Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #secondaryeducation, aggregated by home.social.
Unilever Nigeria Empowers Employees’ Children With Scholarships, Boosts
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is working towards establishing a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) centre…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Unilever #education #HumanCapitalDevelopment #Nigeria #Scholarship #SecondaryEducation #UnileverNigeria #WAEC #youthempowerment
https://www.europesays.com/britain/140134/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/140134/ Unilever Nigeria Empowers Employees’ Children With Scholarships, Boosts #education #HumanCapitalDevelopment #Nigeria #Scholarship #SecondaryEducation #Unilever #UnileverNigeria #WAEC #YouthEmpowerment
Union, community say $500k 'woefully inadequate' for Alice Springs College
By Victoria Ellis, Will Regan, and Stewart Brash
The Australian Education Union (AEU) says half a million dollars will not be enough to cover all necessary infrastructure upgrades at the new Alice Springs high school merger.
#SecondaryEducation #PublicSchools #VictoriaEllis #WillRegan #StewartBrash
I'm not sure what I think about this contribution to the "skills or content" debate in education.
It would be interesting to read comments from Scots.
#Education #Scotland #Curriculum #SecondaryEducation #CurriculumForExcellence #CFE
Young people pushing back against artificial intelligence
By Daniel Miles
AI may be here to stay, but the generation that will inherit the results of the guidelines set for its use has something to say about that.
#AIEthics #SecondaryEducation #ComputerScience #Robotics #Internet #CommunityandSociety #AI #DanielMiles
https://www.europesays.com/videos/91028/ For years, Welsh school kids have performed the worst in the UK. We investigated why #ALevel #EARLYYEARS #education #GCSE #itv #ItvNews #KS1 #KS2 #Learning #PrimaryEducation #school #SchoolEnvironment #SecondaryEducation #senedd #Teachers #Teaching #WalesCurriculum #WelshGovernment
Western Sydney's new observatory centuries in the making
By Nabil Al-Nashar
Powerhouse Parramatta is now home to an observatory featuring research-grade telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies.
Nazi salutes, Epstein jokes: How the 'manosphere' is affecting classrooms
By Fiona Blackwood
Female teachers are speaking out about how the "manosphere" is affecting classrooms, with some saying they have noticed a rise in misogynistic attitudes among students.
#Children #ParentingChildren #Teachers #SecondaryEducation #GenderDiscrimination #FionaBlackwood
Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education
Father after father AFP spoke to in Afghanistan about the education ban that stops their daughters going beyond…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Afghanmen #Afghanistan #primaryschool #secondaryeducation #Talibanauthorities #Talibangovernment #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/687493/
WA's NAPLAN results trigger 'concern' for year 3s
By Kenith Png
Western Australia's NAPLAN results show 40 per cent of year 3 students are struggling with numeracy, but year 9 students are out-performing the national average in every category this year.
'National tragedy': Experts warn of concerning NAPLAN knowledge gaps
By Conor Duffy
NAPLAN test scores have revealed one-third of Australian students are not meeting "challenging but reasonable" expectations in literacy and numeracy.
#Education #EducationalTestingandExaminations #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #ConorDuffy
How Gen Z sees money — and how it drives their spending and saving
By Dimitria Panagiotaros
Social media and 'finfluencers' are just some of the ways Gen Z are learning about money in a changing financial world.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/gen-z-money-habits/106894802
#PersonalFinance #YoungPeople #ParentingTeenagers #SecondaryEducation #DimitriaPanagiotaros
Indian activist on hunger strike forcibly removed by police
Sonam Wangchuk, who began a hunger strike last month in solidarity with India's youth party after an examination scandal affected millions of students, was forced to go to hospital by court order due to his "deteriorating health condition".
