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JL Dutaut
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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
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🛡️ '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
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Not now, giant pulsating black hole!
⚫️💥 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...

🔭 🧪
April 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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👀 '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
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
April 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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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April 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Arrivederci, Ann. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out 👋
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
‘Rachel Reeves is making us move to Italy’
Ann Kaplan Mulholland and her husband are worth ‘half a billion’, but she says the changes to non-dom rules have left them with ‘no choice’
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April 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Tim is 100% correct about the Ofsted changes.
"A rompingly good read" <<< I will take that, thank you. Do judge for yourself by reading my @schoolsweek.bsky.social column - schoolsweek.co.uk/can-ofsted-l...
March 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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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.
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.
April 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Out-outstanding. Out-out-outstanding.

In fact, let’s call the middle grade just Standing. Then we can have outstanding and understanding.
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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/
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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🗞️ 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

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#tomorrowspaperstoday
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🗞️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
April 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Truss Maga-Trump

#niche #PokemonGo
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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
School payment provider Squid agrees to drop £10 refund fees. Here's what you need to know... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/03...
March 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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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.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Perfect 🤣🎯
March 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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
March 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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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

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March 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Another belter
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...
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM