@reader_mary @RachelReevesMP @EduPolicyInst @JoJoHutchinson Congrats on the new role, I'm sure we will bump into each other again soon - looks like you're at a briefing with some of my colleagues today!
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Stats and stuff for @FFTEduDatalab
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Education and life expectancy: 30 year-olds in the UK who left with the lowest education levels have a life expectancy 4 years lower than those educated to the highest levels.
Read more in our new report for the @HealthFdn: epi.org.uk/publications-a… #FutureHealthInquiry
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Hearing all about how @DataKindUK volunteers worked with @Welcome_Hudds to identify people who might become dependent on food banks early👏👏#dataforgood
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Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation theguardian.com/culture/2019/n…
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@philipnye 😂 I'm actually with a friend who did environment science and knows enough about geology to clarify that these jokes aren't funny.
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‘Oh God,’ the voice on the tannoy croaked, panicking. ‘We’re all going to die. Unless...,’ a note of hope mingled with the desperation, ‘Unless there’s a statistician in the stadium...?’
Jon Hutchinson@jon_hutchinson_
SERENDIPITY: a short story Today I was teaching Y5 about plotting data on line graphs &said overly enthusiastically: "This is genuinely a skill that you're really likely to use in a future career. It's really useful." The children amused me, nodding and smiling, patronisingly.
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@NASA Gladys West leveraged her mathematical and programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth. This was used as the foundation for the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS): bbc.co.uk/news/world-438…
#BlackHistoryMonth
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You’re invited to watch history unfold! Tomorrow marks the first #AllWomanSpacewalk as @Astro_Christina & @Astro_Jessica venture into the vacuum of space to replace a failed power controller. Tune in:
📆 Friday, Oct. 18
🕟 6:30am ET
📺 nasa.gov/live
❓#AskNASA
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'It is those “left behind” areas, where underperformance at school is entrenched, that have been much less served by the expansion of free schools'.
EPI's @natalieperera1 writes for @Prospect_UK, following the publication of our new free schools report: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/has-t…
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Lovely stuff from @EduPolicyInst on Free Schools. Is their high performance yet another example of the London effect? epi.org.uk/publications-a…
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@Jenni_ela @IOPDiversity You really can't ever leave. I spend more time working on IOP stuff now then I did when they employed me!
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.@FFTEduDatalab have dropped a whole series of posts on Progress 8 today. Start your binge-reading now.
FFT Education Datalab@FFTEduDatalab
New posts Two new posts look at possible solutions to problems with Progress 8: taking account of context, and changing the points awarded to different qualifications ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2019/10/soluti… ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2019/10/soluti…
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BREAKING: SCHOOLS WITH HIGH-ATTAINING INTAKES ATTAIN HIGHLY. MORE AS WE GET IT kentlive.news/news/kent-news…
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For #DayoftheGirl2019, we revisit @KateBV's blog where she asks if DfE absence statistics really tell the whole story, and warns against downplaying the reality of #periodpoverty: buff.ly/2IECINg
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@NicolasBosetti @FFTEduDatalab Thanks for the mention! Did you see the piece that @JohnPeterJerrim wrote about how London would have done in the PISA rankings? Fits in well with your point on international assessment ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2019/10/if-lon…
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I wrote a piece about some of the striking analysis that colleagues at @FFTEduDatalab have produced on how disadvantaged pupils fare in London schools 👇
Centre for London@centreforlondon
London’s schools need attention argues @NicolasBosetti in his latest blog, highlighting that London government has no power over education. Find out more: centreforlondon.org/blog/londons-s…
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@EALACADEMY @FFTEduDatalab Good question! I'm not sure. If I get a moment I'll have a look (and maybe steal the idea for another blog post...)
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@FFTEduDatalab Fascinating stuff. I wonder if there is negative Birmingham effect for Pakistani students?
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Is the ‘London effect’ stronger for Pakistani students? ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2019/10/is-the…
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'It is educational apartheid': are we finally ready to end private schools? theguardian.com/books/2019/sep…
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@undertheraedar @mhclg Here's my updated #IoD2019 mapper too - dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod_index.…, which supplements the main stats release and is one of various new mapping resources, including @undertheraedar's excellent maps.
All accessible here - gov.uk/guidance/engli…
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Imagine if we made teamwork easier, so researchers have the freedom to be creative, work differently and take risks 👩🔬 🤝 👨🔬
Help us #ReimagineResearch wellc.me/2AABs9G
#ResearchCulture
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