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For those of us of a certain age, this is a superb evocation of the nature and iniquities of the grammar school system. I was a grammar school boy myself but let's never forget the huge social and educational progress represented by comprehensive schooling
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026m…
David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89 theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
I'm stopping posting on here for obvious reasons...but I'm on bluesky #FE
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Complete #Post16Educator archive now online.
post16educator.org.uk
@FENews @FEWeek @LSRNetwork #UCU #NEU @ARPCEresearch @HudCRES @SEA_journal @LongRevolution @rapal_uk @NATECLA @JoyfulFE @AdultEd100 @SAEL_AS @WorkingClassCol @L_Organising
Post-16 Educator: complete archive now online.
General Educator (Iss. 1 - 67, Spring 1988 - Nov. 2000), becoming Post-16 Educator in Jan. 2001.
post16educator.org.uk/
Archive | Post-16 Educator
A unique resource for #post16 teachers, activists, researchers, students.
Pin badge. Bournville Day Continuation College made by Fattorini & Sons, Birmingham #histed #FE #bournville
25 years ago! Aged 19 & NEET I enrolled in this degree at my local college. Life changing #FE #FurtherEducation
A book I always find myself returning to #FE #FurtherEducation
HE graduation-2002- Solihull College #FurtherEducation #FE
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now on bluesky @furtheredhistory.bsky.social
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Protests were held in London #OnThisDay 2010 in opposition to planned spending cuts to further education and an increase of the cap on tuition fees by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. The protest involved between 30,000 and 50,000 demonstrators.
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#MapOnATuesday We recently found this Birmingham city centre map in a City of Birmingham Information Department 1972 Guide to Birmingham. Wonder how many of those buildings still exist in 2024. Reference - LP 83.4 @LibraryofBham

ALT A map. Title in the top right corner is Birmingham The City Centre. A series of white lines running across and down the page highlighting streets and roads in the city centre. Many of the throughfares are named. A series of numbered circles across the entirety of the map. Two boxes in the bottom right corner of the map. The one at the top is titled Hotels and beneath this a list of hotels. The box beneath this is headed Public Buildings, etc and runs to 47 listings. These correspond to the numbered circles on the map. A large rectangular box in the top left of the map headed Information Department with an arrow pointing to a location recorded on the map as Victoria Square.
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Some haven't liked the term 'decimation' used by @Samfr- as he says it is accurate on 16-18 funding. But overall college income drop since 2010 is 3 times worse (30%) & for adults it is 6 times worse (60%). Not sure of the words for that - unbelievable? Criminal? #LoveOurColleges
Slightly away from FE but for fans of Brutalist Architecture and Noise...My track inspired by Madin's Birmingham Central Library (using a field recording of its demolition) features on this digital compilation from Industrial Coast industrialcoast.bandcamp.com…
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Replying to @hartlepoolfe
@hartlepoolfe is 175 years old & we have loads of artefacts from down the years.
Love this from 2009 focusing on our superb fabrication & welding curriculum & facilities which are still going strong today 😍
One for @FESkillsHistory
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New on Substack, my post on slum clearance and municipal housing in Birmingham before the First World War:
open.substack.com/pub/munici…
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Gravelly Hill Interchange, 'Spaghetti Junction', Birmingham; designed by Sir Owen Williams and Partners, built 1968-72
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Photo: Simon Phipps
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NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows just how straightforward our ancient universities can be wonkhe.com/blogs/higher-educ…
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Post-16 Educator
Iss. 117 Oct.-Dec. 2024
Further & Higher Education 2024: which side Are we on?
Website: post16Educator.org.uk
with Gus John, Stephen Lambert, Tom White, Lynn Senior, Kevin Orr, Eddie Playfair, Michael Hepworth, Jane Lethbridge, Colin Waugh


























