Will Bickford Smith
@wbickfordsmith
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Working on school system reform in Australia | Former advisor to the UK Education Secretary.
Sydney
Joined July 2020
RT @CISOZ: 'Award-winning education economist Eric Hanushek argued in 2023 that the downward trend in Australia’s performance in internatio….
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Fantastic news.
We welcome @JoshMacAlister as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education.
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RT @JamesKanag: I’ve written today for the @thetimes on why our shortening attention spans are bad for our politics.
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RT @adamboxer1: Education people: a third of students have to fail every year. Ofqual: no, thats not true. If standards improve year on yea….
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RT @C_Hendrick: "Learning facts is going to fade into the background." 🤦♂️.Quick thread on why this is a terrible take🧵⬇️.
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RT @h_spencer: ITT is a really important part of a teacher’s career, and it’s encouraging that an increasing number of people and organisat….
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RT @matthewsyed: Entitlement is destroying the UK. Entitlement of nimbys, triple locked pensioners, tax avoiding rich, welfare fraudsters,….
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RT @IGMansfield: There are around 250 university courses where fewer than half of those who enroll complete and go on to a graduate job. W….
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RT @daisychristo: In the latest post on our Substack I try to make sense of the mutual incomprehension between teachers & students about th….
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RT @theNSN: @TeachFirst was a brilliant innovation that has led countless top graduates to become inspiring teachers. Many of them took th….
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Prior to Teach First being set up, top graduates from high-tariff universities rarely went into teaching - let alone in disadvantaged areas. Rowing back from this policy would send a clear signal that teaching is no longer a leading graduate profession.
Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for @ObserverUK
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RT @RSylvester1: Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my….
observer.co.uk
Leading brand that trains teachers for most deprived areas of the UK to get reprieve after bureaucrats accused of trying to scrap it
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RT @primarypercival: The Writing Framework has just been published, and I'm pleased to have been part of the sector panel to help produce t….
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What’s missing is leadership. As I argued recently, government should focus on tackling the root causes of poor wellbeing - and set out a compelling vision for what a good childhood looks like:.
schoolsweek.co.uk
Spelling out a vision and a plan for children and their future is key to winning back hearts and minds
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We have a serious problem with children’s wellbeing in England. But we don’t need a new £30m+ per year national survey to tell us that. We already have reams of national data - and schools collect rich, daily insights through their pastoral teams.
📏 'If we want to shift from firefighting crises to offering earlier, more effective support, we need better information to guide schools, inform local services and shape national policy'. @Gus_ODonnell.
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If a largely AI-written curriculum is the answer, you’re asking the wrong question.
If AI can write your curriculum, it probably didn’t deserve to be written. Yes, LLMs can churn out a lesson or a scheme of work in seconds. But should they? A curriculum isn’t a checklist: it’s a structured expression of value, shaped by judgement, history, and context. If your.
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RT @dylanwiliam: @effortfuleduktr I think this is one of the major failing of our education systems. We haven't managed to persuade our stu….
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RT @Mr_Raichura: Nothing beats good old hard work. Schools must defend knowledge-curricula, traditional exams & teachers must understand co….
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RT @daisychristo: In my book 7 Myths about Education, I wrote a chapter about why transferable skills don't exist. But you don't need a c….
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RT @j_amesmarriott: I wrote this about how to read and why. Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the wo….
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I love reading and I love advice about how to read.
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