Retired teacher says year 12 marks are being inflated in 'unfair' grading system
By Eugene Boisvert
A retired South Australian teacher says some educators are inflating the grades of year 12 students, which she says is making the marks "unfair".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/sa-teacher-alleges-sace-moderation-manipulation/106918438
#EducationalGrading #Teachers #EducationalInstitutions #SecondaryEducation #EugeneBoisvert
I hate to be that person, but just imagine a school that was getting Ofsteded this week, in July, so close to the end of term, in a heatwave, after half of staff and students being up all night on Sunday. And after a Yr6 Transition Evening last night. Imagine that. So, whose school might that be...? #Education #ukeducation #SecondaryEducation #Ofsted #edutoot #Edutooters
https://www.europesays.com/africa/310564/ FG to Scrap JSS, SSS Separation Policy After 20m Drop Out #EducationPolicy #EducationReform #JSSSSSSeparation #MinisterOfEducation #Nigeria #NigerianEducation #OutOfSchoolChildren #SchoolDropouts #SecondaryEducation #TunjiAlausa #UBEC
Their Words, Your Classroom
Three Oral History Assignments That Actually Work — Powered by Adobe Podcast
There is a moment every oral historian knows: the one where the interviewee pauses, looks somewhere past the camera, and says something no textbook would ever say. That pause carries more civic education than most lesson plans I have ever written. But for years, capturing that moment in a high school classroom meant fighting against clunky equipment, inconsistent audio, and a publishing workflow that fell apart somewhere between the recording and the portfolio. Adobe Podcast changes that equation significantly, and the combination of browser-based recording with AI-powered audio enhancement makes oral history a genuinely viable cornerstone practice for secondary social studies and ELA classrooms.
I want to walk through three distinct assignments I have built around this tool — each serving a different purpose in the classroom ecosystem, and each drawing on the traditions established by institutions like the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Oral History Archive and StoryCorps. These are not hypothetical; they are what I am using, iterated through actual classroom feedback from students at The STEAM Academy in Lexington, Kentucky.
Why Oral History? The Civic Case
Before diving into the assignments, it is worth naming what oral history does that written work often cannot. When students conduct an interview, they are practicing active listening, formulating follow-up questions in real time, synthesizing another person’s experience against content knowledge, and — crucially — recognizing that the historical and civic record is made of people, not just dates. The USHMM’s oral history collection contains tens of thousands of testimonies, and its approach to preserving eyewitness accounts has shaped how archives around the world think about voice as evidence. StoryCorps has taken that tradition and built something radically democratic: a project where anyone’s story can land in the Library of Congress with one tap on an app.
Both models hold a lesson for classroom practice. Oral history is not just a cute alternative assessment; it is a methodology with a rigorous tradition, and students who engage with it seriously are doing exactly the kind of primary source work that the discipline demands.
The Tool: Adobe Podcast in Plain Language
Adobe Podcast is a browser-based audio suite. Students do not need to download software, manage DAW files, or own a quality microphone. The platform’s Enhance Speech feature uses AI to remove background noise, echo, and room ambiance from voice recordings — which means a student recording from a kitchen table or a school hallway can produce audio that sounds like a broadcast studio. For educators who have ever cringed at a student podcast submission that sounded like it was recorded inside a vacuum cleaner, this matters.
The Studio feature (in beta as of mid-2026) allows browser-based recording, transcription, and basic editing, with speaker-separated downloads available on the Premium plan. For most classroom purposes, the free Enhance Speech tool alone is transformative; students record on a phone, upload the file, and the platform does the heavy lifting. The workflow is approachable enough that it does not become the assignment — the interview itself remains the focus.
A Note on Access: Adobe Podcast’s core Enhance Speech feature is available at no cost. Studio and Premium features require a paid plan. Check with your school’s technology coordinator about district Adobe licensing, as many schools already have access through Creative Cloud agreements.
Assignment One: The Mentor Portrait — For Student Portfolios
The first assignment is designed to live inside a student’s longitudinal portfolio. The concept is straightforward: students interview a mentor, teacher, coach, family member, or community figure who has meaningfully influenced their growth in a specific skill area. The interview is recorded, enhanced through Adobe Podcast, and submitted alongside a reflective annotation that connects what the mentor said to the student’s own documented growth.
