JL Dutaut
@dutaut.bsky.social
On the lookout for other people’s opinions about England’s schools and college. Try to keep my own to myself but not often successful. jl@schoolsweek.co.uk | 07597 054499 | https://schoolsweek.co.uk | https://feweek.co.uk | https://educationfest.co.uk
🛡️ 'In effect, the pledge would more than double the Conservatives’ annual spend on CPD' Ambition Institute's Marie Hamer on Labour's big teacher training pledge
The spending review must protect Labour’s CPD pledge
New analysis reveals the pledge to be a very generous one. It's imperative for the government's opportunity mission that it be maintained, writes Marie Hamer
schoolsweek.co.uk
Not now, giant pulsating black hole!
ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · last yr.⚫️💥 From boring to bursting - a giant black hole named Ansky has woken up with repetitive, extremely powerful X-ray bursts. Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪
👀 'At school they told us we wouldn’t amount to much, and at the youth club they told us our lives had purpose. I decided I was going to believe the church’s story” Don't miss our profile of Oasis founder, @stevechalke.bsky.social
Profile: Steve Chalke's life lessons on being mission-driven
Childhood poverty and racism drive the Oasis founder's 'passion to include people', learns JL Dutaut
schoolsweek.co.uk
I loved writing this. I could’ve written so much more about @stevechalke.bsky.social, who I found truly inspirational. “I’ve got to leave because I’ve got to set up a school and a hospital and a house.” Now that’s mission-driven! schoolsweek.co.uk/chalke-it-up...
Profile: Steve Chalke's life lessons on being mission-driven
Childhood poverty and racism drive the Oasis founder's 'passion to include people', learns JL Dutaut
schoolsweek.co.uk
Good morning 🌅 It’s Sunday which means it’s time for another #Edujobs #EduSky bulletin. If you’re looking for non-classroom education jobs, this next hour is my gift to you. Wave if you’re watching 👀 Share if I miss one 🙌🏼 Shout when you get one 📣
a looney tunes looking for a job poster with wile e coyote looking through binoculars
ALT: a looney tunes looking for a job poster with wile e coyote looking through binoculars
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Arrivederci, Ann. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out 👋
Paul Lewis@paullewismoney.bsky.social · last yr.The non-doms who came to the UK to save tax and love living here, are moving to Italy, which they don’t like and fear the food, because they don’t want to pay more tax on their global income bit.ly/4jcE7cK the UK they say will lose their lavish spending and investment
The Chinese get it (and it's aligned to their thinking I guess). Caving to Trump will only make you weaker when the next demand comes, and it will come. It's about dominance and power. The liberal rules based order (however flawed) is dead. Europe needs to recognize this and act accordingly.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last yr.China had been expecting the US to raise tariffs and is now stepping up its own in response, aiming for a “mutual destruction”, Yu Jie, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, tells the BBC.
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
theguardian.com
Out-outstanding. Out-out-outstanding. In fact, let’s call the middle grade just Standing. Then we can have outstanding and understanding.
So ends a battle that should never have had to have been fought. The story of this mine is one of fundamentally dishonest arguments supported by dishonest politicians, finally put to rest by heroic people who should never have had their time wasted on this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mining firm withdraws plan for UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years
Move ends bid for site near Whitehaven, Cumbria after planning permission was quashed by high court
theguardian.com
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
🗞️ Edition 390 done and dusted... @rosafurneaux.bsky.social reveals the huge amounts councils spend on private SEND schools with repeated failures @lydiach.bsky.social has the inside track on Ofsted's latest thinking about grading Subscribe schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to... #tomorrowspaperstoday
🗞️This week's FE Week front page: 16-19 capacity cash for Leeds and Manchester as classrooms elsewhere ‘bursting at the seams’ Subscribe | feweek.co.uk/subscribe/ #TomorrowsPapersToday
Schools in open fields. Children bullied, ridiculed and hit. Teachers already under police investigation. In a rare interview, Ofsted's illegal schools team spoke to me about the horrors they've witnessed and the taxpayer money funding some of their worst cases schoolsweek.co.uk/what-we-see-...
‘What we see are wasted lives’
A rare interview with Ofsted's illegal schools team
schoolsweek.co.uk
Great to hear school payment provider sQuid has dropped its £10 refund “fee”. Parents should get their money back before the new term… Thanks to those who tipped @schoolsweek.bsky.social to the story a few weeks ago, and the outlets that picked it up. Shining a light really makes a difference
Martin Lewis@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · last yr.School payment provider Squid agrees to drop £10 refund fees. Here's what you need to know... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/03...
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
nytimes.com
How to get MAT CEO pay under control - if ministers dare… schoolsweek.co.uk/the-solution...
Getting CEO pay under control just needs on bold minister
Here's how we can flatten the curve of inexorably rising trust exectuve salaries
schoolsweek.co.uk
I had a prostate examination. It wasn’t pleasant but it was quick and minor. The consultant talked about how many people my age haven’t had one and should. So I said I’d casually mention it in case it encourages others to. So I am. And also I’m posting it on Bluesky. Consider contacting your GP.
Edition 389, done and dusted ✂️ We reveal schools are bracing for staff cuts after spring statement snub, as DfE cost-cutters ramp up their advice 🔍 @rosafurneaux.bsky.social lands a rare interview with Ofsted’s illegal schools team Subscribe: schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to...
Another belter
Freddie Whittaker@fcdwhittaker.bsky.social · last yr.Edition 389, done and dusted ✂️ We reveal schools are bracing for staff cuts after spring statement snub, as DfE cost-cutters ramp up their advice 🔍 @rosafurneaux.bsky.social lands a rare interview with Ofsted’s illegal schools team Subscribe: schoolsweek.co.uk/subscribe-to...
It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
nbcchicago.com
This is 🔥 Workload appears to be quite literally out of control…
Schools Week@schoolsweek.bsky.social · last yr.🤖 'I am supposed to ensure my policies don’t add workload for my staff. Who is doing that for me at the DfE?'
The @theeef.bsky.social is looking for a small number of general FE & 6th form colleges to form an evidence partnership that will support colleges to access, understand, & apply research evidence for 16 to 19 teaching & learning. Find out more: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/networks/evi...
