@beardyslo.bsky.social
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I was part of a group of almost 20 amazing researchers, educators and representation leads from right across the continent and between us, lead by the wonderful Dr Andrea Laczik and Dr Søren Kristensen, we got out 8 chapters covering a lot of important aspects of democracy and vocational education!
www.coe.int/en/web/educa...
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
www.coe.int
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I was part of a group of almost 20 amazing researchers, educators and representation leads from right across the continent and between us, lead by the wonderful Dr Andrea Laczik and Dr Søren Kristensen, we got out 8 chapters covering a lot of important aspects of democracy and vocational education!
www.coe.int/en/web/educa...
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
www.coe.int
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
www.coe.int/en/web/educa...
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
Good morning all you wonderful folks who like a bit of learner representation with a sprinkling of European flavour.
Come feast your eyes on what @simon.insanity.tube has written.
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While the Eagles came out short, I did enjoy how they countered Georgia in the 1st half
But, by far, the team that impressed me the most was Romania
After a dantesc July, they bounced back and played well against Canada
My report about yesterday's match-ups⬇️
www.rugbypass.com/news/georgia...
But, by far, the team that impressed me the most was Romania
After a dantesc July, they bounced back and played well against Canada
My report about yesterday's match-ups⬇️
www.rugbypass.com/news/georgia...
Georgia survive scare from Rugby World Cup hosts
While Spain faced Ireland A and Hong Kong China met the Brumbies; Romania, Canada, USA, Georgia, Portugal and Uruguay squared off...
www.rugbypass.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
While the Eagles came out short, I did enjoy how they countered Georgia in the 1st half
But, by far, the team that impressed me the most was Romania
After a dantesc July, they bounced back and played well against Canada
My report about yesterday's match-ups⬇️
www.rugbypass.com/news/georgia...
But, by far, the team that impressed me the most was Romania
After a dantesc July, they bounced back and played well against Canada
My report about yesterday's match-ups⬇️
www.rugbypass.com/news/georgia...
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🔍 DfE has finally set out how it will handle interventions on poorly performing apprenticeship training providers under the new Ofsted inspection regime, which begins next week
feweek.co.uk/dfe-sets-out...
feweek.co.uk/dfe-sets-out...
DfE sets out apprenticeship intervention rules for new Ofsted regime
Sanctions on poor-performing training providers will be considered on a case-by-case basis as Ofsted's new inspection regime beds in
feweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🔍 DfE has finally set out how it will handle interventions on poorly performing apprenticeship training providers under the new Ofsted inspection regime, which begins next week
feweek.co.uk/dfe-sets-out...
feweek.co.uk/dfe-sets-out...
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"The answer to this is to turn a weapon into a tool.... If every time we pick our phone up we will learn something, or connect with someone, or do something helpful, or to have a genuine belly laugh, or find something truly beautiful then it’s a tool."
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"The answer to this is to turn a weapon into a tool.... If every time we pick our phone up we will learn something, or connect with someone, or do something helpful, or to have a genuine belly laugh, or find something truly beautiful then it’s a tool."
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
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I am privileged enough to own my home and I would support a capital gains tax being introduced on it.
Such a tax doesn’t impact my immediate financial reality cause I am just planning to live here, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If for some reason I sold it, why shouldn’t I have to pay tax for getting luck money?
Such a tax doesn’t impact my immediate financial reality cause I am just planning to live here, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If for some reason I sold it, why shouldn’t I have to pay tax for getting luck money?
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I am privileged enough to own my home and I would support a capital gains tax being introduced on it.
Such a tax doesn’t impact my immediate financial reality cause I am just planning to live here, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If for some reason I sold it, why shouldn’t I have to pay tax for getting luck money?
Such a tax doesn’t impact my immediate financial reality cause I am just planning to live here, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If for some reason I sold it, why shouldn’t I have to pay tax for getting luck money?