The Pedagogical Purpose
Portfolio work often risks becoming a collection of artifacts without connective tissue. The Mentor Portrait solves that by requiring students to externalize their growth narrative through someone else’s eyes. When a student asks a mentor “What do you remember noticing when I first started, and what do you see now?” they are not just gathering a nice quote — they are triangulating their self-assessment against an observed account. That triangulation is a sophisticated metacognitive move, and the recorded interview gives the portfolio a human anchor.
Assignment Structure
Sample Questions to Get Students Started
These questions work because they are retrospective and specific; they invite narrative rather than evaluation. Students often find that mentors say things they did not expect, and those surprises become the richest material for the portfolio annotation.
Assignment Two: The End-of-Project and Semester Reflection
The second assignment repurposes the oral history format for student reflection — not an interview with someone else, but a structured self-interview or recorded reflection at the conclusion of a major project or semester. This is particularly powerful at the end of units that involve significant collaborative or creative work, where the student has something real to look back on.
The Pedagogical Purpose
Written reflections are familiar to students, which can make them feel perfunctory. Asking a student to speak their reflection — and then to listen back to it, potentially editing it for clarity — changes the register. Speaking forces a different kind of organization than writing; students cannot as easily hide behind vague language when they hear themselves say it out loud. The recording also creates a time-stamped artifact that students can return to months later, which is genuinely valuable in a longitudinal portfolio context.
Two Formats That Work Well
Self-Interview: The student prepares 5-7 questions in advance, records themselves asking each question, pauses, and then records their response. Adobe Podcast allows simple editing so the final product reads as a coherent audio reflection rather than a raw stream of consciousness.
Peer-to-Peer Reflection Interview: Two students who worked on different projects interview each other, asking one another to walk through their process, their struggles, and what they would do differently. This format adds the dimension of active listening and follow-up questioning, and it mirrors the collaborative intellectual culture we want to build in the classroom.
Semester Conclusion Reflection Prompts
Assessment Tip: For semester reflections, consider grading on the depth and specificity of the reflection rather than on audio quality — though the Adobe Podcast enhancement will handle most quality concerns automatically. Students who reference specific moments, cite their own work, and demonstrate changed thinking are demonstrating exactly the metacognitive habits the assignment is designed to build.
Assignment Three: The Community Voice Project — Capturing Stories Beyond the Classroom
The third assignment is the most ambitious and the most directly civic in its orientation. Inspired by the StoryCorps model — which invites students to interview loved ones and community members, uploading recordings with one tap to the Library of Congress — this assignment asks students to document the lived experience, expertise, or perspective of a community member outside the school. In the context of an Advanced Government or Social Studies course, this might mean interviewing a local elected official, a longtime Fayette County resident about changes they have witnessed in civic life, a civil servant who administers local programs, or a community organizer working on a current issue.
The Pedagogical Purpose
Civic education lives or dies by its connection to authentic civic life. When students interview a community member, they are not just practicing interview skills — they are building the muscle of genuine civic curiosity, the ability to engage with a perspective different from their own, and the recognition that civic knowledge is distributed across a community, not only housed in textbooks or classrooms. The oral history tradition, from the USHMM’s preservation of Holocaust testimony to StoryCorps’ democratic archive, is built on this insight: voices matter, and the act of preserving them is itself a civic act.
Assignment Structure
Connecting to Lexington-Fayette County Civic Life
For classes in Fayette County, there are particularly rich partnership opportunities here. CivicLex regularly hosts events and conversations with local civic actors; the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government has staff across departments who engage with schools; and local organizations working on housing, transportation, public health, and environmental policy can all serve as interview sites. The interview assignment becomes a bridge between the theoretical frameworks of a Government course — separation of powers, civic participation, policy implementation — and the actual texture of how those frameworks play out in our city.
Students who complete this assignment frequently report that it is the most memorable learning experience of the year. There is something that happens when a community member looks a student in the eye (or speaks directly into a phone) and tells them something true about how civic life actually works that no simulation or reading can replicate. The Adobe Podcast enhancement means that recording becomes something the student is proud to present, not embarrassed by.
