Reposted by Rebecca LoaderParents for Inclusive Education @pfie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025📢 Exciting research launch news! PFIE joined with QUB & the NI Interfaith Forum for research on Religious Education in NI. 📘 Religion and Worldviews Education for All 🗓 4 Dec 10:00-11:30am 📍Riddell Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road 🎟️ Tickets are free, registration necessary tinyurl.com/3j8u58mm 011
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderAisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ 012
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderPeace education from Quakers in Britain @peaceedu.quaker.org.uk · 04/11/2025Come and work with us to develop Peer Mediation! For details of how to apply, go to www.quaker.org.uk/jobs To arrange an informal discussion of the role, please email peaceedu@quaker.org.uk 012
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderRunnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Stephen Lawrence should be celebrating his 51st birthday today, but he was murdered in a racist attack at just 18. As we look to the horrifying resurgence of racist violence, Stephen’s story serves as a poignant reminder of why racial justice matters. Rest in power, Stephen. Your legacy lives on 🖤 0209
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderJack Russell @jackru.bsky.social · 02/09/2025✨ Imagine this… ✨ 📚 You open a book and find a character who looks like you, sounds like you, or shares the same traditions as your family! 📚 🌍 That’s what our We Are Belfast workshops are all about!stillirisestories.orgInclusivity Training - Orla McKeatingCreating Inclusive Learning through Stories At Still I Rise Diversity Storytelling, our mission is to amplify underrepresented voices, bridge cultural gaps, and cultivate empathy through the power of ... 122
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderAlison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 17/08/2025The same Chris Philp didn’t say this for Ukraine. The same Chris Philp said the opposite “Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential"” @scotnational.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/delay-...news.sky.comDelay biometric visa checks for 80 Gaza students, dozens of MPs urge UK governmentBarry Gardiner MP says educating students from Gaza is about "giving the state of Palestine the possibility of a future". But Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential". 096
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderNiamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also 041
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 14/06/2025These topics are much more complex and nuanced than a few lines can address, but glad that a couple of the educational issues I raised, including the need for more explicit commitments to antiracism in the curriculum, made the cut in this piece.theguardian.com‘Where are the foreigners?’: does a facile explanation lie behind Ballymena’s outbreak of hate?Northern Ireland faces stark questions over the racism, xenophobia and intolerance that has forced families from abroad to flee 031
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Pleased to have contributed to this systematic review of literature on academic selection in the UK, led by Ian Cantley. Consistent with the emphasis on evidence in NI education policy, it offers a robust evaluation and synthesis of the research. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comReview of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online LibraryAcademic selection for post-primary education is an important feature of the educational landscape in some parts of the United Kingdom, most notably in Northern Ireland and some areas of England, in ... 011
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderPaul Jump @pauljump.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"A career is meant to be something you grow into – layered with experience, trust and time, but in academia these days, you’re uprooted before anything can truly take hold. The opportunities to stay put and flourish are so often dependent on whim and circumstance." @timeshighered.bsky.socialtimeshighereducation.comI’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exitFor one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long,... 312623
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 04/05/2025#InternationalDawnChorusDay in our garden at 5.30am. A wonderful moment just to be still and listen. 000
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians. 5119411013
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Had a wonderful day at the third @beranews.bsky.social Presidential Seminar on anti-racism and education yesterday in Cardiff. Wales's commitments to being both an antiracist nation and a nation of sanctuary are fantastic, especially from the vantage point of NI. (1/2) 141
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 17/04/2025How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.socialtandfonline.comThe educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and researchEthnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023... 186
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderNicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This is shocking, an egregious overreach by #MetPolice. Westminster #Quaker Meeting House is a place of peace, of worship & community. To be invaded so aggressively is a violation of the space AND of the right to freely assemble. #HomeSecretary & #PoliceCommissioner must respond. @quaker.org.uk 184
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 26/03/2025We are looking to speak to parents of P7 pupils in Newry and North Belfast for our research on post-primary transfer. Please share! If you're interested in participating, please let us know here: forms.office.com/e/9QeTwDryqJ 125
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderSiún Carden @s-carden.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A shameful story about immigrant business people’s experiences in Belfast, from the paramilitary protection racket to council inaction after racist riots www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...irishtimes.comBelfast race riots aftermath: ‘We have received nothing from the council, the government or our insurance company’Immigrants whose businesses were destroyed or damaged in August’s violence say the only help they have got came from the public 011
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderBERA @beranews.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Join us in Leeds for the BERA Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England? @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social 🗓️ 25 Feb 2025 📍Leeds Beckett University Find out more and register: bera.ac.uk/event/presid... 011
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderAisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Book Launch for "The Racialized Nature of Academic Language" edited by Dr Sultan Turkan and @jlschissel.bsky.social See the full list of speakers and how to register online here🤩: mcgill.ca/plurilingual... And if you are in Belfast (NI), join us in person! Imagemcgill.caBook Launch: The Racialized Nature of Academic LanguageYou're kindly invited to our next virtual Plurilingual Lab Speaker Series event with the book launch of: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Disentangling the Raciolinguistics Power Structures... 252
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderThe Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025The government has made reducing child poverty one of its key policy objectives. 📈 Our interactive tool allows you to compare policies for reducing child poverty, and see how child poverty rates have changed over time: ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-reduce-c… 173
Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Glad to be able to brief the NI Assembly Education Committee this afternoon on our research on experiences of education among minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland. Thanks to the Committee for the opportunity and @nuffieldfoundation.org for the support for this research. 161
Reposted by Rebecca LoaderQuakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 22/11/2024The news that arrest warrants have been issued by the ICC against Israeli and Hamas leaders sends a clear signal: no party to this violence is above the law. We pray this will herald a desperately needed turning point for the region. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve... 03211