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Ormiston trust boss Tom Rees to lead inclusion expert panel

Ormiston trust boss Tom Rees to lead inclusion expert panel

Academy trust boss Tom Rees will lead a new expert panel to oversee reforms to make mainstream schools more inclusive as part of the government’s plan to fix the broken system for pupils with special needs. Dame Christine Lenehan, the former director of the Council for Disabled Children, has also been appointed the government’s “strategic advisor” on SEND. She will advise ministers on the next steps for the future of SEND playing “a key role in engaging the sector, including leaders, practitioners, children and families”, the Department for Education said. Rees’ expert advisory group will advise ministers on improving mainstream education experiences for youngsters with SEND “so that all children feel like they belong”. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson said while she “wants the best trusts to grow”, she “knows the current system incentivised some to adopt a competitive, rather than a collaborative model, and others to avoid more challenging communities”. “But that chase for a narrow shadow of excellence, the kind that only succeeds by pushing problems onto others, that ends now.” ‘Schools avoiding challenging …

Conservatives are happier, but liberals lead more psychologically rich lives, research finds

Conservatives are happier, but liberals lead more psychologically rich lives, research finds

A recent study in the Journal of Personality sheds new light on the connection between political views and well-being. The findings indicate that those with more liberal views tend to experience lives filled with psychological richness, marked by diverse and stimulating experiences. While happiness and meaning are associated with conservative values, psychological richness appears to be more common among those with fewer conservative views. Previous research on well-being and political beliefs has largely focused on two primary aspects of a fulfilling life: happiness and meaning. Happiness is often defined by life satisfaction and positive emotions, while meaning involves a sense of purpose or fulfillment. Studies have consistently found that conservative beliefs are associated with higher levels of both happiness and meaning. This connection may be due to factors such as system justification, the belief that societal structures are fair, which can create a stable foundation for feeling content and purposeful. For example, conservatives are generally more likely to see social systems as just and reliable, which might lead to a greater sense of stability and …

Frieze VIP Program Lead by Regional Heads in the US, EMEA, and Asia

Frieze VIP Program Lead by Regional Heads in the US, EMEA, and Asia

Last summer, Frieze surprised the art world by announcing that it was adding two of the biggest art fairs in the US, The Armory Show and Expo Chicago, to its roster of major market events in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seoul.  As Kristell Chade, executive director of Frieze Fairs, told ARTnews recently, that growth lead the art fair organizers to restructure and expand their VIP leadership team. In the past, there had been only one global director of VIP relations. Now, starting with Frieze London, which opens Wednesday, there are regional heads for the US, Europe, and Asia, which Chade said will help Frieze more effectively manage VIP outreach and experiences. Related Articles In 2022, Frieze London’s first VIP day suffered interminably long, seemingly motionless lines that led to frustration for the fair’s most important attendees. As one art advisor in attendance told ARTnews, the situation seemed to result from a faulty or disorganized ticketing system, leading some collectors to threaten to abandon the fair altogether. “It was like waiting for a sneaker drop,” the …

Teacher Development Trust pulls out as lead provider

Teacher Development Trust pulls out as lead provider

More from this theme Recent articles One of the government’s lead providers of national professional qualifications (NPQs) will quit the scheme – claiming its ability to support schools “as effectively and impartially as possible” has been “constrained” by relying on taxpayer cash. Teacher Development Trust (TDT) joint-CEO Gareth Conyard announced the decision, branding the NPQ market “increasingly dysfunctional”, with “unequal relationships” forming between providers and the Department for Education. Schools Week revealed this year that ministers were scaling back their free NPQ programme. Officials were tight-lipped about how many places they would provide, but it’s understood they were capped at just 10,000, down from 40,000 in 2023-24. Calls for review of NPQs TDT has also announced the withdrawal of its bid to deliver the Early Career Framework (ECF), a procurement the government is still considering. Conyard said: “We have felt, increasingly, that by delivering government contracts we have been constrained in our ability to respond to the latest evidence in a nuanced way, and to be a critical friend to the government and others in …

Do All Roads Lead to Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time

Do All Roads Lead to Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time

Pull up the Wikipedia page for Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plas­tic Love,” the 1984 sin­gle now known for re-pop­u­lar­iz­ing the genre of Japan­ese “city pop.” Then click the first of its links (not relat­ed to the lan­guage of the arti­cle itself), which leads to Takeuchi’s own page. If you keep fol­low­ing that same pro­ce­dure, you’ll con­tin­ue on to City Pop, then Japan­ese Pop Music, then Pop­u­lar Music. Keep drilling down, and you’ll pass the very con­cepts of music and sound, then enter the realms of physics, the sci­en­tif­ic method, log­i­cal propo­si­tions, and the phi­los­o­phy of lan­guage. This is one exam­ple pro­vid­ed by the video above from YouTu­ber Not David, which inves­ti­gates whether all roads on Wikipedia even­tu­al­ly lead to phi­los­o­phy. There is, of course, a Wikipedia page about this, called “Get­ting to Phi­los­o­phy.” “Fol­low­ing the first hyper­link in the main text of an Eng­lish Wikipedia arti­cle, and then repeat­ing the process for sub­se­quent arti­cles, usu­al­ly leads to the Phi­los­o­phy arti­cle,” it says. “In Feb­ru­ary 2016, this was true for 97% of all arti­cles on Wikipedia (includ­ing this …

Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds

Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds

Go Ad-Free! Click here to subscribe to PsyPost and support independent science journalism! Racism steals time from people’s lives – possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to advanced aging, observed on a cellular level. Black women who were more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in brain networks involved with rumination and vigilance. We found that this, in turn, was connected to accelerated biological aging. We are neuroscientists who use a variety of approaches, including self-reported data and biological measurements like brain scans, to answer our questions about the effects of stressors on the brain and body. We also use this data to inform the development of interventions to help people cope with this stress. Why it matters Aging is a natural process. However, stress can speed up the biological clock, making people more vulnerable to aging-related diseases, from cardiovascular disease to diabetes and dementia. Epidemiological …

Schumer: ‘Bad case of Groundhog Day’ could lead to shutdown

Schumer: ‘Bad case of Groundhog Day’ could lead to shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned on Tuesday that Congress could be on the brink of a government shutdown because House Republicans “are struggling with a bad case of Groundhog Day” by insisting on adding controversial legislation to a short-term funding bill. “Instead of pursuing bipartisanship, Speaker [Mike] Johnson [R-La.] is yet again —… Source link

How Labour can lead a recruitment and retention revolution

How Labour can lead a recruitment and retention revolution

More from this theme Recent articles A key question for the new government is how to tackle the teacher recruitment and retention crisis. Indeed, after over a decade of missed national recruitment targets and real-term teacher pay levels falling against other sectors, ‘crisis’ may not even be the right word.   Labour has clearly come in armed with the energy and determination to tackle the root causes of the problem. Their recent decision on a 5.5 per cent pay rise for school teachers (mostly funded by the department for education) is a powerful first step. It acknowledges the value of teachers and sets the stage for more meaningful reforms. Meanwhile, Bridget Phillipson’s announcement that teachers can soon use their PPA time at home is also refreshing. This flexibility is essential to making teaching a viable, long-term career choice, especially for young professionals and those juggling work with care-giving responsibilities.  However, the sector does need the government to publish its teacher recruitment and retention strategy soon. Labour’s manifesto hinted that it may include revisions to the …

Christie’s First Sale at New Asia Headquarters Lead By  M. Monet

Christie’s First Sale at New Asia Headquarters Lead By $35 M. Monet

One of Claude Monet‘s famous water lily paintings is slated to lead Christie’s first evening sale of 20th- and 21st-century art at its new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong on September 26. The work is expected to fetch between HK$200 million and HK$280 million ($25 million and $35 million), and if it sells for within that sum, it will become one of the most valuable Western artworks ever to hit the block in the region. The piece, titled Nymphéas (1897–99), shows the water lily pond at the artist’s home in Giverny, France. According to Christie’s, the painting is among the first devoted to that subject that Monet painted. After his death in 1926, the work stayed in his family for a number of years. It then ended up in a private collection before being consigned to Christie’s. Zao Wou-ki’s abstract work 05.06.80–Triptyque (1980), which comes with an estimate of HK$78 million to HK$128 million ($10 million to $15 million), will be on the block alongside the Monet. While Christie’s will debut in the Henderson, a building designed by …

McLaughlin-Levrone sets world lead on return to 400m hurdles

McLaughlin-Levrone sets world lead on return to 400m hurdles

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ramped up preparations for a title defence at this year’s Paris Games by running a world-leading time of 52.70 seconds on Friday in her first 400 metres hurdles race in over a year. McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record holder in the 400 hurdles, last competed in the event in August 2022. The 24-year-old displayed no signs of rust at the Edwin Moses Classic in Atlanta, as she effortlessly surged past her competitors to better Jamaican Rushell Clayton’s previous season-leading mark of 53.72 by over a second. “It’s a progression, you know. Shaking the rust off after two years – I’ll take a 52.7,” McLaughlin-Levrone said after the race. “There are things to work on and I haven’t had much hurdle practice, so there’s things to improve.” McLaughlin-Levrone, who missed last year’s World Championships due to a knee injury, has been competing entirely in the United States in the build-up to this month’s U.S. Olympic Team Trials. “I love racing and I love Europe, but I think in a year like this and …