Carole Ford

New polling: 60% say Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom. People want cooperation across the UK, not more division. Read more from the latest polling published today: scotlandinunion.co.uk/post/new-poll-…

@karlmehta Maximum heart rate

Scientists found the exercise that turns your body into a fat-burning machine in 6 weeks. It's not HIIT. It's not lifting. It's barely even "hard." 99% of people in the gym are doing the opposite. Here's what they found: 🧵

Zelensky is a genius. He started his 1v1 meeting with Trump by thanking Melania Trump for sending Putin a letter asking for Ukraine's children to be returned. Zelensky then gave trump a letter for his wife from the First Lady of Ukraine. Trump was pretty mild after that.

@drchriscarson UK trained doctors owe the public a great deal. The cost of their university education is many times higher than the fees they paid. I support higher salaries for doctors but their achievement is not all on them.

Hey resident doctors, remember this: You owe the NHS nothing You owe the public nothing You owe the Trusts nothing You worked hard to become highly qualified and skilled professionals, it was all you You are owed a fair wage and NOT a pay cut! Same for consultants Strike hard

@SonyaDouglas It was popular in Glasgow primary schools in the late 60s, early 70s. My cousin had to work very hard to overcome the handicap of phonetic spelling. Education is still bedevilled by teaching strategies which are introduced despite the total lack of evidence to support them.

I’d never heard of this failed experiment in teachers lying to children. No follow up, no apology, just leaving kids to pick up the pieces in their own lives while the educationalists moved on. We’re in danger of going that again with gender ideology. apple.news/AJr0cw_7ISe24Y…

@afneil Absolutely agree. Not only a comprehensive historical education but also chronological, unlike the scatter gun approach in the current Scottish curriculum. Pupils can’t tell you if the Vikings invaded before or after the battle of Culloden.

Perhaps they didn’t teach Scottish history in your private Bearsden school but in my state primary and grammar schools in Paisley in the 1950s and 1960s there was extensive teaching of Scottish history. I learned about the Picts and the Scots, Viking invasions, Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, how our King became the British King, the guarantees for Scottish religion, law and education in the Act of Union, the Scottish role in the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution (and slavery!) and Glasgow as 2nd City of the Empire. And much more.

@LesleyRiddoch @IndyForumScot Absolute nonsense. I learned Scottish chronological history from primary one onwards, from Skara Brae to WWII.

‘Scottish history only became part of curriculum in 2009. Extraordinary. Pushed back by our own institutions. But once the ice is broken, things really change.’ Stuart McHardy at @IndyForumScot

I am excited to be working with @dnleslie on the Talking Scottish Education podcast and having already had some good conversations with several guests I hope that it will make a good contribution to the educational debate in Scotland #talkscoted

@RhysWilliamsTV @Bruce_NextLevel @CaroleFord1 if you read one twitter thread today, please read this. Reform Scotland is making waves in Scottish education. Please sign a light on this issue too.

@michaelpforan Your contributions on behalf of women and rationality are very much appreciated. Thank you for your polite persistence in the face of toxic intimidation.

2024 was a tough year for me for many reasons. Here’s to a New Year with hope for the future!

I think JKRowling deserves a statue in Edinburgh for her services to women and girls, for her commitment to biological reality as opposed to wilfully mistaken ideology, and for her relentless civility and logical argument in the face of irrational hate and toxicity.

@MrMcEnaney I don’t care one jot about school blazers but I do care about a Scottish govt which appears to care more about this than the poorer performance of disadvantaged children or the serious disciplinary situation in classrooms. Why are they concerning themselves with such trivia?

And *of course* the Tories are going for a bit of faux-outrage over advice on school uniforms. It's not as if there are loads of proper issues in education to be dealt with or anything.

So we ban Lance Armstrong for taking drugs which will give him a small but important advantage over his male rivals because it’s cheating but we let 51 year old male Valentina Petrillo have a huge advantage with no issue at all against female athletes! Why is this being allowed?

⬇️My mother once told me she could spot a teacher at 100 yards. I scoffed. She checked out the people in the street and pointed to a guy and said ‘Him’. Reader, I knew him and he was a teacher. I did not tell her she was right. Omniscient mothers need no encouragement.

@robbystarbuck Completing homework results in better exam grades, particularly in content heavy subjects like maths, science, languages. You take your choice to do it or not, but be aware of the reason why teachers issue it. It would make their lives easier not to bother.

My hot parenting take: Homework is stupid. Sending your kid to school for 7-9 hours a day and then sending them home with 1-2 hours of homework is like your job sending you home to work from home everyday after a full shift. 7-9 hrs/day of school is already too much imo.

@stuartphysics @MrMcEnaney Exactly.

@MrMcEnaney But how many are dual presentations with N5 Maths? An almost free extra N5 for some.

One of the most noticeable recent trends at National 5 level has been the increasing popularity of Applications of Maths. heraldscotland.com/news/24501341.…

@MrBoothY6 Volare

Tonight I’m having my dinner in a restaurant that shares its name with the greatest Eurovision song of all time. Ten points if you get the name right, nine if you give me a stupid guess that makes me laugh. None for Gretchen Weiners.

I could watch Alex Yee winning the triathlon gold medal until the cows come home. Pure determination and unbelievable stamina. What the Olympics are all about. Not men punching women in a boxing ring - horrifying. Shame on Morocco and the IOC.

@MathewHulbert @LibDems No. It looks like hubris and that is very off putting to the electorate. Jo Swanson claiming she could be the next PM was a definite vote loser in 2019.

Given our increased size, there's an argument that we @LibDems should also have not just spokespeople but our own Shadow Cabinet. Thoughts? #LibDems

The voting figures in this GE are entirely misleading. In England and Wales people voted tactically so get the Tories out. In Scotland we voted tactically to get the SNP out. The voting percentages are meaningless but the voters got the result they wanted. Democracy in action.