Putting It Together: A Progression Across the Year
These three assignments work particularly well as a developmental progression. The Mentor Portrait, which involves someone the student already knows and trusts, is a lower-stakes entry point into the interview format — it builds the skills of question preparation, active listening, and audio submission before the stakes feel high. The End-of-Project Reflection, which turns the format inward, develops metacognitive habits and comfort with self-narration. The Community Voice Project, which reaches outward into the civic world, represents the full realization of those combined skills in an authentically public context.
Across all three, Adobe Podcast serves as a reliable backend that removes the technical barriers without removing the intellectual ones. The platform does not make the interview easier to conduct; it makes the product easier to share. That distinction matters: the hard work — the preparation, the listening, the synthesis — remains squarely with the student.
A Few Practical Notes Before You Launch
The Archive We Are Building
StoryCorps has spent more than two decades arguing, convincingly, that every person’s story matters and that the act of listening is itself a form of honor. The USHMM has built one of the most important archives in the world on the premise that eyewitness testimony is irreplaceable evidence. Neither institution is precious about methodology; what they share is a conviction that capturing voices is worth the effort.
Our classrooms can be part of that tradition. When students record a mentor, reflect on their own learning out loud, or document what a community member knows about civic life in Fayette County, they are building something that did not exist before. The Adobe Podcast workflow makes that building accessible without making it trivial; the work still requires genuine preparation, genuine listening, and genuine thinking.
That, ultimately, is what I want my students to take from this: the tools are here, the tradition is here, and the community is here. The question is whether we are willing to listen carefully enough to do justice to what we find.
Resources Referenced in This Post
Adobe Express highlights templates and skills for educators to find inspiration for activities. Be sure to try new challenges each month inside the app. As part of the Adobe Creative Educators (ACE) group I share these activities each month and use them in my classroom. Also learn more from the Adobe Live: K-12 Education Edition Weekly Live Chats on YouTube
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The Special Education Achievement Gap: Why Students With Disabilities Fall Behind (and What Teachers Can Do)
Three compounding system failures — not student ability — drive the special education achievement gap. Here's what the data shows and what teachers can actually do about it.
Around 30% of France’s teachers strike in protest against job cuts and low wages
As many as 30% of teachers in France walked off the job on Tuesday to protest against job…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #classclosures #FSU #MinistryofEducation #Paris #primaryeducation #secondaryeducation
https://www.europesays.com/france/1107/
The Museum Is Already in Your Classroom: Free Art Resources Every Teacher Should Know
One of the quiet pleasures of teaching is the moment a student looks at a painting and starts asking questions you didn’t assign. That moment doesn’t happen by accident; it happens because the art is there, on the wall or the screen, doing what great art has always done: demanding a response.
The good news is that some of the world’s most important art collections have made it remarkably easy for teachers to bring that experience into their classrooms, at no cost. Here is a rundown of the resources I’ve used to build up the digital and physical art library in my STEAM Humanities Co-Lab.
The Art Institute’s online collection is genuinely impressive in scale and usability. Thousands of works are available in high resolution under open licensing, meaning you can download, project, print, and use them in classroom materials without jumping through copyright hoops. Their educator resources include lesson plans and thematic image sets, which are particularly useful if you teach art history alongside literature or social studies. I’ve pulled Seurat, Hopper, and Wood from their collection for units on American identity and the Great Depression.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA’s educator resources lean into contemporary and modern art in ways that pair beautifully with twentieth-century history and literature. Their online portal includes curated collections, artist profiles, and classroom-ready discussion prompts. The image library is searchable by theme, medium, and time period, so you can build a visual arc through modernism without having to hunt image by image. MoMA has also hosted free educator events and professional development, so it’s worth checking their calendar if you’re looking for something beyond the digital toolkit.
The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
The NGA is one of the most educator-friendly institutions in the country. Their open-access image library includes tens of thousands of works available for educational use, and the NGA’s dedicated educator resources page includes curriculum connections organized by subject and grade level. Portrait painting, landscape, and American history are particular strengths here. I’ve used their collection extensively for primary source pairings in Advanced Government, setting political portraits alongside contemporary documents to get students reading images the way they read text.
