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Is 6.5% enough?

Today, there was a leak in the Times that said the independent body who make recommendations on teacher pay has recommended a pay rise of 6.5% for teachers in England for September. Obviously, we don’t know all the details, and funding is a key issue, but is 6.5% enough to save education?

Anecdata, but I recently met up with some friends from my teacher training course. We’re close to hitting the 5 year mark- by which point 1/3 of teachers apparently quit. Except I’m going to be the only one out of five of us teaching in England in September, an attrition rate of 80%. And I don’t think that attrition rate is so unusual, any more.

Right now, on one of the main websites which schools use to advertise vacancies, there are over 12,000 teaching/education jobs being advertised in England. It’s very roughly one vacancy for every two schools. These vacancies won’t be evenly distributed between all schools, so there will be schools in September with huge staff shortages. It’s not an exaggeration to say education is in crisis.

If we got 6.5% (and if it were funded, ensuring all teachers could receive the pay rise), would it make any difference? It’s lower than inflation, after all, and many of the things that we regularly need to buy have gone up by more than inflation in the past year.

As a brief explanation, most teachers in England are paid according to one pay scale. People get a bit more in Inner/outer London and the surrounding areas, but otherwise there’s one set of pay for the whole country. All teachers progress from the starting point M1, to M6, usually at the rate of one pay point a year. The 6.5% would be added on to all of these paypoints.

6.5% would bring M1 (the starting pay point for most qualified teachers) very close to the original Tory promise of a £30,000 starting salary for teachers. At the top of the main pay scale- M6 (which is the point at the pay scale where this would have most impact) it would increase salaries by over £2000 to £41, 332. This would be noticeable in pay packets, enough to reduce people’s financial stresses- which can enable them to cope better with a stressful working environment.

I know some of you will say £40k is a lot, but bear in mind we are talking about a postgraduate qualified professional with at least 6 years of experience. For someone with a chemistry, physics or maths degree, that could be their starting salary in industry. It’s about equivalent to the average salary of a pharmacist. In a capitalist system, pay has to be competitive.  

After M6, to increase your pay, you either need to get onto the “upper pay scale” or take on an extra responsibility payment known as a TLR. Getting on to the upper pay scale used to be relatively automatic, but now it’s much harder. It can certainly take people two or three years to progress from M6 to upper pay scale, and you’re expected to take on “whole school responsibilities” which can amount to a lot of extra work, with not that much of an increase in pay. Increasingly, in England, teacher pay is capped at M6, although there are a lot of older teachers who are on the upper pay scale, and sometimes, they find themselves getting pushed out because they are too expensive. If you move schools, there’s no guarantee of getting a UPS pay point at the new school.

TLRs are even worse in many ways. This is the way that people like heads of department and heads of year are paid. It’s a figure set by your school, within a national range, and there’s no consistency between schools. A Head of Science in one school may get £5000, whilst another only gets £3000. It’s worth noting that it’s also much harder to get a TLR in primary. Because TLRs are often the only way to increase your pay, a lot of people rush to take them on, sometimes in the second or third year of teaching. This often leads to burnout, because people take on massive responsibilities before they are ready, and the consequences can be damaging to everyone around them as well.

I do think 6.5% might be just enough to keep some people who are looking elsewhere from leaving. But the main reason people leave is often work related stress, often euphemistically called “workload”, which is largely being driven by the collapse in other services such as social services, the NHS and social care. “Workload” is also often made worse by being in a short staffed department, so it becomes a vicious cycle. I’ll write more about workload in another post.

However, the point is, the profession is on the brink of collapse. I really do believe that. I think the only way to save education would be to tempt a lot of the recent leavers back in. And 6.5% won’t be enough to do that. I don’t think 10% would be enough to do that. Without tackling the systemic problems within teaching, and without a pay system that really rewards classroom teachers doing the key, every day job that makes education functional, pay increases that don’t even match inflation aren’t enough.

