Chris Hillidge
@chrishillidge.bsky.social
Director at The Challenge Academy Trust. NW England
Partnerships & collaboration. HE & Industry. Digital transformation and #AI #Research.
MBA 2023
Creator of Fablab Warrington #makerspace
#Science #STEM #Partnerships #EduSky
Partnerships & collaboration. HE & Industry. Digital transformation and #AI #Research.
MBA 2023
Creator of Fablab Warrington #makerspace
#Science #STEM #Partnerships #EduSky
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WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING UNTIL THIS HAPPENS.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING UNTIL THIS HAPPENS.
The lack of physics specialist teachers is a severe issue in schools serving disadvantaged communities.
We need to see a plan on addressing the shortage of Physics teachers before we can address the social equity of triple science being offered.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
We need to see a plan on addressing the shortage of Physics teachers before we can address the social equity of triple science being offered.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Triple science GCSE plan ‘ignores chronic teacher shortages’
Giving all GCSE students an entitlement to study triple science will force schools to make ‘compromises and substitutions’ without a major recruitment plan, warn subject experts
www.tes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The lack of physics specialist teachers is a severe issue in schools serving disadvantaged communities.
We need to see a plan on addressing the shortage of Physics teachers before we can address the social equity of triple science being offered.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
We need to see a plan on addressing the shortage of Physics teachers before we can address the social equity of triple science being offered.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I really wish we could shift the conversation to the positives that immigration brings to our country.
Healthcare would be just one industry that would collapse without it.
Healthcare would be just one industry that would collapse without it.
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I really wish we could shift the conversation to the positives that immigration brings to our country.
Healthcare would be just one industry that would collapse without it.
Healthcare would be just one industry that would collapse without it.
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“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
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NEW: We filed a brief in support of a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on academic freedom at Columbia University.
The First Amendment doesn't allow the president to force a university to censor its teaching, research, and faculty to align with his ideology.
The First Amendment doesn't allow the president to force a university to censor its teaching, research, and faculty to align with his ideology.
September 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW: We filed a brief in support of a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on academic freedom at Columbia University.
The First Amendment doesn't allow the president to force a university to censor its teaching, research, and faculty to align with his ideology.
The First Amendment doesn't allow the president to force a university to censor its teaching, research, and faculty to align with his ideology.
This has been the problem since 2010 unfortunately.
Also because it's easier to think of ways to win an election than it is to deal with any of the actual problems.
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This has been the problem since 2010 unfortunately.
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Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
![Screenshot from The Times which reads: "Zia Yusuf, Reform’s policy chief, said that his party’s changes would lead to “hundreds of thousands of people having to apply [for] and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK” on a staggered basis to prevent disruption to businesses.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Yusuf said: “Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits. Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgxwnqvs3th3ccizwb6hhbbh/bafkreic2a3wqrk5zo3x4sh5jkbxg2ifitokxhuvceau3q3cdzxj76mkprm@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
I wonder what sales of these look like this week?
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I wonder what sales of these look like this week?
Ready to move into the Carpathians as we meet our mountain guides.
July 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ready to move into the Carpathians as we meet our mountain guides.
From blue skies to torrential rain. TCAT students head into the mountains in Romania!
July 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
From blue skies to torrential rain. TCAT students head into the mountains in Romania!
A year down the line and England still doesn't have a comprehensive CPD offer for #science teachers.
#STEM teachers are harder to recruit, harder to retain and we know high quality, subject specific CPD helps.
So why is nothing happening?
#STEM teachers are harder to recruit, harder to retain and we know high quality, subject specific CPD helps.
So why is nothing happening?
We only recruited 30% of the Physics teachers we needed last year and we struggle to keep the ones we have in the profession.
Good CPD is shown to keep #STEM teachers in the job.
For a £2.7m saving, this just doesn't make sense.
schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-cost-...
Good CPD is shown to keep #STEM teachers in the job.
For a £2.7m saving, this just doesn't make sense.
schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-cost-...
Labour cost-cutting spree now hits STEM
DfE will cease funding for the Stimulating Physics Network when its contract ends in March
schoolsweek.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Pleased to announce that the TCAT bid for Turing funding was successful, and we will be taking 45 #STEM students to #SouthAfrica for #RealWorld experience of working in this incredible region. #Research and #Ethical #EcoTourism.
June 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Pleased to announce that the TCAT bid for Turing funding was successful, and we will be taking 45 #STEM students to #SouthAfrica for #RealWorld experience of working in this incredible region. #Research and #Ethical #EcoTourism.
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Thank you to Flooglebinder for an amazing weekend in West Wales. The coastal fieldwork session by @theislandgeogr.bsky.social was worth the long drive on its own - great ideas to integrate into our Watchet & Lyme Regis days. Also loved visiting www.thebugfarm.co.uk - delicious bug burgers!
March 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Thank you to Flooglebinder for an amazing weekend in West Wales. The coastal fieldwork session by @theislandgeogr.bsky.social was worth the long drive on its own - great ideas to integrate into our Watchet & Lyme Regis days. Also loved visiting www.thebugfarm.co.uk - delicious bug burgers!
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Flooglebinder, a certified B Corp student travel company is making waves in conservation education by curating educational programs that create change for people and the planet
🤿 👉 www.thescubanews.com/2024/07/31/i...
#Scuba #Diving #ScubaDiving #TSN #TheScubaNews
🤿 👉 www.thescubanews.com/2024/07/31/i...
#Scuba #Diving #ScubaDiving #TSN #TheScubaNews
May 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Flooglebinder, a certified B Corp student travel company is making waves in conservation education by curating educational programs that create change for people and the planet
🤿 👉 www.thescubanews.com/2024/07/31/i...
#Scuba #Diving #ScubaDiving #TSN #TheScubaNews
🤿 👉 www.thescubanews.com/2024/07/31/i...
#Scuba #Diving #ScubaDiving #TSN #TheScubaNews
We should be subsidising #STEM degrees
Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows
Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows
Student Loans Company figures show 10% jump in a year as individuals increase borrowing to meet cost of living
Students in England are finishing their degrees with government loans averaging £53,000, a jump of 10% in a year, as they increase their borrowing to meet the rising cost of living.
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has released figures showing individual loan balances were £5,000 higher in 2024-25 than a year earlier, when the average in England was £48,270. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We should be subsidising #STEM degrees
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
June 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
Beautiful day in Manchester at the business school for another session with Glasgow University focused on #Digital Citizenship. Great to be working with such talented people
June 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Beautiful day in Manchester at the business school for another session with Glasgow University focused on #Digital Citizenship. Great to be working with such talented people
Bit of perspective for a Tuesday morning 🤣
June 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Bit of perspective for a Tuesday morning 🤣
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“I was both stunned and elated to be recognised by such a highly regarded institution for the work I do.”
Your nomination could make a difference to someone like Stuart. Don’t miss the 2025 window: buff.ly/rZFrlW5 #ChemSky #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary
Your nomination could make a difference to someone like Stuart. Don’t miss the 2025 window: buff.ly/rZFrlW5 #ChemSky #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary
June 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I was both stunned and elated to be recognised by such a highly regarded institution for the work I do.”
Your nomination could make a difference to someone like Stuart. Don’t miss the 2025 window: buff.ly/rZFrlW5 #ChemSky #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary
Your nomination could make a difference to someone like Stuart. Don’t miss the 2025 window: buff.ly/rZFrlW5 #ChemSky #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary
Exploring a bit of the East Lothian coastline.
May 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Exploring a bit of the East Lothian coastline.
Sunshine in East Lothian!
May 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sunshine in East Lothian!