Alison Milner
@alisonmilner.bsky.social
Researcher of teachers’ work and professionalism. Working in Denmark.
One of the biggest paradoxes in higher ed right now is the removal of 'education' (programmes, departmental and school names) from the very institutions which should encompass this phenomenon. It has been 'absorbed' into 'social science', 'culture', 'communication'. It does not stand for itself.
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
One of the biggest paradoxes in higher ed right now is the removal of 'education' (programmes, departmental and school names) from the very institutions which should encompass this phenomenon. It has been 'absorbed' into 'social science', 'culture', 'communication'. It does not stand for itself.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
How does the long-term reputational damage caused by letting down potential students fit with aims to ‘maintain status’ and ‘build resilience‘ through Future Nottingham?
#NotMyUoN
#NotMyUoN
There will only be more of this if the university is left unchecked.
Join us as we fight back against the short sighted choices of this university. Picket line on monday and 4 more weeks of strikes.
We will win this.
www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/comm...
Join us as we fight back against the short sighted choices of this university. Picket line on monday and 4 more weeks of strikes.
We will win this.
www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/comm...
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How does the long-term reputational damage caused by letting down potential students fit with aims to ‘maintain status’ and ‘build resilience‘ through Future Nottingham?
#NotMyUoN
#NotMyUoN
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solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
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Oh Dear Nottingham
This will make receiver ofMFL and Music teachers locally very difficult if not impossible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This will make receiver ofMFL and Music teachers locally very difficult if not impossible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Oh Dear Nottingham
This will make receiver ofMFL and Music teachers locally very difficult if not impossible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This will make receiver ofMFL and Music teachers locally very difficult if not impossible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁
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The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly
The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly
New Art Exchange believes it is first cultural institution in world to hand permanent leadership to the community
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly
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This highlights one thing. Manchester & Liverpool are thriving not because of cuts, but because of smart investment. Populist austerity politics don’t resonate here. You can’t budget your way to prosperity. But that doesn't fit the narrative does it?
You know what we want to look at...the ecomonic growth of Manchester. Liverpool going the same route (Being on the LCRCA we are following same playbook).
It involved INVESTING in housing, transport, culture, people
...and devolution.
manchestermill.co.uk/andrew-mcphi...
It involved INVESTING in housing, transport, culture, people
...and devolution.
manchestermill.co.uk/andrew-mcphi...
October 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This highlights one thing. Manchester & Liverpool are thriving not because of cuts, but because of smart investment. Populist austerity politics don’t resonate here. You can’t budget your way to prosperity. But that doesn't fit the narrative does it?
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GLOBAL: Unregulated AI threatens jobs, rights, equality, Global labour body, ITUC warns www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/unre...
Unregulated AI threatens jobs, rights, equality, Global labour body, ITUC warns
The International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, has raised alarm over the growing risks of unregulated artificial intelligence, AI, in the workplace, warning that the technology could deepen inequ...
www.vanguardngr.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
GLOBAL: Unregulated AI threatens jobs, rights, equality, Global labour body, ITUC warns www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/unre...
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Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Real life:
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Real life:
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‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school
‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school
With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school
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Just in case the unhidden debt isn't enough... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Students owe nearly £500m of ‘hidden debts’ to UK universities, figures reveal
FoI data shows 180,000 students and graduates have private debts to their institutions amid cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just in case the unhidden debt isn't enough... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I really appreciated having a human mentor as a trainee teacher. Because mentorship is not about telling you what you did well or less well according to a template. It is about encouraging you to ask questions of and reflect on your own practice to work out areas for development.
AI could be used to analyse recordings of lessons delivered by new teachers, to give feedback on what they are doing well and what could improve, as part of a National Institute of Teaching project
schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-could-ana...
schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-could-ana...
AI could analyse early career teachers' lessons under pilot
AI could be used to analyse recordings of lessons delivered by early career teachers, to give feedback on what they are doing well and what could improve
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I really appreciated having a human mentor as a trainee teacher. Because mentorship is not about telling you what you did well or less well according to a template. It is about encouraging you to ask questions of and reflect on your own practice to work out areas for development.
