Scientists log rare case of female polar bear adopting cub: ‘They’re really good moms’ Canadian researchers tracking bear known as X33991 noticed she had gained a second cub who likely needed help

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Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

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Covid infections have never gone away. Just transparency. When the government declared the Pandemic over they:

Ended testing
Masking
Restricted vaccines
Ended transparency on the stats

It’s not over folks.

DfE cuts teacher-training bursaries in 8 subjects Maths scholarships worth £31,000 are being scrapped, while awards for modern foreign languages will fall by £6,000 under new DfE guidance

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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025

Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
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National Institute of Teaching gains degree-awarding powers Move means government's flagship teacher training provider will award its own PGCE to trainees

The National Institute of Teaching has been granted the power to award degrees, in a move it says takes it closer to becoming a 'specialist, school-led university for the teaching profession'

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Early career teachers struggled with workload, finds ECF review The Early Career Framework has been ‘mostly successful’, despite various challenges. Here are seven key messages

Early career teachers and their mentors have struggled with a 'high and complex' workload, a review of the government’s Early Career Framework has found

🧵/ This heartbreaking case highlights why so many doctors like me have been begging NHS England & the Dept of Health to stop endangering NHS patients by substituting doctors with non-medically trained PAs

We've been dismissed & smeared as "toxic bullies".

Please read this thread & decide.

UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months British universities have been warned to “stress-test” all assessments after new research revealed “almost all” undergraduates are using…

UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

Bell, Book & Candle YouTube video by Eddi Reader - Topic

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The unintended negative longer-term consequences are an interesting/important finding.

This example couldn’t illustrate more effectively the costly, inefficient madness of swapping triage by highly trained & skilled GPs with a whole cacophony of unnecessary scans, radiation, appointments & bureaucracy.

If this is really Labour’s vision of the future NHS, it’s wildly misguided.

Looks like an incentive to divert patients away from accessing expert medical diagnoses and treatment on the basis of a phone call or email. £80m being taken from existing hospital elective care budget for this...?

Creating a culture of intellectual curiosity and inquiry in which teachers' professional autonomy can flourish, is a beneficial outcome in itself.

Lee Shulman coined the term 'pedagogical content knowledge' to represent the specialist knowledge needed by teachers to make content knowledge meaningful and accessible to learners. Such an influential figure for teachers and teaching.

Since 1997 there have been no less than 25 commissions, select committee inquiries & white papers on social care.

Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by...

... announcing the 26th one 😳

Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury 2025, claiming festival is ‘under corporate control’ of BBC The 79-year-old musician says the BBC ‘wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in’

Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury 2025, claiming festival is ‘under corporate control’ of BBC www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Ditch performance-related pay, unions tell schools New survey reveals some teachers still have performance targets linked to exam results

Unions have urged schools still using performance-related pay (PRP) to ditch the 'shoddy practice', after polling reveals some have retained it

"Middle-class women of a certain age to the south-west, Sir. A handful of 'em."

Welcome news given recent changes in requirements so soon after their introduction.

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Working memory capacity increases from childhood through to adolescence, when adult levels are reached. Within a particular age group, there is wide variation in working memory capacity between individuals. In a classroom of seven-year-olds, some children will have the working memory capacities of the average five-year-old child, and others of an average eleven-year-old. Children typically start to use rehearsal in verbal short-term memory at about seven years of age, and at this age also shift towards preferring to remember information in terms of verbal characteristics if possible. Increases in working memory capacity with age relate to improvements in the efficiency of processing and of attention.

Working memory and teaching in Primary

🤔Does breaking things down into sequences work for all primary students?
🤔Can we use the same rehearsal and retrieval methods with everyone in a primary class?
🤔Can all in a primary class pay the same amount of attention?

(Gathercole and Alloway)

I'm a new arrival over here and appreciating the Edu starter packs - thanks. 👋

I'm hunting down every last one of you lovely ITE / ITT folk. I'm mainly relying on people's bios to determine who might want to be included here, so if I've missed you, let me know and I will update this list.

Reposts appreciated 👍

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