Sad to see demolition of Owens Park tower. Following demolition of the iconic Maths building, seems like my most cherished Manchester venues disappearing

Pleased to see Eva Bedford Borough Council highlighting the Town Deal renewal of the Bedford College Tower (£3m from Deal, £9m from college)

Today’s OECD Education report interesting as always. We don’t seem to discuss much how academisation means 72% of secondary students now in private institutions v 18% elsewhere

Also OECD Education report highlights stark difference in our teacher workforce. Unlike rest of world U.K. is no country for old teachers, only half the 50+ percentage, and getting worse

Pleased to see the Chancellor visiting Silverstone UTC today. A great place (declaration - I'm a former Chair!). Amazon Web Services has invested in the UTC's Digital Futures Lab too, so a fitting venue

It's historic & ongoing bolshiness & concern for the underdog: Bunyan (non-conformism), Howard (prison reform), Huddlestone (apartheid), Beds on Sunday (investigative journalism), BBC's secret wartime home, codebreakers (& largest UK college group outside a major city of course!)

Alexa, can you be scared by a graph? …….. (via Andy Andy Westwood)

Really good to see Susan supporting the FE system in this way. WorldSkills UK competitions allow students to test themselves against true international benchmarks, and prove themselves world-class as a result

A piece to inspire, featuring Ayesha, a superstar former employee of The Bedford College Group electronicspecifier.com/news/women-in-…

Fantastic achievement by Maymounah, alumnus of The Bedford College Group The Bedford Sixth Form & Bedford Free School, and now off to Durham to cap a brilliant year

Wellingborough is about as far as you can get from the sea, so hats off to Tresham College’s Ethan Egan whose artwork made people feel they were at the seaside

Congratulations to WorldSkills UK, the competitors, trainers & FE Week for the coverage. 4 medals & 12 medallions from a team of 27 is excellent. Stunned by China. 60% of team won gold & they took almost half the golds on offer!

Never sure you should mess with a perfect album, but then Talking Heads never put a foot wrong, so bound to buy it pitchfork.com/news/talking-h…

As a community shareholder in Pwllheli’s empty Tŵr hotel, it has been good to see it being used by the company filming for Netflix opposite. Maybe we’ll see Tom Cruise or Emma Stone staying once the community has got it renovated!