For world history and World Literature courses, the National Gallery in London is indispensable. Their collection spans seven centuries of European painting, and their online tools allow you to zoom into brushwork at a level of detail that changes how students think about craft and intention. The NG’s teaching resources are organized around themes like power, religion, trade, and identity; those categories map naturally onto both social studies and ELA frameworks.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
The Met’s Open Access initiative is one of the most significant things any museum has done for educators in recent memory. More than 400,000 works are available for free download and unrestricted use, including for printed classroom materials. The collection spans cultures and centuries in ways that make it the single most versatile source I use. If you teach globally, which a World Literature or AP Human Geography-adjacent course demands, the Met has something for nearly every unit.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
SFMOMA is a strong resource specifically for twentieth and twenty-first century art, photography, and design. Their online collection includes works you won’t find duplicated elsewhere, and their educator materials are grounded in visual thinking strategies (VTS) that help students develop the habit of close looking. If you teach media literacy, design thinking, or contemporary issues alongside the arts, SFMOMA’s resources are worth bookmarking.
The Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
The Getty is one of the most generous institutions in the world when it comes to open access. Their Open Content Program makes hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images available for download and unrestricted use, including for printed classroom materials, and the quality is exceptional. The collection spans antiquities, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and European paintings, which means the Getty is particularly valuable if you teach classical history, the Renaissance, or the history of photography alongside literature. What sets the Getty apart for classroom teachers is the depth of their contextual materials; each work comes with provenance information, conservation notes, and curatorial essays that can anchor a close-reading exercise or serve as a model text for analytical writing. I’ve used their illuminated manuscript collection for units connecting medieval Europe to questions of literacy, power, and the transmission of knowledge, and their photography archive is genuinely unmatched for a twentieth-century visual culture unit.
The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
The Whitney’s focus is narrow by design, and that specificity is exactly what makes it useful. The collection covers American art from the twentieth century forward, with particular depth in modernism, abstraction, and contemporary work by living artists. Their online collection is searchable and includes curatorial notes that give students real analytical vocabulary for talking about American visual culture. The Whitney’s educator resources lean into social and political themes, which pairs naturally with history and civics courses; their materials around artists like Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Jasper Johns connect artistic movements to the broader American story in ways that complement rather than duplicate what the NGA or Met offer. I’ve found the Whitney most useful when a unit needs a distinctly American lens on the twentieth century, particularly when I want students to see how art responds to cultural upheaval rather than simply reflecting it.
The Underrated Secret: Educator Email Lists
Here is something I don’t hear enough teachers talk about: sign up for the educator email lists for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art (Washington). Both institutions periodically offer educators the chance to request high-quality printed reproductions of works from their collections, often at poster size, suitable for framing or laminating. These aren’t inkjet printouts; they’re the kind of reproductions that actually belong on a classroom wall. I’ve received several this way, and they now hang in my Humanities Co-Lab alongside digital displays. A framed Winslow Homer or a laminated Cassatt doesn’t just decorate a room; it signals to students that what happens in here is worth looking at carefully.
How I’ve Used These Resources
Building the STEAM Humanities Co-Lab has been a multi-year project of slow accumulation. Digital art (projected through the classroom display or embedded in Canvas materials) pulls from the Met, the NGA, and the Art Institute most heavily. Physical copies, the ones on the walls and in the binders students handle during close-looking exercises, come from a mix of educator mailings, high-quality prints ordered through the museums’ own shops, and laminated downloads sized for display.
The goal was never to replicate a museum; it was to make sure that visual culture is part of the air students breathe in the room. Art history doesn’t live only in an art history class. A portrait of Louis XIV belongs in a unit on absolutism. A Dorothea Lange photograph belongs in a unit on the New Deal. A Kara Walker silhouette belongs in a conversation about memory and power. These collections make that kind of teaching possible for any teacher with a printer and a few hours to explore.
Start with one institution, sign up for the newsletters, and let the collection grow over time. Your walls will thank you.
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Should financial literacy be mandatory in schools?
By Fiona Blackwood
In an increasingly complex financial world of buy-now-pay-later schemes, scams, and social media marketing, there are renewed calls for financial literacy to become a mandatory part of the school curriculum.
