Iain Jones
@iainj.bsky.social
Collaborative research by Centenary Commission on Adult Education & research circle on ‘Building community, democracy and dialogue’
#adulteducation #lifelonglearning #socialjustice
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It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
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Remember, remember, 5 November:
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
Remember, remember, 5 November: Media Revolution campaigns to take back power from the billionaires
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Remember, remember, 5 November:
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
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Exactly this:
Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Exactly this:
Join us at our next research circle on Friday 26 September
Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-iai...
Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-iai...
The Coal Beneath Our Feet, The Wind Above Our Heads | Dr Iain Jones
Centenary Commission on Adult Education
Research circle on fostering community, democracy and dialogue
2025 series: 'Culture is Ordinary': space and place for the arts in radical lifelong learning’
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September 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Join us at our next research circle on Friday 26 September
Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-iai...
Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-iai...
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🚨 Nigel Farage is in Birmingham today, where he'll be talking about Reform's plans to try to send torture survivors into the arms of their torturers.
So here's a new billboard to show who has come out to back his new plan.
📍near Reform’s party conference, Birmingham
So here's a new billboard to show who has come out to back his new plan.
📍near Reform’s party conference, Birmingham
September 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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It's a remarkable coincidence how many people on the same road seem to have had overnight access to box fresh flags, 10 foot ladders and the necessary equipment to attach them to lamp posts all at the same time, isn't it?
September 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It's a remarkable coincidence how many people on the same road seem to have had overnight access to box fresh flags, 10 foot ladders and the necessary equipment to attach them to lamp posts all at the same time, isn't it?
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The Trump administration withholds over $6 billion intended for education and community programs, impacting crucial resources like afterschool, summer programs, English language, and adult literacy.
Billions in grants for summer school, English instruction delayed during Trump administration review
The Trump administration withholds over $6 billion intended for education and community programs, impacting crucial resources like afterschool, summer programs, English language, and adult literacy.
apnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The Trump administration withholds over $6 billion intended for education and community programs, impacting crucial resources like afterschool, summer programs, English language, and adult literacy.
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The affected programs include:
- migrant education
- teachers and school leaders effectiveness training
- English language acquisition
- STEM education, college and career counseling, and other activities
- before/after/summer school programs
- Grants for adult education/literacy programs
- migrant education
- teachers and school leaders effectiveness training
- English language acquisition
- STEM education, college and career counseling, and other activities
- before/after/summer school programs
- Grants for adult education/literacy programs
Trump administration tells states it’s freezing $6.8 billion for K-12 school programs
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has put on hold $6.8 billion in federal funds for K-12 schools, according to an Education Department notice obtained by States Newsroom.The agency informed states...
www.newsfromthestates.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The affected programs include:
- migrant education
- teachers and school leaders effectiveness training
- English language acquisition
- STEM education, college and career counseling, and other activities
- before/after/summer school programs
- Grants for adult education/literacy programs
- migrant education
- teachers and school leaders effectiveness training
- English language acquisition
- STEM education, college and career counseling, and other activities
- before/after/summer school programs
- Grants for adult education/literacy programs
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Reporting live from the protest outside Parliament💥
Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare
Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare
July 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reporting live from the protest outside Parliament💥
Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare
Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare
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🚨DPOs Criticise Institutionalised Ignorance From Ableist State in Pandemic and Say Nothing Has Changed
'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Disabled People’s Organisations Criticise “Institutionalised
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨DPOs Criticise Institutionalised Ignorance From Ableist State in Pandemic and Say Nothing Has Changed
'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
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The Government's welfare bill concessions will create a two-tiered system.
In real terms:
Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.
In real terms:
Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Government's welfare bill concessions will create a two-tiered system.
In real terms:
Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.
In real terms:
Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.
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'Reducing funding for adult learners is “harming social outcomes, health and wellbeing, economic growth and individual opportunity”'
The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇
The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇
📉 Adult participation in further education has plummeted to levels not seen since the aftermath of the Second World War, research reveals
feweek.co.uk/adult-learne...
feweek.co.uk/adult-learne...
Adult learner numbers have bombed to post-war levels - L&W
Adult participation in further education has plummeted to levels not seen since the aftermath of the Second World War, research reveals.
feweek.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
'Reducing funding for adult learners is “harming social outcomes, health and wellbeing, economic growth and individual opportunity”'
The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇
The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇
Thanks @richardhull54.bsky.social Totally agree. Too little priority & too narrow a vision #AdultEducation #Lifelonglearning
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Who knew?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds
Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Who knew?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Good morning.
Please do support your local library.
Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery.
@manclibraries.bsky.social
@cmbclibraries.bsky.social
@librariesconnected.bsky.social
Please do support your local library.
Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery.
@manclibraries.bsky.social
@cmbclibraries.bsky.social
@librariesconnected.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Good morning.
Please do support your local library.
Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery.
@manclibraries.bsky.social
@cmbclibraries.bsky.social
@librariesconnected.bsky.social
Please do support your local library.
Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery.
@manclibraries.bsky.social
@cmbclibraries.bsky.social
@librariesconnected.bsky.social
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day— I started art lessons to improve my digital art, never expecting to fall in love with the brush. My first #oilpainting, March 2017, when I was almost 50. By Nov I was up to the "napkin drill." Then a year of still lifes, learning different materials/tools like palette knife.
December 3, 2024 at 9:43 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day— I started art lessons to improve my digital art, never expecting to fall in love with the brush. My first #oilpainting, March 2017, when I was almost 50. By Nov I was up to the "napkin drill." Then a year of still lifes, learning different materials/tools like palette knife.
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Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities.
I was delighted to contribute to
'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
I was delighted to contribute to
'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education
A new government is a moment of possibility. It provides an opportunity to turn the tide on years of austerity and the so-called 'reforms' of public services that have served only to cut costs and mak...
www.ucu.org.uk
September 26, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities.
I was delighted to contribute to
'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
I was delighted to contribute to
'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
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How important was the music to the classic era of Film Noir? For a look at the contribution of Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner, Raksin, Adolph Deutsch and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, join me and John Leman Riley / @lemanriley.bsky.social at Tipping My Fedora.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...
8. Music for Film Noir (1941-1959), with John Leman Riley
Podcast Episode · Tipping My Fedora · 27/11/2024 · 1h 5m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:43 AM
How important was the music to the classic era of Film Noir? For a look at the contribution of Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner, Raksin, Adolph Deutsch and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, join me and John Leman Riley / @lemanriley.bsky.social at Tipping My Fedora.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
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Another of your excellent articles outlines his social media presence compared to other parties bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/n...
From Russia With Likes: Nigel Farage Dominates Social Media During General Election – Boosted by Bots Stoking Racism
The Reform Party is hovering around 18% of the vote, yet Farage's and his party's Facebook posts generated six times more reactions and shares than either Labour or the Conservatives and their leaders
bylinetimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Another of your excellent articles outlines his social media presence compared to other parties bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/n...
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Today was fun. My current project with Centre Space Arts launched as part of the opening of the brilliant and HUGE new Furniture Mine @emmausnorthstaffs.bsky.social. Really good event with Terry Waite, Stoke's Lord Mayor and Stoke Community Choir. Well done all involved.
November 20, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Today was fun. My current project with Centre Space Arts launched as part of the opening of the brilliant and HUGE new Furniture Mine @emmausnorthstaffs.bsky.social. Really good event with Terry Waite, Stoke's Lord Mayor and Stoke Community Choir. Well done all involved.
Council funding to be redirected from England’s rich areas to most deprived👍
November 29, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Council funding to be redirected from England’s rich areas to most deprived👍