Just published an #InformedScotland Scottish Parliament Election Extra 2026 - A brief scan of manifestos & resources focusing on or highlighting learning & skills issues ahead of the election. Free to download: informedscotland.co.uk/2026/04/20/i...
#HolyroodElection #edusky
Cover of the Informed Scotland November 2025 issue featuring the learning and skills hot topics
#InformedScotland 136: Learning & career pathways & teacher wellbeing
informedscotland.co.uk/2025/12/10/i...
#EduSky #learning #skills #teachers #careers #scotland
Who's where in Scottish learning & skills? The 13th annual #InformedScotland Organisations & People Special provides subscribers with a snapshot of an ever-changing landscape. Has links to 440+ bodies, with notes highlighting changes
informedscotland.co.uk/2025/09/01/w...
#learning #skills
#InformedScotland 132: Reform, Bills, Finances & Futures
informedscotland.co.uk/2025/07/10/i...
#learning #skills #EduSky #education
#InformedScotland 131: AI skills, literacy & perceptions informedscotland.co.uk/2025/06/12/i...
This edition marks @informedscot.bsky.social's 13th anniversary. Many thanks to all subscribers, particularly those who signed up at the start – it wouldn’t be here now without your faith in the concept
Libraries are more than books. 📚❤️
When we asked you why libraries mattered, this is what you told us. 🗣️
Read our full libraries report here: www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...
A number of major international conferences are taking place in Scotland this year for education professionals. Here’s a selection...
informedscotland.co.uk/2025/03/26/l...
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Cover of Informed Scotland learning and skills digest Feb 2025. List of hot topics
#InformedScotland 128: AI in skills, schools & higher education
informedscotland.co.uk/2025/03/12/inf…
#learning #skills #education
Cover of Informed Scotland learning & skills digest number 127. Includes list of nine hot topics. Graphic of overlapping coloured circles.
#InformedScotland 127: Learning, improving, achieving
'Packed with new courses & partnership projects, annual statistics & surveys, resources & research, there were also announcements & reports worth highlighting...'
www.ajenterprises.co.uk/2025/02/12/i...
#learning #skills #education #training
NEW: The UK has larger skills inequalities between different parts of the country than most other European countries.
🌍 ‘Worlds Apart’, our 2nd #AmbitionSkills report, supported by City and Guilds and NOCN, shows these inequalities are set to widen.
learningandwork.org.uk/resources/re...
Those of us that work in HE, and especially University libraries, have a duty to learn how to contribute to @wikipedia.bsky.social and support our communities to do so!
Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
Pulling together this list is one of those favourite annual tasks - and there's always a surprise or two...
#InformedScotland
On the four year anniversary of their kicking Trump off Meta's platforms, Zuckerberg is trying to out-Musk Musk: "It's time to get back to our roots around free expression."
He's announced that Meta will:
Cover of Informed Scotland listing hot topics in learning & skills in November 2024
#InformedScotland 126: Qualifications, Careers, Wellbeing & Finances
www.ajenterprises.co.uk/2024/12/12/i...
#learning #skills #education #Scotland #Careers
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education published a project report & resources on 'Accessibility & equity in proofreading students' academic work'. Produced via a QAA-funded project led by Loughborough University www.qaa.ac.uk//en/membersh...
#proofreading #AcademicProofreading #EduSky
Hello Bluesky! This is a space for editors, proofreaders and writers to connect, share insights and support each other in their professional journeys. Whether you're a seasoned pro or starting out, there's a place for you in our community.
#CIEPCommunity #Editinglife #ProofreadingProfessionals
✨ We are hiring! ✨
Islay Book Festival are looking for an organised and enthusiastic freelance festival co-ordinator 📚
Just pop us an email at hello@islaybookfestival.co.uk for a full job description.
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Congratulations to Pàdraig MacAoidh [Peter Mackay] on his appointment as Scotland's new Makar (National Poet).
Pàdraig is the first Scottish Gaelic poet in the role.
He recorded his poem Crann-cuinnse [Quince Tree] to promote the announcement. The English translation appears in the thread below.
Pleased to support this new NFER report, as part of #Skills2035, supported by @nuffieldfoundation.org, of which we are a co-investigator.
The report outlines 🔟 steps to help workers in ‘high-risk’ roles transition to growing occupations.
www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...
Hey, friends new and old!
This seems like a good time to let you know about / remind you of my editor starter packs, and for you to let me know if you'd like to be in one of 'em.
There are two general editor starter packs. Here's the first:
go.bsky.app/2kVHe2i
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Thank you!!
If there's space could you add me to your 2nd starter pack please? 🙂
Loving it, but Act 3 of #BG3 is neverending!
New starter pack for members of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) to find each other. Bookmark the link as more people will be added to it later. go.bsky.app/9pp1tVx
#StarterPack #CIEP #Edibuddies #AmEditing
Fabulous! Please add me too 🙂
