Bernadette Devlin crossed the floor of the House of Commons to punch the Home Secretary when he lied about what had happened on Bloody Sunday. The British establishment was more outraged by her act than by the murder of innocent civilians.
Tony Gallagher
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Tony Gallagher
@tgeducation
Emeritus Professor, @QUBelfast - interests: education in divided societies; civic role of HE. Views here are my own & retweets do not imply endorsement.
- Your car is German. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your numbers are Arabic, your letters are Latin. And you complain that your neighbor is an immigrant? Pull yourself together! WE ARE ONE
- A U grade means the submitted exam script was so poor it couldn’t be graded. Effectively it means the candidate turned up for the exam, but little else. How is it possible for a student predicted to get *any* grade to be downgraded to a U? By an algorithm??
- Dear friends, please welcome my beautiful new granddaughter Eimear into our world. She was born in London a few days ago, so I don't know yet when I will get to hold her, and hug Aine and Ed, but 2021 has now given me something wonderful to look forward to.
- At long last I get to hold my new grandchild, Eimear ❤️❤️ Happy man today!
- Shocking statistics from Samaritans on suicide rates per 100,000 in the UK and Ireland: Men: NI: 28.0 Scotland: 21.9 Wales: 19.1 England: 15.9 RoI: 11.7 Women: NI: 9.5 Scotland: 7.3 Wales: 6.9 England: 4.9 RoI: 2.9 Source: Samaritans (2019) Suicide Statistics Report
- Yesterday the EU agreed to extend the grace period on chilled meat and proposed permanent mitigations on medicine, guide dogs, insurance green cards and livestock. Today Lord Frost accused the EU of inflexibility in an Irish Times opinion piece. You couldn’t make it up, really.
- The illogic of this @bbcgmu interview is that is is based on the notion that 10 year old children can be divided into two categories, of ‘academic’ children and ‘non-academic’ children, and all else in education flows from this. This had some currency in the 1930s, but not now.
- I was a student and SU sabbatical office at @qubelfast from 1976 to 1985, and an academic from 1992, but now I'm retiring as an employee of Queen’s. I have worked, studied, argued, travelled, learned and socialized with the most amazing people, and I wouldn’t change a thing.
- So Peter Weir needs an extra few days to decide what to do about GCSEs so in the meantime he is telling to students to assume they will go ahead. Because he doesn’t want them to be disadvantaged. Over students in England where they have been cancelled.
- Great to see the tributes to Frank Pantridge, inventor of the portable defibrillator which has saved countless lives across the world, and perhaps also helped this evening. His portrait, with his invention, proudly hangs in the @QUBelfast Great Hall. @QUBAlumni @QUBEngagement
- When all we talk about is learning loss, then hardly surprising the only solution we consider is more learning. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The impact of covid on education is more complex than that, and our solutions should reflect that.
- Investment in the youth sector is always a good idea, but more youth clubs isn’t the answer. We need an education system which provides every young person with a realistic prospect of getting a decent job and living a fulfilled life. Every young person deserves a good future.
