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Reza Schwitzer

@schwitzer.bsky.social
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Principal Consultant at Avencera. Formerly AQA, DfE and Public First. Loud and sometimes prone to hyperbole. COYG! Views own

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 20/07/2026
In my latest podcast, Reza @schwitzer.bsky.social told me that Andy Burnham's desire for more devolution may not necessarily fit with the need for schools to deliver a consistent experience for pupils across the country. Listen to the full episode here: insideyoured.com
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 09/07/2026
🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 What might Andy Burnham in No.10 mean for schools in England? @schwitzer.bsky.social and Meg Powell-Chandler join me to explore some of the big changes that could be awaiting pupils, teachers and leaders in the coming years. Listen here: insideyoured.com
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’ve waited a long time for this. 🤫❤️🍾🎉🥳
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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
'The government has a strong policy proposition which could improve the lives of millions of children with SEND. But to succeed it will need to think as carefully about 2014 as it does about 2034' schoolsweek.co.uk/how-to-go-from-we…
schoolsweek.co.uk
How to go from well intentioned to success with SEND reform
The government needs to think as carefully about 2014 as it does about 2034
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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Old tweets being deleted now
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Check out this Rethinking Assessment blog based on a keynote by Reza Schwitzer on the future of assessment. What changes do you think matter most for students? rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking…
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Financial literacy is set to become a core part of the curriculum, following publication of the Curriculum & Assessment Review. During #NumberConfidenceWeek, Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social and Natalie Wilson from AQA met the APPG on Financial Education to demo our new numeracy app. (1/3)
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Proud to convene leaders from the UK Ukrainian community at @aqaeducation.bsky.social to discuss the campaign for a Ukrainian GCSE. We need the right qualification, but it's also about preserving and celebrating Ukrainian identity. Thanks to @joepowell.bsky.social and other MPs for your support
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We were honoured to host an inspiring meeting this morning alongside @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social and @joepowell.bsky.social - bringing together Ukrainian language teachers & stakeholders for a discussion on how to ensure Ukrainian children can maintain & develop their language skills while in the UK.
Fifteen people lined up facing the camera in a room.
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We’re finishing up in Manchester for the Conservative Party Conference and began with a @ukyouth.bsky.social YouthZone panel! Panellists included @lauracunliffehall.bsky.social, an AQA Student Advisory Group member, a UK Youth member and AQA Head of External Affairs, @c-fraser.bsky.social (1/8)
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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Rounding off today’s panels with @aqaeducation.bsky.social We're joined by @robeastaway.bsky.social, Sarah Porretta (@youngenterprise.bsky.social), Baroness Spielman, and @schwitzer.bsky.social to discuss what’s needed from the curriculum and assessment system to help every child excel in maths.
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The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) @ascl-uk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Many thanks to our joint panel with Education Policy Institute at the #CPC25 today on ‘Can technology solve the challenges facing #education’ for a thoughtful and insightful discussion. With Pepe Di’Iasio Natalie Perera Dr Ben Spencer Reza Schwitzer and Shane Ierston. #AI #policy
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hello from Liverpool for the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference! Yesterday was a busy day, starting in the Youth Zone with a panel event including representatives from Girlguiding, @dofe.org and our Student Advisory Group. (1/5)
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Peter Swallow MP @peter4bracknell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great to finish a packed day at conference chatting with the Education Policy Institute about building a curriculum where every child can thrive - thank you to fellow panelists for a really insightful session
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 29/09/2025
Cracking panel at @edupolicyinst.bsky.social / @aqaeducation.bsky.social event, discussing the small matter of the future of the curriculum and assessment. @schwitzer.bsky.social @jonnyuttley.bsky.social @leoracruddas.bsky.social @pepediiasio.bsky.social @peter4bracknell.bsky.social
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Very eminent group of people, was really exciting to present our numeracy prototype to them and get so much support and encouragement for what we’re doing
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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Kicking off our #LDConf programme with a packed room, looking at inclusive curriculum & assessment reform in partnership with @aqaeducation.bsky.social. Ellie Harris (@thedifferenceed.bsky.social), David Laws, Phil Sayles, @schwitzer.bsky.social & @munirawilson.bsky.social on the panel.
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
How is this not incitement? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Musk's fellowship of Royal Society in doubt after rally address
The world's most prestigious scientific body raised concerns about the "language of violence" at the march.
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It’s #LiteracyDay today, and that includes digital literacy. So how confident are young people in engaging digitally? @thakeman.bsky.social writes the latest AQi blog about the myth of the digital native and what support young people need in this digital media era > www.aqa.org.uk/aqi/the-myth...
International Literacy Day 2025
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Would love to hear more about this
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If Darren Jones is now CDL anyway, doesn’t the new CSPM role lose some of its importance? Is the new story now really the newly formed Department of Growth led by Pat McFadden?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The interesting Q re: Polanski taking over the Greens is whether they can keep their strategic ambiguity that has allowed them to win in both progressive and nimby/Tory/conservationist areas.
