people can or can’t take & thus what ‘path’ they should be on. Let learning & creativity abound, science & arts alike. Stop being so stupid

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

And a reminder once more of the deep-seated commitment of Kemi Badenoch’s party to the glories of the English language…

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting thread below.

Totally agree. Besides which why can’t anyone who wants to go to uni? It’s managed in most other countries. Education at uni is about much more than the subject you are studying.

So sick of the vile ranking and categorising of people.

bsky.app/profile/samf...

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 3h

I had found an unaccompanied item

I duly applied the H-O-T protocol

It’s not Hidden
It is Obvious
It is most certainly Typical: typically tasty 🧡

*extra treatos for being so vigilant

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 4h

Am a bit surprised this has not generated more interest. Quite rare to see a DfE document setting out details of national curriculum development process, as it will happen after Prof Becky Francis's review and DfE response, expected next week.

Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 9h

Exclusive, I think: DfE seeks consultants for £500-a-day work to rewrite England’s national curriculum
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/dfe-see...
But would-be drafters of detailed programmes of study warned: you must not use AI.

Education Uncovered | News| DfE seeks consultants for £500-a-day work to rewrite England’s national curriculum

Invitation to tender document also reveals that ministers expect much of the detailed programmes of study work on the curriculum to be completed by next summer. But the instruction to consultants is: ...

educationuncovered.co.uk

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 4h

I paraphrase this all the time in class. Mostly it's "you're using all the correct letters/sounds/ numbers, but not necessarily in the right order." Normally class wide feedback.

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