BREAKING: Some good news for once
#Nazanin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her temporary release from prison in Iran extended by 2 weeks & her case is recommended for clemency. Fingers crossed she will be home in London soon with Richard & Gabriella!
@thesundaytimes
@FreeNazanin
BREAKING Full Independent Sage report to be published today will say it is NOT safe for schools to re-open on June 1. Re-opening risks pushing the R rate above one, say scientists led by former government chief adviser David King
NEW: 300 teenagers who missed their offers due to the A level exam marking fiasco have been given places
@UniofOxford
. Many are from disadvantaged backgrounds. This takes Oxford’s state school entry this year to a record breaking 67.8%. So proud of my old university! 👏👏👏
A group of 6300 people including over 1100 doctors, nurses and health practitioners has this morning sent a letter to NHS Chiefs of the four nations and ministers urging that the word ‘woman’ be reinstated in NHS communications on women’s health
@CanSG_org
Exclsve: Primary school teacher fights legal test case after suspension for refusing to call a female pupil by a boy’s name or use male pronouns, opposing school’s ‘transgender affirming’ policy
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
@Transgendertrd
@christianlegal
‘Life for girls is worse than it was 50 years ago’ - head of one of Cambridge’s two women only colleges calls for a public enquiry to tackle the crisis of the deep unhappiness of young women including students. Chilling talk with
@dorotheabyrne
@thetimes
The 'Independent Sage' committee chaired by former chief scientific adviser Sir David King, has carried out modelling which shows the risk to children is halved if ministers delay their planned school opening date by two weeks.
NEW: Fascinating talking to this teacher about the dilemma that led up to a colleague being called a transphobe and having water poured on their chair. He quit his job. Story
@thesundaytimes
@SafeSchools_UK
NEW: ‘My headmistress sister killed herself because of an Ofsted report.’
Ruth Perry, 53, a mum of two, died after her school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate.
Time to reform Ofsted? Thank you Julia for speaking to me
@thetimes
@bphillipsonMP
LOVED talking to the football legend
@GNev2
who is setting up a new university with his mates from the Class of 92. Six degrees available & you get a personal coach like the lads had
@ManUtd
with Sir Alex Ferguson
@thesundaytimes
@LancasterUni
NEW: A mother’s campaign to lift the lid on graphic sex education lessons. Clare’s child was taught about ‘sex positivity’. Porn, gender unicorns, who is teaching RSE and what is taught? My story
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
@BayswaterGroup
@Transgendertrd
BREAKING: Children are being put on part-time timetables as teachers struggle to control bad behaviour after the pandemic the chief inspector
@amanda_spielman
will warn in her annual report on Tuesday
I'll have more on my story
@timesradio
at 8.10 am
@Ofstednews
@teamsquarepeg
NEW Announcement on
#Alevelgrade
fiasco expected today. Speculation growing that there will be a U turn and teacher assessed grades could be accepted after all.
@gavinwilliamson
@ofqual
now under huge pressure
Families with children at the Tavistock gender identity clinic compile list of doctors who referred children for puberty blocking drugs to send to GMC for possible investigation. Front page
@thetimes
tomorrow
@SafeSchools_UK
@genspect
Parents, teachers, psychologists & doctors join forces in new group to offer alternative to transgender guidance in schools
@safeschools_uk
@thesundaytimes
That gives more time for a track and trace operation to be set up. Paul Whiteman
@nahtnews
: 'Support for a fixed date for school return is vanishing. What is needed is local flexibility to open up to more pupils, informed by evidence of what is happening in their own local area'.
NEW Tory peer
@Baroness_Nichol
says she is ‘sad, very sad’ over Booker prize row but she is not deterred from campaigning against ‘inappropriate’ sex education materials to schools
@thesundaytimes
@SafeSchools_UK
A judge has raised the spectre of police behaving like the Gestapo after a man was visited at work and questioned about allegedly transphobic tweets.
@wearefaircop
@thetimes
She likes chocolate cake, Hamleys toy shop and wants to start school tomorrow. Gabriella, 5, has had her first weekend with her dad for 3 years. Her biggest wish now is for mum Nazanin to be freed to join them.
@FreeNazanin
@thesundaytimes
BREAKING: Universities are facing a wave of strikes which could start before Xmas as
@ucu
ballots members over pensions cuts, with possible dates for industrial action to be drawn up tomorrow. University chiefs says action would be ‘devastating’
Physics tycoon David Harding gives £100m to his old university to help the world's outstanding youngsters study.
