Nick Kitchener-Bentley
@nkbentley.bsky.social
He/Him | Drama, English and Literacy Teacher | Lead Practitioner | IOE - UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society: Lecturer in English Education - Drama Specialist | Culture, Communication and Media doctoral student
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IOE academics weigh in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review, a 🧵
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
England’s curriculum review needs to be more radical | Letters
Letters: Dr Rupert Higham, Caroline Norbury and Colin Richards on recommendations in the Francis report
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
IOE academics weigh in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review, a 🧵
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Here is my latest publication in the academic journal Changing English: 'Making Our Own Story' - Promoting Student Agency Through a Narrator Role. It's all about celebrating learners’ agency, ideas and identities within the fiction! 🎉✨
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Making Our Own Story’ – Promoting Student Agency Through a Narrator Role
This piece of writing considers the ways in which the teacher adopting the process drama approach of a narrator role can promote student agency when co-constructing fictional work. Drawing upon tra...
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Here is my latest publication in the academic journal Changing English: 'Making Our Own Story' - Promoting Student Agency Through a Narrator Role. It's all about celebrating learners’ agency, ideas and identities within the fiction! 🎉✨
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On #TransDayofRemembrance we remember, mourn and honour all those who have tragically been lost to anti-trans violence.
Find out how you can:
- Demonstrate support and allyship
- Join community networks and get support at UCL
- Access the gender expression fund
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
Find out how you can:
- Demonstrate support and allyship
- Join community networks and get support at UCL
- Access the gender expression fund
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025
13–19 November is Transgender Awareness Week, followed by Transgender Day of Remembrance on 20 November.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
On #TransDayofRemembrance we remember, mourn and honour all those who have tragically been lost to anti-trans violence.
Find out how you can:
- Demonstrate support and allyship
- Join community networks and get support at UCL
- Access the gender expression fund
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
Find out how you can:
- Demonstrate support and allyship
- Join community networks and get support at UCL
- Access the gender expression fund
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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Last call for our Teacher Training Open Evening!
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Last call for our Teacher Training Open Evening!
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
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Thinking about teaching? Start your journey at our Teacher Training Open Evening.
🗓 Tue 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, London
• Explore PGCE routes
• Discover our Secondary Maths Teacher Apprenticeship
• Meet staff & advisors
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
🗓 Tue 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, London
• Explore PGCE routes
• Discover our Secondary Maths Teacher Apprenticeship
• Meet staff & advisors
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Thinking about teaching? Start your journey at our Teacher Training Open Evening.
🗓 Tue 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, London
• Explore PGCE routes
• Discover our Secondary Maths Teacher Apprenticeship
• Meet staff & advisors
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
🗓 Tue 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, London
• Explore PGCE routes
• Discover our Secondary Maths Teacher Apprenticeship
• Meet staff & advisors
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
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🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
Stonewall responds to the UK dropping six places in this year's ILGA…
The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for LGBTQ+ people across Europe. Today it has been announced that he UK has reached an…
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May 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
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Don’t miss our Teacher Training Open Evening on 24 April 2025, 4–7pm!
Explore our PGCE courses in Early Years, Primary, Secondary, and Further Education, and chat with our Admissions and Funding teams to learn more about studying at UCL.
📅 Register now: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-days/...
Explore our PGCE courses in Early Years, Primary, Secondary, and Further Education, and chat with our Admissions and Funding teams to learn more about studying at UCL.
📅 Register now: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-days/...
April 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Don’t miss our Teacher Training Open Evening on 24 April 2025, 4–7pm!
Explore our PGCE courses in Early Years, Primary, Secondary, and Further Education, and chat with our Admissions and Funding teams to learn more about studying at UCL.
📅 Register now: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-days/...
Explore our PGCE courses in Early Years, Primary, Secondary, and Further Education, and chat with our Admissions and Funding teams to learn more about studying at UCL.
📅 Register now: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-days/...