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Does the post-16 white paper have the right answers, or even the right questions?
@nickhillman.bsky.social and I join @tom-richmond.com to chew over what it has to say on quality, collaboration and specialisation in the latest episode of Inside Your Ed
insideyoured.buzzsprout.com/1874905/epis...
@nickhillman.bsky.social and I join @tom-richmond.com to chew over what it has to say on quality, collaboration and specialisation in the latest episode of Inside Your Ed
insideyoured.buzzsprout.com/1874905/epis...
Does the Post 16 White Paper have the right answers, or even the right questions? - Inside Your Ed
It is entirely normal for a Government to announce plans to reform either Higher Education (HE) or Further Education (FE). What is much less normal is a Government announcing a plan to reform HE and F...
insideyoured.buzzsprout.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Does the post-16 white paper have the right answers, or even the right questions?
@nickhillman.bsky.social and I join @tom-richmond.com to chew over what it has to say on quality, collaboration and specialisation in the latest episode of Inside Your Ed
insideyoured.buzzsprout.com/1874905/epis...
@nickhillman.bsky.social and I join @tom-richmond.com to chew over what it has to say on quality, collaboration and specialisation in the latest episode of Inside Your Ed
insideyoured.buzzsprout.com/1874905/epis...
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⚠️ Government reforms to apprenticeship assessments risk allowing apprentices to qualify without proving they are fully competent, employers have warned feweek.co.uk/unqualified-...
Unqualified apprentices could pass under assessment reforms, employers warn
Construction leaders claim that plans for 'sampling' in apprenticeship assessment will lead to a 'race to the bottom'
feweek.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
⚠️ Government reforms to apprenticeship assessments risk allowing apprentices to qualify without proving they are fully competent, employers have warned feweek.co.uk/unqualified-...
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Of course, @feweek.bsky.social readers had a head start on V Levels
Here’s our story from a couple of weeks ago
feweek.co.uk/revealed-v-l...
Here’s our story from a couple of weeks ago
feweek.co.uk/revealed-v-l...
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Of course, @feweek.bsky.social readers had a head start on V Levels
Here’s our story from a couple of weeks ago
feweek.co.uk/revealed-v-l...
Here’s our story from a couple of weeks ago
feweek.co.uk/revealed-v-l...
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I see our pal big Davie has been at it again
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I see our pal big Davie has been at it again
As a trained youth worker i often feel like some victorian time traveller explaining a long lost job that no longer exists like Lamplighter.
Except youth work hasn't been made obsolete by technology. It was identified as a threat and aggressively defunded.
Except youth work hasn't been made obsolete by technology. It was identified as a threat and aggressively defunded.
The destruction of statutory youth services in the UK, particularly England, is criminal. (F the guardian and better late than never, but not much better). A biography🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
As a trained youth worker i often feel like some victorian time traveller explaining a long lost job that no longer exists like Lamplighter.
Except youth work hasn't been made obsolete by technology. It was identified as a threat and aggressively defunded.
Except youth work hasn't been made obsolete by technology. It was identified as a threat and aggressively defunded.
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BISH offers nuanced and inclusive info and advice on relationships, bodies, sex, gender and more! For £1 a month you’d be supporting Justin and his wonderful work!
I need your support to keep BISH going. I need 2000 (two thousand) people to join the Patreon at £1 a month. That would pay me to work on BISH for two days a week. I need a pay rise, can you help?
www.bishuk.com/support/
www.bishuk.com/support/
Support
Thousands of young people visit here everyday to get answers about sex and relationships. Be a part of BISH and help keep this vital resource free and available for everyone. Over the years I’ve had a...
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June 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
BISH offers nuanced and inclusive info and advice on relationships, bodies, sex, gender and more! For £1 a month you’d be supporting Justin and his wonderful work!
