Exceptional commitment to a theme!
I've been updating my Spotify playlist - "Songs Where The Entire Song Title Is Just The Name Of An Actor". You might think that there are only a handful of songs which could qualify, but It's currently running at 740 songs, and just shy of 43 hours. open.spotify.com/playlist/0rC...
I heard yesterday that larger universities are effectively buying out the most popular courses of their local smaller universities, and also that lots of smaller universities are planning to cut all research and become teaching institutes only. Is this happening elsewhere?
We’re particularly interested in hearing the views and experiences of children & young people around curriculum and assessment. If you have a school council or pupil leadership team, coordinating a response to the call for evidence could be a really meaningful activity. www.gov.uk/government/n...
And we’re off! The call for evidence for the curriculum and assessment review is now open, and will be for 8 weeks. As @beckyfrancis.bsky.socialwww.gov.uk/government/c...
We're inviting people to share their ideas for potential improvements to the school curriculum and assessment system in England.
School: This is science! High School: That was the simple version. It's more like this. University: That was also a simple version. Here are five approximations which kind of work sometimes. Grad school: WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Postdoc: Look, no one really knows. Try and figure it out for yourself.
This is basically every conversation I have with @hywelroberts.bsky.social about maths (he LOVES maths, he told me so as he walked away and locked his car door). I feel like somewhere we lost the sensible realist ground in the last few years.
NEW Blog Post: ‘Pedagogical puritan or pragmatist?’ I wade into the pedagogical quagmire to ask a fundamental question: Where should educators stand in a divided landscape? https://amiealbrecht.com/2024/09/18/pedagogical-puritan-or-pragmatist/
I wade into the pedagogical quagmire to ask a fundamental question: Where should educators stand in a divided landscape?
This week i have pledged to write. I'll do it I tells ya, I WILL!!
ALT: dipper from gravity falls is holding a clipboard
