Elizabeth Draper @draperel
@draperel.bsky.social
30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social
The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West
The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West
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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.
Wishing everyone peace and love during this festive season 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️❤️❤️❤️❤️💫
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wishing everyone peace and love during this festive season 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️❤️❤️❤️❤️💫
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Only six places left! If you’d like yo join us, be quick.
Our spring ‘writing with …’ course (this time: windows, beasts, Jack Gilbert, lost objects and much more - well three things more) has almost sold out: only a few tickets left for both weds and sat series ... www.northseapoets.com/courses
Courses | North Sea Poets
Want to learn creative poetry techniques from the best? Explore our upcoming courses.
www.northseapoets.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Only six places left! If you’d like yo join us, be quick.
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Pleased to have been part of this call for evidence, with others in EA #FE community. Good English as a specialist subject addressed as well as cross- college provision of essential literacy & oracy skills in ITE programmes for all. Dual professional role in FE needs more considered attention. ⬇️
The EA’s response to DfEs #FE #ITE call for evidence is here, to inform new statutory guidance for content & delivery of programmes -to build FE ITE curriculum in subject specific English & for literacy & oracy essential skills training for all #FE teachers.
englishassociation.ac.uk/the-english-...
englishassociation.ac.uk/the-english-...
englishassociation.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Pleased to have been part of this call for evidence, with others in EA #FE community. Good English as a specialist subject addressed as well as cross- college provision of essential literacy & oracy skills in ITE programmes for all. Dual professional role in FE needs more considered attention. ⬇️
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With the number of children living homeless in England at an historic high, new research shows 52% of teachers in England have worked with children living in temporary accommodation in the last year
schoolsweek.co.uk/52-of-teache...
schoolsweek.co.uk/52-of-teache...
52% of teachers report homeless children in their school
Pupils in temporary accommodation are missing school, arriving tired, and experiencing poor mental health
schoolsweek.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
With the number of children living homeless in England at an historic high, new research shows 52% of teachers in England have worked with children living in temporary accommodation in the last year
schoolsweek.co.uk/52-of-teache...
schoolsweek.co.uk/52-of-teache...
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“If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.”
RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
“If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.”
RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
UK asylum system delays and flaws found to be 'harming lives'
Refugee charities have said delays and inefficiencies can cause "uncertainty, ill-health and, too often, homelessness" for asylum seekers.
www.bigissue.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.”
RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
“If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.”
RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Please I’m begging be careful what you repost. Some good tips here. Assume anything online could be AI at this point. (Especially if it’s meant to evoke a strong emotion or reaction. yes this includes cute animal photos/videos).
🍌 Google's Nano Banana Pro is here, making spotting AI images even harder. We're at a point where anything you see online could be AI, which makes fact-checking your feed more essential than ever.
🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...
#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...
#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
Spotting AI images just got harder with Nano Banana Pro #AILiteracy
YouTube video by News Literacy Project
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December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Please I’m begging be careful what you repost. Some good tips here. Assume anything online could be AI at this point. (Especially if it’s meant to evoke a strong emotion or reaction. yes this includes cute animal photos/videos).
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Alan Milburn is calling for a ‘movement’ to address the lost generation of young people not earning or learning, according to @fenews.bsky.social as his investigation into the causes of record unemployment and inactivity among 16 to 24 year olds opens. www.fenews.co.uk/skills/alan-...
Alan Milburn's Investigation Into NEETs is launched | FE News
| Alan Milburn's Investigation Into NEETs is launched
www.fenews.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Alan Milburn is calling for a ‘movement’ to address the lost generation of young people not earning or learning, according to @fenews.bsky.social as his investigation into the causes of record unemployment and inactivity among 16 to 24 year olds opens. www.fenews.co.uk/skills/alan-...
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#PoemsAbout #Money drops Friday.
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#PoemsAbout #Money drops Friday.
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
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His latest book, which was published at the end of November, is the second in a series of short stories. ‘As The Sky With Stars - Tales From The North’ is set in Manchester, Lancashire and the northern hills, with Mike asking ‘what makes a story northern?’...
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
His latest book, which was published at the end of November, is the second in a series of short stories. ‘As The Sky With Stars - Tales From The North’ is set in Manchester, Lancashire and the northern hills, with Mike asking ‘what makes a story northern?’...
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Join us this Thursday for a special evening with poet and Portico member Mike Harding as he shares stories from his latest books as a fundraiser for Reuniting the Portico Library...
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join us this Thursday for a special evening with poet and Portico member Mike Harding as he shares stories from his latest books as a fundraiser for Reuniting the Portico Library...
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Open up the window for today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase advent calendar and you'll find the funny festive poem 'Just Doing my Job' by Clare Bevan ⚔️ ✨ 🎄 Enjoy the humour and see if you can bring out the comic punchline in your performance of this poem!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Open up the window for today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase advent calendar and you'll find the funny festive poem 'Just Doing my Job' by Clare Bevan ⚔️ ✨ 🎄 Enjoy the humour and see if you can bring out the comic punchline in your performance of this poem!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
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Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.
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Help shape our work 👋
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Help shape our work 👋
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
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Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...
Online Talk: Susan Allen Ford, Hester Mulso Chapone, Jane Austen, and Pride and Prejudice - Chawton House
Visit our digital living room for the fifth event for our Jane Austen Book Club, and the third Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture with Austen scholar Susan Allen Ford.
chawtonhouse.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...
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Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...
Unsettling Extinction
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinc…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...
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Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social
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We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
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We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks, targeting the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide buff.ly/5IFJ9hH
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
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"Reading is vast, like the sea, but you can dip into it anywhere and be refreshed. Reading takes you into other minds and makes them part of your own. Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. Reading is freedom. Now read on."
RIP, John Carey.
RIP, John Carey.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Reading is vast, like the sea, but you can dip into it anywhere and be refreshed. Reading takes you into other minds and makes them part of your own. Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. Reading is freedom. Now read on."
RIP, John Carey.
RIP, John Carey.
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This year was hard, but you chose welcome. When fear got louder, you showed up and turned care into action. You stood beside people rebuilding their lives. People like you are the much-needed hope in the road ahead. We keep going together. Share this and tell us what “welcome” means to you.
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This year was hard, but you chose welcome. When fear got louder, you showed up and turned care into action. You stood beside people rebuilding their lives. People like you are the much-needed hope in the road ahead. We keep going together. Share this and tell us what “welcome” means to you.
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NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5
December 30, 2024 at 7:21 AM
NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5