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Now would be a good time to point out:
- Colleges are full because no one planned for the demographic rise in 16-year-olds
- There are shortages of college teachers and apprenticeship trainers and assessors
*Amazing* to see the sector get the limelight in PM speech - but big decisions needed fast
- Colleges are full because no one planned for the demographic rise in 16-year-olds
- There are shortages of college teachers and apprenticeship trainers and assessors
*Amazing* to see the sector get the limelight in PM speech - but big decisions needed fast
September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Now would be a good time to point out:
- Colleges are full because no one planned for the demographic rise in 16-year-olds
- There are shortages of college teachers and apprenticeship trainers and assessors
*Amazing* to see the sector get the limelight in PM speech - but big decisions needed fast
- Colleges are full because no one planned for the demographic rise in 16-year-olds
- There are shortages of college teachers and apprenticeship trainers and assessors
*Amazing* to see the sector get the limelight in PM speech - but big decisions needed fast
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Completely agree with this. The article by @alicesoapbox.bsky.social is excellent and should serve as a warning to all interested in Scottish Women’s Rugby.
That our team have done so well is ‘in spite of’, not ‘because of’ the SRU’s actions.
Without positive change we will regress.
That our team have done so well is ‘in spite of’, not ‘because of’ the SRU’s actions.
Without positive change we will regress.
Great read. More so a warning than anything else, a lot of it eerily familiar, (success aside) and Julia Apu’ula's comments at the end are 100% spot on across the board, Ireland need to also take note.
And the Scots need to fire DN into the sun.
And the Scots need to fire DN into the sun.
This week is a rehash of the same column I have written for the last four years… which is the duration of time I have spent writing columns.
alicesoapbox.substack.com/p/the-worlds...
alicesoapbox.substack.com/p/the-worlds...
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Completely agree with this. The article by @alicesoapbox.bsky.social is excellent and should serve as a warning to all interested in Scottish Women’s Rugby.
That our team have done so well is ‘in spite of’, not ‘because of’ the SRU’s actions.
Without positive change we will regress.
That our team have done so well is ‘in spite of’, not ‘because of’ the SRU’s actions.
Without positive change we will regress.
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Ok that match was amazing, I don't think I'll ever get used to watching Canada live, it really is incredible.
(Also Canada were held up right in front of me and am sure the ball brushed the grass before the ref got round so I've decided both Scotland and Black Ferns lost to Canada by 6 tries to 3)
(Also Canada were held up right in front of me and am sure the ball brushed the grass before the ref got round so I've decided both Scotland and Black Ferns lost to Canada by 6 tries to 3)
September 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ok that match was amazing, I don't think I'll ever get used to watching Canada live, it really is incredible.
(Also Canada were held up right in front of me and am sure the ball brushed the grass before the ref got round so I've decided both Scotland and Black Ferns lost to Canada by 6 tries to 3)
(Also Canada were held up right in front of me and am sure the ball brushed the grass before the ref got round so I've decided both Scotland and Black Ferns lost to Canada by 6 tries to 3)
Watch it, listen to it. Digging into pro rugby underneath the shiny numbers.
The only way this could get any better is if Doc Malcolm personally delivered it. And she's busy being the best captain in rugby.
The only way this could get any better is if Doc Malcolm personally delivered it. And she's busy being the best captain in rugby.
This podcast is doing daft numbers and I LOVE IT!
If you haven't watched it yet, get your rugby education on all things Black Ferns from @alicesoapbox.bsky.social and listen as Alice and Chloe take a look back at the game in Brighton!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-C...
If you haven't watched it yet, get your rugby education on all things Black Ferns from @alicesoapbox.bsky.social and listen as Alice and Chloe take a look back at the game in Brighton!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-C...
Episode 15: Forty Love, What a Racket
YouTube video by MudderRucker
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Watch it, listen to it. Digging into pro rugby underneath the shiny numbers.
The only way this could get any better is if Doc Malcolm personally delivered it. And she's busy being the best captain in rugby.