Used to work here. The teachers/students were great. The principal was a political civil servant (KD) at Regeringskansliet prior to promotion but still...When does a school need to discuss its future over dinner at the Prime Minister's home? Elitist BS lobbying even from not-for-profit free schools.
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Used to work here. The teachers/students were great. The principal was a political civil servant (KD) at Regeringskansliet prior to promotion but still...When does a school need to discuss its future over dinner at the Prime Minister's home? Elitist BS lobbying even from not-for-profit free schools.
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Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams
Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams
ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams
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Could AI help to cut reviewers' workloads? Or is it a 'sticking plaster' being used to mask serious problems in peer review?
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
AI in peer review: where to draw the line? - Research Professional News
As publishers seek “shared principles”, others warn AI could become “sticking plaster” for structural problems
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Could AI help to cut reviewers' workloads? Or is it a 'sticking plaster' being used to mask serious problems in peer review?
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
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Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.
Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school
Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...
Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...
'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up
Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.
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I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.
This tax will kill us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
This tax will kill us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy
The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas
www.standard.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.
This tax will kill us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
This tax will kill us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
With all media focus on the drone incursion in Denmark, a Danish children’s helpline has received calls from children and young people who are worried and finding it hard to sleep at night. A Red Barnet consultant has written advice on how to talk to children about it. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Sådan taler du med dit barn om droner og hybridangreb
Når nyhederne er fyldt med historier om droner og angreb, kan det skabe spørgsmål og bekymringer hos børn.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
With all media focus on the drone incursion in Denmark, a Danish children’s helpline has received calls from children and young people who are worried and finding it hard to sleep at night. A Red Barnet consultant has written advice on how to talk to children about it. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
My monograph is finally published online today. I am exhausted just thinking about it. Thanks to my former PhD supervisor Howard and to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social who got me over the line (eventually).
In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?
In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?
Great to see this published today. A critical comparative study of teacher professionalism in England and Sweden. Congrats @alisonmilner.bsky.social ! www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
Teacher Professionalism from the Margins: The Policies and Politics of Education Governance in England and Sweden
Teachers have a vital role in ensuring a quality education for all. However, education systems across the globe face growing teacher shortages. Without urg
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September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My monograph is finally published online today. I am exhausted just thinking about it. Thanks to my former PhD supervisor Howard and to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social who got me over the line (eventually).
In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?
In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?
Can you be a teacher if you cannot breathe for yourself? Great article forwarded by @ronnilaursen.bsky.social my research collaborator. William (below) argues, we need to create school systems based on the understanding that diversity is normal not the exception.
www.folkeskolen.dk/feature/kan-...
www.folkeskolen.dk/feature/kan-...
Kan man være lærer, når man ikke kan trække vejret selv?
At være lænket til en kørestol og en respirator ligner umiddelbart ikke opskriften på et liv som lærer. Men lærerstuderende William Korte viser elever, at der findes karrieremuligheder, selv om udford...
www.folkeskolen.dk
September 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Can you be a teacher if you cannot breathe for yourself? Great article forwarded by @ronnilaursen.bsky.social my research collaborator. William (below) argues, we need to create school systems based on the understanding that diversity is normal not the exception.
www.folkeskolen.dk/feature/kan-...
www.folkeskolen.dk/feature/kan-...
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🎧 In episode 9 of Talking Inclusion... with Geoff Barton, Stephen Kingdom from @dcpcampaign.bsky.social joins @mmulholland.bsky.social, arguing we’re asking the wrong question on SEND: it’s not about “fixing SEND” but the whole education system.
“Fixing SEND by fixing education” with Stephen Kingdom
Talking Inclusion… With Geoff Barton · Episode
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September 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎧 In episode 9 of Talking Inclusion... with Geoff Barton, Stephen Kingdom from @dcpcampaign.bsky.social joins @mmulholland.bsky.social, arguing we’re asking the wrong question on SEND: it’s not about “fixing SEND” but the whole education system.