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Trans and nonbinary people are essential to the movement for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
They should be free to live authentically — with dignity and respect. Trans and nonbinary communities deserve that and more. 💞🏳️⚧️ #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV #ImForPP
🎨: @liberaljane.bsky.social
They should be free to live authentically — with dignity and respect. Trans and nonbinary communities deserve that and more. 💞🏳️⚧️ #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV #ImForPP
🎨: @liberaljane.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trans and nonbinary people are essential to the movement for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
They should be free to live authentically — with dignity and respect. Trans and nonbinary communities deserve that and more. 💞🏳️⚧️ #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV #ImForPP
🎨: @liberaljane.bsky.social
They should be free to live authentically — with dignity and respect. Trans and nonbinary communities deserve that and more. 💞🏳️⚧️ #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV #ImForPP
🎨: @liberaljane.bsky.social
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Happy Eid to all our celebrating students and staff!
March 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Happy Eid to all our celebrating students and staff!
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What an incredible Friday!
1. Saw my wonderful friend @nkbentley.bsky.social who is now a Lecturer at IOE!
2. Attended the Teaching Commission meeting.
3. I joined a panel of colleagues at a conference organised by @barbarableiman.bsky.social on ‘Linguistically Informed Oracy.’ TY Barbara!
1. Saw my wonderful friend @nkbentley.bsky.social who is now a Lecturer at IOE!
2. Attended the Teaching Commission meeting.
3. I joined a panel of colleagues at a conference organised by @barbarableiman.bsky.social on ‘Linguistically Informed Oracy.’ TY Barbara!
March 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
What an incredible Friday!
1. Saw my wonderful friend @nkbentley.bsky.social who is now a Lecturer at IOE!
2. Attended the Teaching Commission meeting.
3. I joined a panel of colleagues at a conference organised by @barbarableiman.bsky.social on ‘Linguistically Informed Oracy.’ TY Barbara!
1. Saw my wonderful friend @nkbentley.bsky.social who is now a Lecturer at IOE!
2. Attended the Teaching Commission meeting.
3. I joined a panel of colleagues at a conference organised by @barbarableiman.bsky.social on ‘Linguistically Informed Oracy.’ TY Barbara!
Iconic to see fabulous @msybibi.bsky.social today @ioe.bsky.social to hear about all of her brilliant work. Yamina was at the IOE today as part of her vital work with the Teaching Commision - we love to see it! 🩷✨
March 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Iconic to see fabulous @msybibi.bsky.social today @ioe.bsky.social to hear about all of her brilliant work. Yamina was at the IOE today as part of her vital work with the Teaching Commision - we love to see it! 🩷✨
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#1 for 12 years in a row ✨
@ucl.ac.uk's IOE is ranked first for Education in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
#QSWUR #WeAreIOE
@ucl.ac.uk's IOE is ranked first for Education in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
#QSWUR #WeAreIOE
March 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#1 for 12 years in a row ✨
@ucl.ac.uk's IOE is ranked first for Education in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
#QSWUR #WeAreIOE
@ucl.ac.uk's IOE is ranked first for Education in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
#QSWUR #WeAreIOE
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1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig
writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig
writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
It was fabulous to see this brilliant production of The Cost of Everything! I was so impressed by the thoughtful way that @hiddentrack.org.uk co-constructed the show with their audience, creating an urgent interrogation of neoliberalism and a joyful exploration of a meaningful alternative economics!
February 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It was fabulous to see this brilliant production of The Cost of Everything! I was so impressed by the thoughtful way that @hiddentrack.org.uk co-constructed the show with their audience, creating an urgent interrogation of neoliberalism and a joyful exploration of a meaningful alternative economics!
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🎉 Happy 199th birthday, UCL! 🎉
We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact.
UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year!
Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
#UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday
We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact.
UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year!
Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
#UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday
February 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🎉 Happy 199th birthday, UCL! 🎉
We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact.
UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year!
Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
#UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday
We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact.
UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year!
Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
#UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday
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Today's Diverse Educators blog is by me!
Inclusive Recruitment: 20 Tips to Consider
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#DiverseEd
Inclusive Recruitment: 20 Tips to Consider
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#DiverseEd
Inclusive Recruitment: 20 Tips to Consider | Diverse Educators
Our biggest advice is plan ahead and design for inclusion. These tips can all feed into a longer term piece of strategic work around your talent management process and people strategy.
www.diverseeducators.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Today's Diverse Educators blog is by me!
