I wrote it, Ros Hutchinson. Despite the threat of VAT, private school applications are the second highest in history. I have no doubt that the sector will be fine, and that Labour will raise a decent sum of money. My full article is here: schoolsweek.co.uk/avoiding-vat-i… Schools Week

Look all I’m saying is that those of us who were asleep last night and missed the #Auroraborealis have read Day of the Triffids and are sad that most of you on here will shortly go blind and be eaten by that clematis in your back garden (fairly sure that’s the plot).

The loss of cheaper degrees via Open University has, to my mind, been one of the biggest losses in education of the past 14 years.
I’ve written about it repeatedly: theguardian.com/education/2013…

'Nothing Else Matters' played by Ukrainian soldier on the bandura, the Ukrainian National Instrument

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Yes, me too when I was there. It should be a cardinal rule of policy making that you do not harm children to get at the parents.

Some thoughts on a neglected part of last week's local elections: that the Liberal Democrats came second in terms of council seats won while being a distant third in terms of votes: ft.com/content/65e5e0…

Brilliant. Couldn't agree more with every word

People may mock, but it is a truth widely acknowledged that the thing the ordinary British voter loves above all else is start-ups

Blog 'What do Ofsted and speed dating have in common?' based on our third working paper on sequence effects w/ Sam Sims and John Jerrim). Pre-print osf.io/preprints/edar… - funded by Nuffield Foundation.

By the way, since some people have figured it out on their own already, just gotta say that the same day James Somerton put up his post faking his death he rebranded his alt account then posted about tv shows and horny posted

Column, on why a bowl of Weetabix has a better sense of what is happening in the country than Rishi Sunak theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Talking to late teens early-20's about sex and relationships for a thing and major contribution of advice that seems to have rocked them? If someone responds with a 'wowwwwww' to any question they did it and/or they're an asshole. Ditch immediately.

“Feel free to shout ‘cease-fire now’ as you cross the stage to collect your diploma. But don’t create an environment where those in attendance end up angry at you, instead of being angry about what is happening in Gaza,” columnist @stephenwalt writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/06/wha…

this is what happens when you de facto ban new hotel construction in one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world

I am not exaggerating, NYC passed a law in 2021 that basically made it impossible to build a new hotel nytimes.com/2021/04/27/nyr…

If you’re a citizen of the U.S., the U.K. or any other western country that is viewed as an “enemy” by the Putin regime and you visit Russia there is an extremely real risk you will be arbitrarily detained and used as a bargaining chip in the Kremlin’s game of hostage diplomacy.

It does look like the Greens are in danger of being taken over by the Corbynistas to become primarily an anti-Labour party of the left. That will substantially reduce their influence. What a shame. Genuinely.

Tom is not wrong. Graduate wages in Britain have done so badly because economic (productivity) growth (and therefore wage growth) has been truly terrible. The rising minimum wage has only partially protected the lowest earning non-grads

Entire public: 'fix the decline of living standards, collapse in wages, cost of living'

Tories in the Telegraph. 'So what you're saying is that you'd like us to repeal the Equality Act, end the scourge of diversity and inclusion policies, something something the transgenders?'