@cambridge_uni
plans to spend £1m to help poorer and ethnic minority children get places Story
@thetimes
BREAKING: Biggest teaching union announces it will poll its members for strike action after indicative ballot reveals 86% prepared to walk out for more pay
@NEUnion
@cyclingkev
@MaryBoustedNEU
BREAKING: Where
@ofqual
moderated grades are higher than teacher assessed grades teenagers can keep the higher of the two grades.
@ofqual
apologises for distress caused. Teacher assessed grades to replace moderated grades for A level and GCSE in major U turn.
BREAKING
@gilliankeegan
publishes details of RSE review. "Parents should be able to view curriculum & can ask to see material especially in relation to sensitive topics." RSHE teaching must be factual and not present contested views on sensitive topics as fact
@SafeSchools_UK
"Student nurses stepped up to join the frontline of the NHS, months before they were due to graduate. The posts were advertised as 6 month paid placements, but they have now been told their contracts will be terminated in July."
@goodlawproject
calling on nurses to come forward
More than 50,000 have now asked for student nurses to be treated with basic decency.
@GoodLawProject
has arranged for Bruce Carr QC to advise (for free) but we still need nurses to come forward. We need info from you but we don't need to publish your name.
In press conference with
@GavinWilliamson
and he says he only saw the alogorithm from
@ofqual
this weekend! He responds (paraphrase) When we saw this extra data (and the concerns around it) we had to make sure we acted swiftly. Wow so
@ofqual
seems to be being dumped in it!
NEW 30 families with transgender children to lobby government against what they claim is “coerced medicalisation” — propelling children convinced they are the wrong gender towards treatments that risk leaving them infertile
@thesundaytimes
@safeschools_uk
Appalling trolling of
@jk_rowling
as she explains the personal background that has shaped her views in the controversial trans debate. Story
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
Meghan Markle, speaking
@girlup
summit, urges girls to push the world in a 'more inclusive, more just' direction and to translate their convictions into action.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, called on young girls to make their voices louder than ever as they push the world in a "more inclusive, more just, and more empathetic direction."
Parents to call for independent enquiry into schools when
#Cass
report released this week
@SafeSchools_UK
@thetimes
@BayswaterSG
Why do schools let children choose pronouns at four, ask parents
My top story today: the fabulous Azamati wins payout from the world-famous
@OxfordUnion
after being manhandled out of a debate. He is from a poor Ghanaian family & blind and he took on injustice and won.
@thesundaytimes
w/
@Pravina_R
Transgender row engulfs Oxford University - splash in Telegraph this morning as 40 academics sign a letter urging free speech in advance of
@Docstockk
's appearance at Oxford Union later this month
Oops! Teenagers claim another exam howler, this time from
@pearsonedexcel
- some candidates complained that a question about counting calories in a GCSE exam this week could trigger eating disorder sufferers. Story
@thetimes
NEW Parents go to court this week to try to stop children who question their gender getting cross sex hormones as NHS approves them for 16 year olds despite safety fears
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
@BayswaterSG
@MForstater
👇
YES! Prince Harry may live abroad but today he backs UK youth clubs to keep kids off streets & give them a future. Stars & entrepreneurs tell us
@thesundaytimes
why they want £1 blln in budget for dozens more clubs
@theopaphitis
@OnSideYZ
@RishiSunak
NEW Top grammar school for girls reported to inspectors after newsletter sent to 11 year olds promotes images of male sex fetishes & breast surgery. Complaint too that girls on Instagram are exposing their underwear
@SafeSchools_UK
@Ofstednews
@thesundaytimes
Mother sues child gender clinic over treatment for her child as anxiety mounts about controversial hormone treatments for children questioning their gender identity. Story
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
26 Oxford City Councillors
@UniofOxford
support the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in its demands for the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue from Oxford’s High Street and endorse its wider campaign to decolonise Oxford University.
NEW Announcement on
#Alevelgrade
fiasco expected today. Speculation growing that there will be a U turn and teacher assessed grades could be accepted after all.
@gavinwilliamson
@ofqual
now under huge pressure
NEW:Natasha is one of 13 students at Bristol university to kill themselves in recent years. Her parents face
@BristolUni
in court this week. They have spent £120,000 & their pensions. Do unis have a duty of care?
@8RosarioSanchez
@DrRosena
@StudentMindsOrg
Woo! Election bribe? Our analysis of Boris Johnson's multi million pound education cash boost reveals 93% of schools that benefit are in Tory seats. Grammar schools win, schools in north gain little
@angelarayner
@cyclingkev
W/
@tomcalver
@thesundaytimes
.
