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Jonathan Simons
@jonathansimons
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. “University lobbyist 👎” - CCHQ
London, England
publicfirst.co.uk
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Jun 19, 2021
    There are 35k non UK doctors currently working in the NHS. We train a TOTAL 7k doctors a yr in UK medical schools. If we *doubled* medical places *overnight* (not gonna happen), given training times, we could not even break even in less than 10 yrs. What a bullshit commitment.
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    Gabriel Pogrund
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    Jun 19, 2021
    EXC: Dido Harding will seek to end Britain's reliance on foreign doctors and nurses if she becomes the next head of the NHS UK will instead become "net exporter" of medical professionals in long term boost for "GB Plc" She'll also resign as a Tory peer More details here👇
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Apr 27, 2022
    You cannot - you simply cannot - go and give f-in evidence to a f-in select committee and make a point, and then when asked to substantiate it, say “I mean I dunno, i’m not an expert”.
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    Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social
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    Apr 27, 2022
    here is the clip - first it's cos girls don't like the maths, which is then "a natural thing" and then she's totally fine with physics a-level only being 16% girls.
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Jan 30, 2022
    God I love this (from the @wesstreeting piece in the Observer today theguardian.com/politics/2022/…)
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Apr 28, 2023
    Heard from a school that has massive absence today because parents have worked out that between yesterday’s strike day, an unauthorised absence today, a bank holiday weekend, and a strike day on Tue, they can have 6 days off. One class of 32 has….8 kids in today.
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Nov 16, 2019
    “How do you know that you weren’t in Tramps that night?” “Because actually I remember that night very well. You see, I’d gone to see the wonderful Salisbury Cathedral, with its famous 123 metre spire....” #PrinceAndrew
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    Jonathan Simons
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    May 25, 2024
    A regular reminder that you had to be born in 1921 to have been eligible for national service when it was introduced, or 1930 to have served before it was scrapped. No one who is less than 94 years old has ever seen national service.
    Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added context
    National Service ended in 1960, with people serving due to it as late as 1963 parliament.uk/about/living-h…
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Apr 5, 2020
    I bloody told you he shouldn’t have come for tea
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    BNO News
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    Apr 5, 2020
    BREAKING: Bronx Zoo says one of its tigers has tested positive for coronavirus
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Feb 27, 2021
    Front page of the Tel: universities are censoring history by only telling a partial story. Later in the Tel: the National Trust should be investigated because it wants to tell the whole story of history. Pick a fricking lane, guys
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Apr 27, 2019
    How f—g stupid is this; let me count the ways buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
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    Jonathan Simons
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    May 18, 2024
    An extended case study on why this is a self defeating argument - using Teesside University, which Simon is rightly very proud of.
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    Simon Clarke
    @SirSimonClarke
    May 18, 2024
    Our immigration policy doesn’t exist to prop up our university sector (which ranges from excellent to mediocre). As @NeilDotObrien has shown, the graduate visa route often leads into low paid work, not high-skilled jobs. A litmus test of seriousness about cutting immigration
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Jun 20, 2020
    There are 450k civil servants. This stat aggregates 6 years worth of spending. That works out to an average of - hold your hat - £2.75 per civil servant a year. Seriously, get away with you.
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    TaxPayers' Alliance
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    Jun 19, 2020
    Extraordinary civil service perks are costing taxpayers a fortune! 🤯 Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/3dXj9xq
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Jan 3, 2021
    I don’t understand how you can read the latest data in London + SE without crying. And I’m sending my kids into primary school tomorrow. Because they want to go and I think it’s good for their education + social development. I think I’m a terrible parent. I don’t know what to do.
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Oct 10, 2020
    How it started: How it’s going:
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    Jonathan Simons
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    Jun 24, 2022
    In conversation with someone about why Ed Davey can pull off these cheesy stunts in a way that Clegg / Jo Swinson / Ming Campbell could never do. It’s because he’s Dad humour personified. He *is* centrist Dad