#SecondaryEducation #Education #PublicSchools #PrivateSchools #FinancialPlanning #FionaBlackwood
Compulsory secondary education introduced in Estonia; schools struggle to adapt to changes https://www.byteseu.com/1649042/ #CompulsoryEducation #EDUCATION #Estonia #Featured #HighSchool #SecondaryEducation
Sáng 9/11, lễ khởi công xây dựng trường phổ thông nội trú liên cấp Tiểu học & THCS diễn ra đồng loạt tại các xã biên giới, được truyền hình trực tiếp và trực tuyến #giáodục #biêngiới #xâydựng #chínhTrị #BoardingSchools #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #BorderCommunes
https://www.europesays.com/2451117/ More high school diplomas, but ethnic educational gap widening in Estonia | News #education #EducationalGap #Eesti #estonia #SecondaryEducation #Uudised
Commission brings EU teachers to ITER
Fusion energy is a scientific challenge with powerful potential. In this spirit, the EU is investing not only…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #energypolicy #energyresearch #Latvia #LV #nuclearfusion #Nucleartechnology #scienceeducation #scientificresearch #secondaryeducation #teachingmaterials
https://www.newsbeep.com/133506/
Elementary education, artificial intelligence among new RSU degree programs https://www.byteseu.com/1302888/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bachelor'sDegrees #CameronUniversity #DegreeProgram #EducationCurriculum #ElementaryEducation #InformationTechnologyDegree #NursingPrograms #OklahomaStateUniversity #RogersStateUniversity #SecondaryEducation #students #SusanWillis
How unexpected friendships formed in the garden bring joy to ageing
By Johanna Marie
Joan French, 92, has been spending time in the garden of her aged care home with much younger company. Life experience and shared interests make good fodder for conversation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/vegetable-garden-bringing-joy-to-elderly-residents/105624348
#Ageing #Gardening #AgedCare #SecondaryEducation #JohannaMarie
Artificial intelligence is revolutionising classroom learning but will it help or hinder students?
Adrian Camm’s “digital twin” is uncanny, down to the voice and twitching eyebrows. The website chatbot means the…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #aiinclassrooms #aiineducation #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #Education #primaryeducation #schooling #secondaryeducation #students #teaching #Technology #university
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/64594/
NDIS-registered beekeeping program has school students buzzing
By Courtney Wilson
A couple who started a business to help their daughter's eczema now manage 450 hives and run inclusive beekeeping programs for schools and NDIS participants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/inclusive-beekeeping-family-workshop-ndis/105626228
#Beekeeping #PeopleWithDisability #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #CourtneyWilson
How should kids be taught to write better? The answer might surprise you
By Conor Duffy
New resources launched by Australia's Education Research Organisation will arm all teachers with the skills to teach writing.
#Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #ConorDuffy
Court stops bid to keep Sydney private school for males students only
By Tony Ibrahim
The Supreme Court says a 162-year-old school originally for male students in Sydney's inner west can now accept females, following backlash from some alumni.
Heritage-listed prison building set to become Montessori school
By Emile Pavlich, Rebecca Norman, and Fiona Parker
The Old Castlemaine Gaol in Central Victoria has been purchased by an alternative education provider and will become a secondary school.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/old-castlemaine-gaol-to-become-montessori-school/105243368
#SecondaryEducation #EmilePavlich #RebeccaNorman # #FionaParker
The outback city with 3,500 students but no public school bus
By Maddie Nixon
With no public school bus, 3,500 Mount Isa students dodge heatwaves and crime on their way to school. After decades of lobbying, families are hopeful for solutions.
