Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social
#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at: https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/
Sadly most university Chancellors and successive Secretaries of State for Education have forgotten that the goal of education "is not just to acquire technical knowledge but to develop the capacity to 'learn how to learn.'" (UNESCO)
If there is nobody teaching or studying history we are condemned to never learning from the past.
I was there at the beginning. I and many others knew it was a car crash in slow motion, but too much government cash and prestige was at risk so they just bashed on with it. A tragedy. #AcademicSky #EduSky
Education, education… and bums on seats
A personal memoir of the Blair-era widening participation policy for higher education, that promised opportunity, but left a complex legacy
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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Few people understand that the UK university system is in crisis, but even fewer realise that many of the people losing their jobs are amongst the best in their fields
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Why is child care so expensive when our child care workers are paid so little?
Why is child care so expensive when our child care workers are paid so little?
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Happy Yorkshire Day everyone! Here’s a piece I wrote last year about my adoptive county…. and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ will be back on UK Channel 5 and US PBS over Christmas 2026. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenon
The stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and times
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Summer reading: the accidental invention of a time portal sets Fran, Jamie and Annamarie on a perilous journey across time, untangling ancestral mysteries that reveal how love, memory & family bonds endure across centuries, generations and continents #BookSky amzn.eu/d/04RPaa6k
Summer reading: while young eco-activist Dylan is apprenticed to an enigmatic time hopping AI posing as Merlin in the 6th century, his physicist uncle Jamie desperately searches for a colleague lost in time, unaware that they are being closely observed from the distant future. #BookSky
On Time for Eco: 2
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Summer reading: the accidental invention of a time portal sets Fran, Jamie and Annamarie on a perilous journey across time, untangling ancestral mysteries that reveal how love, memory & family bonds endure across centuries, generations and continents #BookSky amzn.eu/d/04RPaa6k
Happy Yorkshire Day everyone! Here’s a piece I wrote last year about my adoptive county…. and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ will be back on UK Channel 5 and US PBS over Christmas 2026. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenon
The stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and times
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Myths. Language. Division. Ask yourselves why? Who’s perpetuating & manipulating ALL of us. Those that want power. There is always good & evil. Always will be. But let’s remember the saying: The Power of the People is more Powerful than the People in Power. #KnowledgeIsPower #Pinks
Please watch & share this video about staying safe near open water. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @news.sky.com @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @drpam.bsky.social @thenewsagents.co.uk @westenglandbylines.co.uk @london.gov.uk youtu.be/zwzB7So7jSM?...
Water Safety Code Cartoon
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Great to be out on the River Thames in Bisham with local MP Josh Reynolds for a litter pick as part of Paddle UK’s Big Paddle Clean Up! It was fantastic to get on the water, meet local people, and help keep our beautiful rivers clean and healthy for everyone.
Summer reading: while young eco-activist Dylan is apprenticed to an enigmatic time hopping AI posing as Merlin in the 6th century, his physicist uncle Jamie desperately searches for a colleague lost in time, unaware that they are being closely observed from the distant future. #BookSky
On Time for Eco: 2
Buy On Time for Eco: 2 by Jarvis, Pam from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
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I think these lists are used mostly for cancellation & vexatiousness & I wish that @safety.bsky.app would get rid of them. I was put on a list called ‘Nazis’ about a year ago and have complained to @bsky.app several times, but never even got a reply. I suspect it’s a contravention of EU/UK GDPR.
Claire S (UK not USA)@csav55.eurosky.social · last wk.Blocked this twat who added me to a list called Time Leeches, he was very rude when he didn't like my perfectly polites response disagreeing with him.
Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
Learners are essentially making sense of passing experiences, some formalised in education, while others are episodic life experiences. @drpam.bsky.social Does this add anything? chrischiversthinks.weebly.com/blog-thinkin...
Experiential learning
Or understanding the wonderful world of stuff and the associated words. Pick up something in front of you. Have a close look at it. Do you know it’s naming word, noun? Describe it in terms of...
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@drpam.bsky.social a basic educational philosophy... front page of my blog. chrischiversthinks.weebly.com
@drpam.bsky.social how to "build" a teacher, personal attributes and professional reflection/analytical skills. chrischiversthinks.weebly.com/blog-thinkin...
Build a Teacher; Structuralist to holistic
Much of my working life is spent working alongside developing teachers, at different stages in their careers. In 2012, the Teacher Standards changed, from 33 statements to 8 headings. It still...
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This is true of the arts in general. Independent publishers are being squeezed out of the market; publishing giants entice authors to pay to publish their own writing, & to amend it to vanilla ‘house’ styles. AI is also beginning to replace people in writing, film and art. We need to be more aware.
A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...
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Human brains develop through rich social experiences, practical exploration, play, language, and emotionally supportive relationships, which build the neural architecture, executive function, self-regulation, curiosity, and confidence that prepare children for formal education. x.com/dr_pam_jarvi...
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So the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we treat children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaugh @LucyMPowell https://t.co/UjufbP1uO3
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Worth a second repost.
Pam Jarvis@drpam.bsky.social · last wk.So the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we have a state education system that treats children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaughmp.bsky.social @lucympowell.bsky.social #EduSky
A scientific validation of the ideas I have nurtured over very many years.
Pam Jarvis@drpam.bsky.social · last wk.So the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we have a state education system that treats children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaughmp.bsky.social @lucympowell.bsky.social #EduSky
So the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we have a state education system that treats children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaughmp.bsky.social @lucympowell.bsky.social #EduSky
Nurturing the brain: play, development and learning
Play is essential to healthy brain development and learning in early childhood. Human brains evolved to “boot” principally through social in...
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