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Please read response below to GCSE resit 2025 situation. Not only but also curriculum approach. The resit world is rich with consequences of society’s shortcomings, society should respect this, policy makers should take note, funding priorities & infrastructure should definitely reflect this.

Great work by Guy and others, which mustn't go to waste. Please respond, however briefly, to this consultation, and help end the feudal tradition of secrecy and exclusion. Democracy dies in darkness.

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Do books have the power to change the world? Dr Annabel Sowemimo reflects on how books shaped her understanding of inequality in healthcare, and why long-form writing still matters in the age of AI.

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Have a read of this report by @jennyrichards.bsky.social on a groundbreaking workshop that took place earlier this year - take a look at the 5 action areas outlined … #humanities #stem #thinkingforwards #collaboration #connectivity #futurefacing www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/event-r...

📣Listen to the recording of this event! 📣 Including info on 8 week programme, collaborative work with international colleagues from Japan, Italy, France ,Wales, Poland-multimodal work with students in schools, colleges, HE- using Arthurian myths & legends! englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...

#Myths #Legends #Engagement #roundtables #quests what’s not to like? Have a listen for excellent ideas and resources for #teaching ⬇️⬇️⬇️🙌🙌🙌

This!The IAS teacher network welcomes both experienced practitioners & newcomers, offering opportunities to deepen subject knowledge,explore innovative teaching methods, & connect with educators & scholars worldwide who share an interest in Arthurian literature, culture, and myth. Sign up! Join in!

Pleased to have read @nicwilson.bsky.social Land Beneath the Waves - rich,poignant,inspiring. Personally,loved reading this from former English teacher become writer & naturalist. Love the focus on local landscape, wildlife & what it tells;of chronic illness ‘management’ & sanctuary to be found.🌻❤️👏🏽💫

This!The IAS teacher network welcomes both experienced practitioners & newcomers, offering opportunities to deepen subject knowledge,explore innovative teaching methods, & connect with educators & scholars worldwide who share an interest in Arthurian literature, culture, and myth. Sign up! Join in!

Walt Whitman, in a notebook, c. 1854, points to “earliest times“ when “every thing written at all was poetry . . . history, laws, religion, war, were all in the keeping of the poet.“ And concludes with a curiously modernist sense, the omnivorous need to appropriate the unpoetic:

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Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

English Association Monographs: English at the Interface explores innovative research and examines the intersections between English Studies and other languages, cultures, professions, disciplines and technologies from the medieval period to the present day. More here: bit.ly/4xmuf72

📣Over the coming weeks & months, we’ve a great range & variety of EVENTS! 📣 Useful, informative, enriching! #CPD Visit our 🌟website 🌟Many are FREE online, at ‘twilight’ times (16.45-17.30) to hopefully fit more with busy schedules. 😊 Come along! Invite colleagues! englishassociation.ac.uk/events/

🎉🎉🎉 Please do come along ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️💫💫💫⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🎂Our 120th birthday ! 🎂

Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday! Do come along if you're in the area. Details here: englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...

The Society's events programme resumes this month. Join us at 6pm on Friday 25 September for: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’, with Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes) bit.ly/4i0YEDS All welcome #Skystorians

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If you're looking for a book about how relationships with the natural world can help in dealing with intergenerational trauma, my memoir Land Beneath the Waves (one of BBC #Wildlife Magazine's Best Books of 2025) is on #Kindle special offer now! tinyurl.com/4xjj6x7j @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

Young people are almost always online, and also the age group most likely to describe themselves as lonely Read more in our latest report⤵️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

[Exit Queen.]

📢 We are hiring: Creative Manchester Graduate Intern 📅 Apply by 9pm, Sunday 6 September 👉 Full time, 12-month internship based in Manchester 📝 Apply here: https://ow.ly/nQGp50ZCiNV Applicants must be graduating from UoM in 2026 or be a 2025 graduate.

📣Hello all followers 📣, just a reminder to check out our many - and varied - upcoming webinar events! Please share far and wide ! ⬇️

Congratulations to all in their GCSE results 🥳 Wishing them luck 🍀 and success in their next steps. Huge applause 👏🏽👏🏽to all teachers 💫and support staff 💫without whom …

It's #GCSEresults day! And our analysis of the main trends is out. - Grades remain broadly stable - The gender gap in grading has fallen again - Entries are up in statistics, business studies and media studies - Retake entries are up but grades remain low ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2026/08/gcse...

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NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

I think it is challenging for sec school teachers- they are charged with “teaching reading” yet are not trained to do so. In fact, most teachers could easily adapt their teaching to easily support reading development… But they would probably have to let the daily ppts go

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Correlation is not causation. Also, it is fascinating that most of the people quoted have been involved in promoting the use of tech in schools in different ways. Secondary schools are run on tech- students spend their days looking at ppts.

When I work with student teachers on placement at our school, I ask what they've learnt so far about teaching reading. Quite often, they haven't covered anything (unless English trainees) and can't explain to me how they would use a disciplinary text to support reading. I find this surprising.

Reducing use of ppt and reading more authentic disciplinary text would support reading and writing development and help students to actively process the academic content. It should complement teacher explanation and modelling in most subjects. Teaching by ppt can oppose good literacy practice.

Have a listen ! Response to latest A-level data, including from our v own Lead for Cross-Sector Educational Policy: @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Have a listen to this ! ⬇️⬇️

The Haywain 2026

Our analysis of the 2026 Level 3 results is live now. Stable headline figures conceal a widening divide. Almost a third of entries in London were awarded an A or A*, compared with under a quarter in the North East and the East Midlands epi.org.uk/publications...

✅ T Level and other vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results are out today – here’s your FE Week rundown of key findings… feweek.co.uk/vtq-and-t-le...

Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...

Some of the headlines on #Alevelresults day are focused on the increase in top grades... but in England the increase in the proportion achieving an A*-A is just 0.1 percentage points compared to last year. vist.ly/5epe7

Restoring peatlands, planting trees, recovering wetlands and creating more resilient landscapes helps store carbon, reduce both drought and flood risk, and give wildlife the best chance of adapting to a changing world.

🧵 Wildfires have burned across the UK, drought has been declared across the whole of Wales and two-thirds of England, while rivers continue to run low...

The Prime Minister led an emergency Cobra meeting this week as the UK experiences more high temperatures, but the Government must put intentions into action before it’s too late.

Sign our petition to call for climate action here: buff.ly/IrLHG0f

🥳Congratulations!🥳 to all receiving their A-level results today! We wish them well, luck and happiness ahead 🤗 Big thanks and congratulations to all 💫teachers 💫out there, central as you all are to making this day happen - with all its successes and your continued support, as needed. 👏

Useful info on today’s results provided by @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/a-level-resu...

Useful article on results from @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/a-level-resu...