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Alison Milner
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Researcher of teachers’ work and professionalism. Working in Denmark.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you want members tomorrow, you need to listen to students today - leader of the Swedish (Student) Teachers Union rejects its business model. With market control, high workload, and deprofessionalisation, she calls for the union to organise, mobilise and fight.

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Nya studentordföranden: ”Facket måste våga ta strid”
Emma Arvidsson har tagit över ordförandeklubban för Sveriges Lärarstudenter – och manar till ett fackförbund med ”mer jävlar anamma”. ”Om man vill ha medlemmar i morgon behöver man lyssna på studenter...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Iceland’s AI pilot in education: What does it really mean for teachers?
Big Tech headlines don’t tell the full story. The Icelandic case shows why teacher voice and social dialogue matter in shaping AI in schools.
Read more t.ly/2dubR
#AI #Education #Teachers #SocialDialogue #CSEE
European Trade Union Committee for Education
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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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'High-performing, financially stable schools that are deeply rooted in their communities need ways to collaborate without sacrificing their autonomy'

The case for making school-led partnerships an alternative to MATs

schoolsweek.co.uk/why-the-mat-...
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Homesickness definitely comes in waves when you live a nomadic life. And sometimes my loss of the ordinary is greater than my gratitude for the extraordinary opportunity of living overseas. But my home is less a place than the people who are/were in it. Which is why I miss Yorks as much as Harbs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The decline in MFL in UK is down to education/foreign policy not societal shift. Curricular/assessment reforms, cuts to adult ed. Brexit & soft power focus on promoting GB/English beyond Europe. Bilateralism over EU multilateralism. All reduced value of EU langs.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees
Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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New: Government makes significant concession to overseas-trained teachers, as recruits from six countries are given fast-track access to Qualified Teacher Status, after 12 months' teaching here.
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Education Uncovered | News| Government makes significant concession to overseas-trained teachers, as recruits from six countries are given fast-track access to Qualified Teacher Status
Move follows coverage in Observer last year of conditions facing Jamaican recruits to Harris Federation schools
educationuncovered.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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UK millionaires say 'we want to pay more tax'.

Why is that UK govts only listen to the rich who resent paying tax and decent wages?

The rich can't feel secure whilst masses live in poverty. Poor people can't buy goods/services to boost the economy.
Millionaires call on Rachel Reeves to raise their taxes in Budget
Two wealthy businessmen say the chancellor should make them pay more ahead of the Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Exclusive: Staff are due to strike for six days in December and January over a school’s roll-out of a 'virtual teacher', who teaches maths remotely to secondary pupils

schoolsweek.co.uk/staff-to-str...
Staff to strike over school's 'dystopian' virtual teacher
NEU members are to strike for six days in December and January over a school's use of a 'virtual teacher' to teach maths to secondary pupils
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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På mindre än vecka har tidskrift jag är redaktör i fått AI skriven artikel av seniora forskare

En professor har lämnat in delvis AI-genererat sakkunnigutlåtande

En vän berättar om medsökande på projekt skjutit upp sin deadline med en vecka eftersom ”ChatGPT inte funkar i Kina” där hen är just nu
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a wooden wall .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a wooden wall rubs his eyes with an exasperated expressinon of ”jesus help me”
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
With students having to study closer to home due to the cost-of-living crisis and exorbitant tuition fees, what does this mean for aspiring linguists and musicians in the region? It's a long commute to Sheffield and London from my own town in Leics. This is a huge cultural and social justice issue.
This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Social Democrats lost control of Copenhagen municipality and had wider losses in the municipal elections. The new mayor is from the Green Left (SF) party which secured 17.9% of the vote behind the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) on 22.1%. The Social Democrats took 12.7%, down 3% on 2021.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Democracy in Denmark. My second time voting in local and regional elections. The last time was during the pandemic. Which probably means it's time for me to move on. #valg2025
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
On GenAI, the hegemony of English, and the potential loss of local and indigenous knowledge
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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INDUSTRIAL ACTION UPDATE: We’ve had some movement in response to our strike action. A 🧵.
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Instead of issuing targets from Whitehall, the government’s focus should be on providing the practical resources and support that genuinely make a difference, including services for families with challenges in their lives that impact their children’s school attendance.

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Schools face 'AI-powered' attendance targets despite record absence fall - SecEd
The Department for Education will use AI to create new student attendance targets for state schools
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
As a modern linguist, I agree that the proposed closures of MFL depts are short-sighted. HE should contribute to reversing the UK’s poor record in language learning not embed it further. My UoN degree was transformative allowing me to understand people and cultures far from my Yorkshire roots
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The uneven spread of pupils with SEND is putting 'significant pressure' on inclusive schools, warns a report by @thenfer.bsky.social
Some primaries have ‘six times’ more pupils with SEND
Uneven spread of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities puts ‘significant pressure’ on inclusive schools, warns report
www.tes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Great to see EPI's work on children missing from education recognised at the inaugural @smartthinking.bsky.social awards last night.

"300,000 children are missing entirely from education" was the "killer stat of the year".

Read the report: epi.org.uk/publications...
Children Missing from Education - Education Policy Institute
A new report by the Education Policy Institute finds that up to 300,000 children may be missing from education entirely. By comparing GP registrations with school registrations and data on pupils in r...
epi.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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How can trade unions innovate and stay strong in a changing world❓

📆 Join us on 4 December to hear some of the leading scholars of union renewal from Europe and North America present their latest research in discussion with trade unionists from a diverse range of sectors

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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM