It feels very familiar on the surface, but is so different underneath.

Starbucks, shopping malls and brand new cars... within a culture deeply rooted in collaboration and duty.

Whereas our 'squeaky wheel gets the grease', their 'nail that sticks out gets hammered down".

It makes for bargains!

Have you seen Hoop Dreams? Got to be close.

I remember seeing When We Were Kings in the cinema. Amazing experience - and came out ready to take on the world.

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You look correct to me. It's surprising isn't it, because it is collected in the census. Maybe the reason is that the parent/child has the right for it to be confidential. So they have to declare it to each scool. This is useful -

www.bristol.gov.uk/the-hope/pre...

Not a real expert, but I could ask around MIS colleagues

quiz-time-battle Lovable Generated Project

Just had an idea for a maths game and made it using Lovable in five minutes 🤯

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He also has actual principles, a purpose he cares about more than the 'optics', and he's willing to lose.

And so it begins

A bit like this one a friend took of me heading into No10 to sort shit out

I think Kes might be my favourite British film.

So many great scenes, no bad ones.

Romantic, mucky, hilarious and sad.

And a brutal depiction of the education system as it was.

Inflation rate is the wrong metric for this moment. Being around 2.3% doesn't mean things are back on plan, because that's 2.3% on top of the 10%+ we just saw. Would better to show the cumulative cost ...

Less than half of all GCSE pupils do work experience — The Key Group Worryingly few pupils do any work experience before they sit their GCSEs, a major new report has found. Most secondary schools in England allocate time for pupils to go on a work experience placeme...

It would be great to see your wishlist for data on these issues Sam. I feel like a lot could be found in public data on e.g. suspensions. Data on historic day-of-the-week attendance does exist in the MIS. We recently did this report and plan to do more like it: thekeygroup.com/news-insight...

1. I Want You (She's so Heavy) - The Beatles
2. I am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
3. Daydreaming - Radiohead
4. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
5. I am the Resurrection - Stone Roses

I have a vivid memory of a day at an Earls Court expo - might have witnessed your moment 😅

The real good times were buying copied games at Brick Lane market

Parents would find this very odd I think.

Teaching is the most important thing... but we can't observe its quality?

What if the inspection process was very different?

How does good teaching manifest in a way that can be observed? Exam results?

Genuinely interested in your thoughts!

Ever get the feeling that the people who preach that home ownership and owning things aren't important ... all live in massive homes full of nice things?

More of a Christmas country than a Christian one

Yeah in the room it partly came across as a wry joke

Salt, fat, acid.
(and peppercorns)

Have you read Kitchen Confidential? This stuck with me...

"If you eat at any good restaurant, assume you've eaten a stick of butter."

The session 2 lineup is a crime

This seems important. In terms of my understanding of atomic physics, but also in terms of scientific discovery and experimentation.

Is it accurate?

the absolute worst thing about bluesky is how long the profile @ names are

In order to move away from one-word inspections, Ofsted will now grade all schools as Requires Improvement

Gonna join my first ResearchEd #rED24 event on Saturday. It's not my usual area but I've been really interested in it, basically since working on the Simple Assessment module at ScholarPack. Would be great to say hello 👋

It being on a Saturday has always put me off - - but I think you've just convinced me