Inclusive Recruitment: 20 Tips to Consider
www.diverseeducators.co.uk/inclusive-re...
#DiverseEd
Inclusive Recruitment: 20 Tips to Consider
www.diverseeducators.co.uk/inclusive-re...
#DiverseEd
Here is some wonderful news - and much-needed joy! 🩷🏳️🌈✨🏳️⚧️🩷 Couples wed in a riot of colour as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Couples wed in a riot of colour as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
It's a momentous day for Thailand, one of very few places in Asia to recognise marriage equality.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Here is some wonderful news - and much-needed joy! 🩷🏳️🌈✨🏳️⚧️🩷 Couples wed in a riot of colour as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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Are you a school or MAT looking for a speaker, coach or trainer for professional development?
Maybe you’re seeking a coach with recent school leadership experience?
Get in touch to discuss how I can support you or your organisation.
Please share widely 🥰
🔗Yaminabibi.co.uk/contact
Maybe you’re seeking a coach with recent school leadership experience?
Get in touch to discuss how I can support you or your organisation.
Please share widely 🥰
🔗Yaminabibi.co.uk/contact
January 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Are you a school or MAT looking for a speaker, coach or trainer for professional development?
Maybe you’re seeking a coach with recent school leadership experience?
Get in touch to discuss how I can support you or your organisation.
Please share widely 🥰
🔗Yaminabibi.co.uk/contact
Maybe you’re seeking a coach with recent school leadership experience?
Get in touch to discuss how I can support you or your organisation.
Please share widely 🥰
🔗Yaminabibi.co.uk/contact
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When the Tesco cashier belts the clearly over 25 button on the self scans.
#traitors #traitorsuk #thetraitors
#traitors #traitorsuk #thetraitors
January 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
When the Tesco cashier belts the clearly over 25 button on the self scans.
#traitors #traitorsuk #thetraitors
#traitors #traitorsuk #thetraitors
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Why is belonging important? Inclusive classrooms can transform a student’s experience. @msybibi.bsky.social @hannahwilson.bsky.social #DiverseEd #IncludEd25
January 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Why is belonging important? Inclusive classrooms can transform a student’s experience. @msybibi.bsky.social @hannahwilson.bsky.social #DiverseEd #IncludEd25
How utterly fabulous to see this production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at the National Theatre - a completely wonderful, joyful and hilarious show!
January 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
How utterly fabulous to see this production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at the National Theatre - a completely wonderful, joyful and hilarious show!
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The 'Talk for Learning aspect of oracy...What should all teachers of every subject & all phases know? This from the Bullock Report (1975) should be posted up, in large format, on every Staffroom wall.
September 9, 2024 at 8:07 AM
The 'Talk for Learning aspect of oracy...What should all teachers of every subject & all phases know? This from the Bullock Report (1975) should be posted up, in large format, on every Staffroom wall.
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UCL (@uclofficial.bsky.social) is in the global top 10 for influential researchers, with 75 of its academics listed in the 2024 Clarivate ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ – including IOE's James Thomas.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2...
UCL in global top 10 for influential researchers
A total of 75 UCL academics are featured in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ 2024, recognising authors of the most influential research papers around the world.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
UCL (@uclofficial.bsky.social) is in the global top 10 for influential researchers, with 75 of its academics listed in the 2024 Clarivate ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ – including IOE's James Thomas.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2...
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Have you read our #DiverseEd book?
I have done a starter pack to find out chapter editors and contributors.
Wave if you are on Bluesky and I have missed you.
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I have done a starter pack to find out chapter editors and contributors.
Wave if you are on Bluesky and I have missed you.
go.bsky.app/CZMY3oV
December 27, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Have you read our #DiverseEd book?
I have done a starter pack to find out chapter editors and contributors.
Wave if you are on Bluesky and I have missed you.
go.bsky.app/CZMY3oV
I have done a starter pack to find out chapter editors and contributors.
Wave if you are on Bluesky and I have missed you.
go.bsky.app/CZMY3oV