The only way this could get any better is if Doc Malcolm personally delivered it. And she's busy being the best captain in rugby.
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Gerrih intaya Cinthia
This podcast is doing daft numbers and I LOVE IT!
If you haven't watched it yet, get your rugby education on all things Black Ferns from @alicesoapbox.bsky.social and listen as Alice and Chloe take a look back at the game in Brighton!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-C...
If you haven't watched it yet, get your rugby education on all things Black Ferns from @alicesoapbox.bsky.social and listen as Alice and Chloe take a look back at the game in Brighton!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-C...
Episode 15: Forty Love, What a Racket
YouTube video by MudderRucker
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Gerrih intaya Cinthia
Ok ladz get your ears around this.
Oh lordy, we've a hell of an episode dropping later today.
Want a Masters Degree in women's rugby in New Zealand, @alicesoapbox.bsky.social is your professor today!
It's a whopper, don't miss it.
Want a Masters Degree in women's rugby in New Zealand, @alicesoapbox.bsky.social is your professor today!
It's a whopper, don't miss it.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ok ladz get your ears around this.
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🆕 Two training providers owned by the same Swiss investment firm have suddenly ceased trading after the Department for Education terminated their apprenticeship contracts feweek.co.uk/pair-of-swis...
Pair of Swiss-owned training providers go bust
Thousands of apprentices affected as Woodspeen Training and Jarvis Training announce sudden closure
feweek.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🆕 Two training providers owned by the same Swiss investment firm have suddenly ceased trading after the Department for Education terminated their apprenticeship contracts feweek.co.uk/pair-of-swis...
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Yasmim Soares: Do you know her story? 🟡🟢
From being raised in the Cidade do Deus to moving to another state, the wing's life feels like a movie, but it isn't...
Learn more about her and how she made it big in the oval ball world
www.rugbypass.com/news/two-bag...
From being raised in the Cidade do Deus to moving to another state, the wing's life feels like a movie, but it isn't...
Learn more about her and how she made it big in the oval ball world
www.rugbypass.com/news/two-bag...
‘Two bags and a dream’: Yasmim Soares’ journey from Cidade de Deus
The Cidade de Deus, or City of God, for English speakers, was made famous on a global scale because of a movie with the same name.
www.rugbypass.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Yasmim Soares: Do you know her story? 🟡🟢
From being raised in the Cidade do Deus to moving to another state, the wing's life feels like a movie, but it isn't...
Learn more about her and how she made it big in the oval ball world
www.rugbypass.com/news/two-bag...
From being raised in the Cidade do Deus to moving to another state, the wing's life feels like a movie, but it isn't...
Learn more about her and how she made it big in the oval ball world
www.rugbypass.com/news/two-bag...
As ever Francisco is on the button. More countries playing more games please.
With the 2025 RWC pool stages concluded, I hope people go beyond the scorelines to understand growth, representation, making an impact and creating a more ambitious pathway
If you are still wrapped up in the "oh no, a beating looks bad" then read📖
www.rugbypass.com/news/celebra...
If you are still wrapped up in the "oh no, a beating looks bad" then read📖
www.rugbypass.com/news/celebra...
www.rugbypass.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
As ever Francisco is on the button. More countries playing more games please.
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Reports that skills will be moved out of DfE and into a new 'Growth Department' with DWP.
Could mean a return to a split post-16 ed brief, with 16-19 (and uni's) in one department and 19+ skills and apprenticeships in another
Could mean a return to a split post-16 ed brief, with 16-19 (and uni's) in one department and 19+ skills and apprenticeships in another
September 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reports that skills will be moved out of DfE and into a new 'Growth Department' with DWP.
Could mean a return to a split post-16 ed brief, with 16-19 (and uni's) in one department and 19+ skills and apprenticeships in another
Could mean a return to a split post-16 ed brief, with 16-19 (and uni's) in one department and 19+ skills and apprenticeships in another