Educational Development, learning & teaching in HE. SFHEA. PhD, 2014: London Lord Mayors' Shows. Views my own. Swears. She/her. EmmaKEdDev on Bsky.
London, England
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Join us on 11 December for an insightful workshop, “Decolonising Soil Research in the Global South” where we'll explore connections between historical & contemporary soil data & how to meet the needs of land and agric research & practice.
Register here: shorturl.at/qcitz
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Approx 29k resident doctors applied for 9k training posts this year. They're not "choosing" to forgo specialist training, @gmcuk, they're being forced out of it by the decision to artificially suppress numbers of doctor training posts, even though we're so short of consultants.
We're pleased to share the second in our annual series of #StateOfMed reports – Workforce. This focuses on the changing shape of the medical workforce across the UK.
This year’s report shows that the medical register continues to grow, as does the diversity of the doctors on it.
Doctors’ career paths are also changing, with more doctors than ever before choosing locally employed (LE) roles, working outside of formal postgraduate training pathways and with local contracts.
In England and Wales, where data is currently available to us, the number of LE doctors grew by 75% between 2019 and 2023 – this makes this the fastest growing cohort on the register.
As we look to the next decade, it’s critical that all doctors have the infrastructure, support and resources they need to achieve their ambitions. That’s in the interests of doctors, as well as the interests of a growing and ageing population.
Discover more insights and key statistics by reading the report on our website gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents…
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TRAVEL WARNING: the london commuter girlies are TODAY switching from lighter autumn jacket to dark wool winter coat, saying "we should've worn this yesterday". BE PREPARED: any colour of coat is ok as long as your boots match and you have a big checkered scarf and maybe a fringe
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Labour's family farm tax problem should be really easy to fix, and they could probably even do it in a revenue neutral way - eg instead of 20% above £1m go to 30% above £5 million.
They've got it wrong, and if you're going to have to do a U-turn then best to get on with it.
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To all conference attendees everywhere, please never decline a mic. The loudness of a voice is not the only thing that makes it intelligible and so some of us cannot hear you regardless of how well you project.
This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea.
#POD24
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In the late 1970s, working (in her words) in 'stealth mode' as a woman, Lynn developed very large scale integration (VLSI) of computer components, a key breakthrough in computer science, which enabled the modern computer and ultimately put smartphones in everyone's pocket.
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It's timely to highlight the life & work of computer scientist Lynn Conway.
In the late 1960s, she transitioned from male to female and was sacked by IBM as a result. For some years, she went underground and, for the rest of her career, worked as a woman - herstory unknown.
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Applications due next week!! Priority given to trans applicants.
Very happy to answer any questions about UVic or living on Vancouver Island. In summary: run here as fast as you can.
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Would you like to join in our project to support & promote the teaching of Indigenous histories & perspectives in UK schools? We have PAID opportunities for educators to make teaching resources, & a meeting Mon 18th to find out more about getting involved! docs.google.com/document/u/2…
ALT All the information on the flier is in the link in the tweet.
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Our mortgages doubled and butter now costs £78 because you were in charge for a handful of days SIT DOWN.
Congratulations @realDonaldTrump. Great news for the USA and the West. Let the fightback begin!
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Study (N=200 courses) tested 3 interventions to reduce gender bias in student evals, but none were effective. "Women who were tough graders or taught large classes received more criticism than men with the same grading style or class size." @kimelsesser
forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser…
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Lecturer in English Literary Studies, Pre-1750 (Education and Scholarship)
University of Exeter
Full time
Jan - Aug
jobs.ac.uk/job/DKH687/lectur…
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You could easily trick LibsofTiktok into running into a cliffside by painting a tunnel on it
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I actually need journalists and MPs to talk about the terrifying rise of “rent to rent” because people are renting properties privately from landlords and then subletting them to OUR COUNCILS as social housing and then pocketing profit
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Schools cannot 'make' neurodivergent pupils behave by giving them a suspension - you wouldn't expect someone in a wheelchair to start walking because you sent them home for a week. Autism can be just as disabling.
The way to address it is to build an inclusive environment.
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When neurodivergent children are dysregulated, and in a bad environment, they can struggle to behave.
This is an inherent part of their disability.
You cannot 'make' them behave by shouting at them, in the same way you cannot make a blind person see by yelling in their face.
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Paddington's been in the UK since 1958, so this is uncharacteristically speedy work by the Home Office
Paddington Bear given official UK passport by Home Office theguardian.com/film/2024/oc…
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Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books.
They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.
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This is brilliant news.
"All prosecutions of people accused of wrongfully using a 16-25 Railcard to obtain a discount at the wrong time of day are being withdrawn and thousands of previous cases are being reviewed, the company said on Monday."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10…
