Fran Bove FSET
@franbove
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Quality Manager, guitarist and backing vocalist in Mudeford and Sons, founder of AmpRocks. Views are my own etc #FE He/Him
Bournemouth
Joined July 2009
📘☕️ BOOK & MUG GIVEAWAY! I’m giving away a copy of my book Teaching One-Pagers and this exclusive caffeine holder to fuel your evidence-informed practice! To enter, simply REPOST this post. 🗓️ The winner will be picked randomly and announced on Monday, 30th September! Good
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The changes announced today for schools is the right response for schools. Now we wait for the @Ofstednews plans for colleges to ensure that inspections work well for them as well
“There would have been a lot of support from college leaders, parents and students for this to immediately change for colleges as well” - @AoCDavidH responds to government decision to immediately withdraw single line judgements for school inspections. https://t.co/30W6wXSvsN
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This is the only misstep I’ve seen Phillipson make so far. There is no way colleges can wait until Jan to find out if they can offer BTECs next September. Open evenings are this term! Ads need designing, staff sorting! And crucially: this would never happen to A-Levels.
🗣️ More than 450 school and college leaders have made a last-ditch plea with the education secretary to stop the 'madness' and pause the planned cull of BTECs for at least one year https://t.co/73MufJh2OD
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Paid less than school teachers Paid less than industry Higher exit rates than schools and NHS, double the exit rate of civil service New government doubles down on excluding college teachers from public sector pay award
🆕 The government has blamed the 'very challenging fiscal context' and the fact that FE does not have a pay review body for its decision to exclude college teachers from public sector pay awards. Full story 👇
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Extend the 5.5% Pay Increase To Further Education Staff - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/LcrzI8DXjq via @UKChange
change.org
Extend the 5.5% Pay Increase To Further Education Staff
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Why does a teacher of a 16-year-old in a school sixth form deserve a pay rise, but not a teacher of a 16-year-old in a college? If, like me, you think all teachers deserve the pay rise, please sign this petition👇 https://t.co/kptxD6nhuV
#loveourcolleges #publicsectorpay
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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"The recommended pay of college teachers has declined by 18% in real terms since 2010–11." Good news for school teachers & junior doctors yesterday. Less so for the wonderful folk who work in FE.
ifs.org.uk
This report examines how pay and retention levels among college teachers in England have changed over time and compared with school teachers.
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Am hearing that college teachers aren’t included in the latest announcement about pay rises. Obviously it’s great news for schools, but I don’t know how colleges are expected to recruit when the pay gap with schools already stands at £7k on average, before this latest rise. 1/n
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Unless you’re a teacher in a college https://t.co/LLgHP4B8TV
feweek.co.uk
The Advanced British Standard has also been scrapped
Teachers are getting a well-deserved pay rise. The Conservatives left the profession overstretched and undervalued. We said we’d change that, and we meant it.
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Unless you work in a FE college.
“We owe a huge amount to our public sector workers who kept our economy & society going through the pandemic & they are with us at some of the most challenging times. It is right public sector workers are rewarded properly” @RachelReevesMP 👏
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97%+ of over 65s are registered to vote. Only 2/3s of 18-24 year olds are on the register. If you turn 18 on or before 4th July you can register to vote right now. Do not lose your democratic birthright! It matters so much. It only takes 5 minutes. https://t.co/GwNNxTOaBC
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Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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And there is of course VAT on college education for all, including the majority of 16 to 18 year olds. Colleges pay £200m per year back to the government. We have repeatedly asked for this unfair tax on education to be removed, to no avail @Samfr
Several things wrong with this. Labour have said children with EHCPs (plans for special needs) will be exempt from VAT. Secondly private schools do pay VAT already (then added to fees). It's just that the parents don't. So there is already a tax on education.
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I'm running some free #behaviour training this Thursday to celebrate my new book. Hope you can join me! Please retweet. Thank you. 😊 https://t.co/B1v65hLELi
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Join this *free* book launch event to learn Sue Cowley's top ten tips for managing behaviour
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Nearly as good as colleges with 93% good our outstanding #LoveOurColleges
Breaking: 90% of schools now rated good or outstanding at their most recent inspection. Over 200,000 more children now attend good or outstanding schools in the last year alone. Thanks to the hard work of teachers and our reforms, we're continuing to drive up school standards.
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"We urge the OfS to pay close attention to the crucial role FE plays in meeting the skills needs of local and regional economies as well as providing access to HE for students" - AoC's Arti Saraswat responds to the OfS consultation on public grant funding. https://t.co/jNAjtR7cRz
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The Good Grief Trust have pioneered a number of national initiatives to help those grieving find immediate support whenever they live. We know the importance of early signposting to tailored bereavement services. Simply scan the QR code to access 900 + charities & support
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance – a time for us to remember every trans person who has lost their life to transphobic violence. We are living in a society where many trans people face daily discrimination and most young trans people have experienced transphobia. Words
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