Oh, I'd hate to be the lawyers who cleared this paragraph in a story riddled with sex offenders:
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Oh, I'd hate to be the lawyers who cleared this paragraph in a story riddled with sex offenders:
After the fiascos of "covid-sniffing" dogs and "cancer-sniffing" dogs, the Telegraph is now trying to sell us "paedo-sniffing" dogs
Oh look, Xander "I'm on the breadline" Armstrong has decided to speak out for poverty-stricken <checks notes> cathedral schools.
1) There's money to be made in stirring up hate against trans people and Muslims.
2) It's OK to slag off brown immigrants to the UK while being an American with homes in London and Lisbon
#GCSEMaths 2026 bus countdown (supplementary)
It'll just be the Times' Nicola Woolcock writing drivel again.
We (state comprehensive) require 7 in Maths to do any of A Level Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology.
The thing that worries me about this is the classification/labelling of students into the two categories. All the evidence is that, with the best will in the world, this will happen along class/privilege/gender lines
Peak Bluesky
I keep saying - there will be fewer students, and they'll be doing less maths. There is no way this benefits 16 year olds.
Good grief YES YES YES
1) Marriage
2) Check who owns house
3) Will
4) Power of Attorney
I might be missing something here but these 2 things seem totally contradictory
Watch the Numeracy For Life Committee meeting for yourself. Warning: contains some Bobby Seagull
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Carry on Pulp Fictioning - Carry On stars caricatured as the Tarantino film.
Always ahead of the curve, life imitating art and all that, @vizcomic.bsky.social
Run For Your Mother****** Wife
Told by bank Monzo their JustEat spending was "top 15%", one complainer took them to the Ombudsman to complain about misuse of personal data.
Special pleading: "X lives with chronic fatigue affecting their ability to get to the shops, and has an eating disorder"
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
A little bonus to this morning's weekly shop, the Coinstar machine in Sainsburys had rejected some actual British coins, and the person using it hadn't checked. Who doesn't check??
How do you make a Maths GCSE with no harder algebra, trigonometry or circle theorems go up to Grade 9 standard?
"Numberous" is my new favourite word
found this while searching for "GSCE" after it appeared on the Wales GCSE site
Wales says no as well
qualifications.wales/news-views/i...
As ever: no thanks. What would be the top grade on Foundation in that case? 3 or 4?
And we go back to parents complaining because their child isn't being the chance of getting a 5.
Four postboxes
Agreed
Why is England proposing a split, when Wales has just changed from the 2-GCSE model to a "double-award" qualification like in some Science GCSEs?
All students do both but the double award reflects the content and value of the qualification. I'd get behind that!
qualifications.wales/news-views/i...
I find it ironic that this is being touted around by Professor Hannah Fry, and Professor Paul Glaister of AMIE, and others who are ALSO campaigning to "Protect Pure Maths" in our universities.
But of course they mean "protect the boffins"
www.lms.ac.uk/news/campaig...
Or circle theorems
Meanwhile the Conservatives and The Sun are the only people campaigning to get rid of a formula sheet that students have had since the introduction of GCSE (except for three years - the 2017-19 exams when Gove was in charge) and that all independent schools have always had.
As usual, it can be boiled down to "Don't make the thick kids do algebra"
This is such a retrograde step. With all the gaming of the past, and the dearth of arts and languages at GCSE and A Level, why can people not see the net effect will be less maths overall, as fewer students do the double subject. It's not a linked-pair pilot!
CUT your takeaway pizza into evenly sized slices by simply locating its centre using a ruler and compass, then dividing 360 by the number of slices you want. This will give you the number of degrees each slice should measure at the centre. Then use a protractor to measure the degrees and a ruler to ensure accurate cutting. Chris Horsley, Barnsley
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