#PublicTransport #SecondaryEducation #PrimaryEducation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #RuralandRemoteCommunities #AntisocialBehaviour #MaddieNixon
Survived a first whole week at school. Already been lectured at (not quite sure that's the right verb, but that's what I'm leaning towards) about the next three sets of exams that are coming up within the next 6 weeks - Yr9/Yr8/*Second* set of Yr11 mocks this academic year. These poor kids. Us poor teachers. Sorry - very overwhelmed by workload, already. Just me? #Teaching #Teacher #SecondaryEducation #Edutooter #EnglishTeacher #GCSE @edutooters
Approximately nine in ten children who left care (and aged 18-23 years in January 2024) were in substantial employment or enrolled in education for each of the years 2019-2022, similar to all children
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
Over half (56%) of 25-64-year-olds in Q2 2024 had a third level education
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-eda/educationalattainmentthematicreport2024/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=Educational+Attainment+Thematic+Report+2024
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
I have survived an 8 week half term! I feel triumphant. And ever so slightly tired. #Teaching #UKTeachers #Education #SecondaryEducation #edutooter @edutooters
There are a lot of proprietary tools to make screen video recordings. When you want to make a tutorial for users, Or you want to make a video of yourself using a webcam. Adobe Premiere Pro is a tool that also shares YOUR data with Adobe. Why not use a #foss #floss tool like Open Broadcasting Studio OBS (https://obsproject.com/). #HigherEducation #EducationalChallenges #EUEducation #SecondaryEducation #LearningJourney #CreatingOpportunities #TakingAction #SelfDevelopment #OvercomingStruggles #C
52% of Irish adults aged 25-69 reported participating in lifelong learning in 2022
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-aes/adulteducationsurvey2022/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=AES22
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
Over nine in ten 2021 graduates in employment or education one year after graduation
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-feo/furthereducationoutcomes-graduationyear2021/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=FEI21
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
Over 40% of new entrants who did not progress in higher education in 2021 were re-enrolled in education after one year
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-heo/highereducationoutcomes-nonprogression2021/?utm_source=MA&utm_medium=MA&utm_campaign=education
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
I'm very lucky to be going to spend the day tomorrow at one of the UK's most famous and prestigious private schools. I'm just fascinated by how they do things - and how similar or different it is to a state school education, and what we can actually magpie and use in our own setting. Any profound/insightful questions I should be asking...? #Education #Teaching #Edutooter #SecondaryEducation @edutooters
Over half (54%) of 25-64-year-olds in 2023 have a third level education
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-eda/educationalattainmentthematicreport2023/?utm_source=MA&utm_medium=MA&utm_campaign=EduAttRep2023
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
I described in the past that the skills shortage will persist for an uncomfortably long time. The shortage is essentially universal but in some professions the shortage worries me more than in others. The fact that we are running out of teachers is terrible and has terrible downstream consequences in our knowledge economy.
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#education #secondaryeducation #teachertraining #demographics #skillsshortage
Of the children in care enrolled at primary or post primary school, 6% repeated one or more school years compared with just under 2% for all children
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-eaacc/educationalattendanceandattainmentofchildrenincare2018-2023/?utm_source=Mast&utm_medium=Mast&utm_campaign=education
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
Map of the Week: Secondary School Education - find out more at http://wrld.at/motw268 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #education #secondaryeducation #learning #children #school #secondaryschool #inequality
Marymount Univ in Arlington, VA announced its proposal to eliminate 9 #undergraduate #majors & 1 graduate program. In statement from univ board of trustees, the school announced elimination of its bachelor’s degree programs for #art, #economics, #English, #history, #math, #philosophy, #sociology, #SecondaryEducation, #theology and #ReligiousStudies, and Master’s degree program for English and #humanities.These courses of study include the background of how many of us - raise your hands - & WTF!
The #beamline for #schools is one of the most fantastic opportunities #secondaryEducation #students can get: Do your #science research at an #accelerator! Co-organised by #CERN and #DESY successful students can do their own experiment, themselves (with help if needed). So much fun, and every year such great projects!
You can read more about it here: https://beamline-for-schools.web.cern.ch #outreach #science #ScienceMastodon #STEM #physics #school #sciencecommunication #scicomm
Over half (53%) of 25-64 year olds in 2022 have a third level education
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-eda/educationalattainmentthematicreport2022/?utm_source=Tw&utm_medium=Tw&utm_campaign=EDA
#CSOIreland #Ireland #EducationalAttainment #Education #PrimaryEducation #SecondaryEducation #HigherEducation