@Cambridge_uni
announces two year enquiry into its links with the slave trade & whether it should make financial reparation... as universities comes under pressure to show they are doing more to attract BAME students
@thetimes
NEW: Should students in masks be able to demand that one of our top feminist professors be fired? Should the police need to advise her on getting security guards?
@Docstockk
spoke to me about her ordeal
@thesundaytimes
@SafeSchools_UK
Nazanin makes agonising decision to send her daughter home to start school in London. How wonderful it would be if Iran would release Nazanin to join her husband and daughter in their family home
@freeNazanin
'Heart breaking' that innocent British mum Nazanin spends a THIRD Mothers Day behind bars in Iran as her husband delivers 155 bouquets & petition to embassy in London & repeats calls
@thesundaytimes
for her release
@freenazanin
@amnestyuk
@jeremy_hunt
Brilliant interview between Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and
@andy_murray
on
@BBCRadio4
Today programme this morning - especially the bit where Nazanin related how in solitary confinement she watched Andy win Wimbledon on one of the 2 TV channels she was allowed to see
@FreeNazanin
This is so sad. The idea Nazanin has been robbed of her chance of having one more child, a sibling for Gabriella, is heartbreaking. Time for this family to be reunited in London and Nazanin pardoned and released from Iran.
@FreeNazanin
@thetimes
‘My son, 14, touched a girl’s leg and was called a rapist and faced a police interview and expulsion from school’ Talking to this dad was eye opening. Story
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
NEW: Second council withdraws its ‘trans toolkit’ for schools as family tells story of a boy who told teachers he wanted to be called by a girl’s name
@thesundaytimes
@SafeSchools_UK
Olympic star Lady Mary Peters is latest medallist to raise questions about how transgender athletes take part in sports competitions on 'an equal playing field' Story
@thesundaytimes
NEW: When prep schools gave Sophie Winkleman’s children iPads & screens she pulled them out.
Loved talking to the actress, royal & Cambridge grad who is “thrilled” to back a new campaign to ban smartphones for under 16s
@Miss_Snuffy
@UsforThemUK
@thetimes
Black children would do better to listen to Mozart rather than Stormzy says top headteacher
@Miss_Snuffy
. What are the lyrics of grime and rap teaching children? Story
@thesundaytimes
today
NEW This is a mind boggling story of a teacher cleared this week after a porn obsessed pupil accused her of sex crimes. She faced 14 years in jail. Thank you Rachel for being so brave as to give an interview
@thetimes
@SafeSchools_UK
@RealGeoffBarton
Cambridge seeks professor prepared to research issues sensitive to China as
@CommonsForeign
chaired by
@TomTugendhat
prepares to publish damning report on Beijing influence on UK universities. Story
@thesundaytimes
thesundaytimes
Plans to allow people to change their gender by self identifying as a different sex have been scrapped. Front page
@thesundaytimes
today
@SafeSchools_UK
If you read nothing else today please read this
@thesundaytimes
. Brave mum
@pat_sowa
talks about her lovely son Dom. Dom killed himself, age 17. He was gay and had been bullied. His mum backs LGBT and mental health lessons to protect others.
NEW
@NEUnion
was expected to announce new strike dates today but has held off and called on
@gilliankeegan
too accept the recommendations of the STRB - for next year’s pay award. Looks like those recommendations could be interesting!
A flat white & a carrot juice: Richard Ratcliffe's first 'meal' after ending his 15 day hunger strike to free his wife Nazanin, also on hunger strike, from an Iranian jail. He's lost 5% of his weight & was put on an intravenous infusion.
@freenazanin
Final RSE guidance means no child will leave school without lessons on same sex relationships and they should be taught in primary schools says
@DamianHinds
as Labour NP apologises for any offence caused to LGBT community.
@thetimes
@Jessphillips
This statement from Sussex branch of
@ucu
which relates to calls from students, some masked, for Professor Stock to be fired because of her work on transgender issues, has ramped up an already critical situation on campus.
Childhood doesn’t last forever: parents tell me how Covid is robbing our children of rites of passage, from nativity plays to swimming lessons
@thesundaytimes
Why children should learn to sing God Save the Queen, cheer England at cricket & be taught the works of Dead White Men. New book from the thought provoking teachers at Michaela led by
@Miss_Snuffy
So much more to say! Story
@thesundaytimes
@johncatted
And how do you raise daughters to be respectful of men and believe men should have the same rights and opportunities as women? Just as relevant a question in 2019 but one no one is addressing.
“Chipping away at stereotypes from a young age is important." How do you raise your sons to be respectful of women & believe girls should have the same rights & opportunities as they do?
@citronpsych
,
@nakedvix
& Jordan Jones shared their tips.