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Martin about as happy as I am with doing a half time interview. What new devilry is this?
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“In a world where AI will be ubiquitous, but we want young people to develop knowledge and skills of their own, we will need to find a balance,” writes Chinwe Njoku in an engrossing new AQi blog. www.aqa.org.uk/aqi/ai-in-ed...
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Had to do a double take on these polling figures 👀 @politico.eu @yougov.co.uk
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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Yes I do agree that the application of the test needs more nuance than it probably will have. Haven’t seen the details apart from on this page www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/fast-stream/...
civil-service-careers.gov.uk
FS Summer Internship Programme
Discover a career in the Civil Service with the Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme (SIP). This 6-8 week, UK-wide internship offers talented undergraduates £430 per week to gain experience in rese...
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Don’t agree. The way it has been announced, socio-economics is an exclusionary factor. It doesn’t say there are exemptions for disability or care experience. I hope that is just the media line and not the reality. (It’s otherwise obviously sensible but not that different to the status quo…)
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Every day is a school day! Just discovered wheat plants are also used to make straw. Beautiful morning in Berkshire
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Imagine you're a brand that doesn't want to pay whatever Cindy Crawford, Kendall Jenner, and Gisele Bündchen command. Can you create an AI "model" based on them? A basic idea of property rights is that you own your body and thus what your body creates (labor). How does this work with AI "models?"
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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The response from John, by the way, is an absolute masterclass in reacting to a hospital pass
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Will somebody PLEASE think of my vegetables www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
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UK weather: Temperatures set to hit 33C in third heatwave of the summer
Hot weather is forecast to return this week but to which locations and for how long?
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is why we can’t have nice things
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Have just clocked this presumably includes the Chief Medical Officer? Chief Social Worker? Not able to do Q&As or conference appearances? What about Becky Francis? She’s a civil servant (on secondment). Can she not talk publicly about the C&A Review anymore?
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“Whilst ministers remain intensely nervous of any media coverage which even slightly deviates from the agreed position, so civil servants will continue to be very selective in who they discuss things with openly and honestly.” www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
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Policy changes can help save the civil service – but only if politics changes too
Policy solutions to fix the civil service aren't viable without political change
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I really like @jo3hill.bsky.social's 'everythingism' concept (re-state.co.uk/publications...) and it's inspired me to think a bit about what I used to see undermining good policymaking in government, and to call it out! (1/6)
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Everythingism: an essay - Re:State
The State has been paralysed by a powerful force: Everythingism.   Everythingism is the belief that every proposal, project or policy is a means for promoting every national objective, all at the same...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Today, students sat the last exams of the AQA summer 2025 exam series. Our thanks to the school and college leaders, teachers and exams officers who helped to make it happen. And best of luck to the students when results are out in August! 1/2
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Will this change how people write consultation responses? I've always advised making each answer stand on its own, given DfE often slices responses up for different officials. But might there now be a skill in writing a response which is easily summarised by AI? If so, what would that look like?
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Andy Jolley @andyjolley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fantastic news on Labour extending FSM eligibility to everyone claiming Universal Credit @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social making a bold and positive move that will unquestionably help address child poverty This is long overdue and credit must go to DfE But… there are still some details that need work
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
On a train where the driver has *literally* switched the whole train off and on again to try and fix it. If it’s good enough for your tablet it’s good enough for a train.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Also whichever coward anonymously called Becky Francis, who is leading the curriculum review, a "timid technocrat" is an idiot who clearly doesn't know her.
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A major, multi-year Spending Review announcement is now just over a week away. In my opinion, this will dictate the direction of government policy over the next three years far more than speeches or white papers ever truly can.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This article might be wishcasting, but if the govt goes in this direction it will be deeply disappointing. Education has issues but the basics work, much better than any other public service. The people pushing this stuff do not have a track record delivering for kids - quite the opposite in fact.
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Interesting choice for UUK to draw a direct comparison between HE vs. school & college funding. Is the claim really that colleges have been lavished with funding compared to HE? "The university system is being repeatedly deprioritised in favour of investment in schools and colleges." (1/2)
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump getting embarrassed in front of his friends
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a south park character says buuutt memmmmm
ALT: a south park character says buuutt memmmmm
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Do you ever get the feeling you’re being lied to? 😅
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John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
One of England’s main education union leaders has warned against “an excess of caution” preventing the rollout of digital exams. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
tes.com
Warning over ‘excess of caution’ in introducing digital exams
Concerns raised about the wait for on-screen assessment after AQA chief tells Tes that digital exams in a major subject are not expected until 2035 at earliest
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Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In 2015 I set up the School Efficiency and Financial Health programme in DfE. Colleagues and I worked x-dept in what felt like a genuinely new way of working, to develop support for school efficiency. A few rebrands later, it’s incredible how similar the language here is 10 years later.
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