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Antimatter Industries has released their latest offering with the new TLR 7 sub Micro Wing for 365/365XL pattern frames. Antimatter Industries state “Competitive shooters have been using thumb-ledges for many years to help recoil control. Why don’t we see them outside of open division? Standard thumb ledges significantly widen your pistol and need a competition holster not designed for duty…

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List of Universities in Delhi NCR Based on 2024 Ranking

Every year, different university ranking associations assign ranks to universities on the basis of different variables, including TLR or Teaching, Learning and Resources; RP or Research and Professional Practice; OI or Outreach and Inclusivity and GO or Graduation Outcomes. Among the top universities in Delhi NCR, following is the list of universities based on 2024 ranking:

KIIT or Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Founded in 1992 by the prominent educationist and philanthropist, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, KIIT Deemed to be University ranks 6th Best University in India among 91 institutes that featured in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. The university’s ranking in the Overall category ranges between 601-800 in the World University rankings and 501-600 in the Engineering & Technology category. In the Business & Economics category, the university ranks between 601-800 and between 401-500 in the Computer Science category. Main subjects taught at the university include Engineering & Technology, Psychology, Arts & Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Computer Science and it boasts of 10% international students. The number of students per staff is 12.3 and the student ratio of females to males is 49:51. So, if you want to take up quality higher education at a top ranking university, contact KIIT now!

AIIMS Delhi

One of India’s most chosen medical universities, AIIMS or All India Institute of Medical Sciences came up in 1956 as an Institution of National Importance by an Act of Parliament. Duly recognised by the Medical Council of India and the University Grants Commission, AIIMS ranks right on top in NIRF ranking with a score of 94.32. With its renowned faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, AIIMS offers exceptional research and education opportunities. The institute offers undergraduate (MBBS), postgraduate (MD/MS) and super-specialty but courses but has a strict selection procedure. It is also known for offering highly competitive academic environment.

IIT Delhi

IIT or the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi ranks among the top autonomous public research universities. It serves as one of the best Centres of Excellence for research, training and development in science, engineering and technology. Ranking 197 in QS World University Rankings 2024 and 2nd in the Engineering and 4th in the Overall category in NIRF Rankings, the university offers high quality education to aspiring students. It even features several financial assistances and scholarship schemes for students to lessen their financial burden.

In conclusion, the landscape of the best ranking universities in Delhi NCR is dynamic and vibrant with the institutions constantly adapting to meet the evolving requirements of the industry.

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You won round 3 incase you didn’t notice.

Anyways do you think there’s enough tlr AU’s to make a competition for it?

I might just make one for fanfic recs honestly

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Illuminate Research Task

Here is my groups research on 5 photographers who use light painting techniques.

Amanda Friedman

Amanda Friedman is an American based photographer who’s photographic specialty lies between commercial and fine art photography. After receiving a BFA in photography at Rochester University, Friedman moved to LA where she later began photographing a series of night landscapes, using both natural and artificial light to produce creative effects. Friedman first began this series after capturing a night landscape on a foggy night in New York City. She shot a role of 120mm on her TLR and the results proved to be an unexpected surprise, thus inspiring her to produce a collection of beautiful images across a fifteen year time span. She captures all of her images using medium and large format cameras and using no digital manipulation in the process.

Below are some examples of her work.

I particularly like the top image of the tents in the campsite. This image is powerful in that the horizontal direction of the lights carries the eye from the bottom of the picture to the top. The brightest part of the photo indicates that white light is being projected from a stadium or arena, which has therefore helped to retain light and color in the foreground. This intensity of light has perhaps allowed the photographer to shoot with a tripod at a low shutter speed in order to achieve the desired effect. The natural vignetting in the photo again focuses the eye to the most interesting elements of the image and amplifies the lighting further. The overall quality of the image is good and presents little noise. This again has been helped by the use of tripod and large format of the camera. Although not directly painting light within the scene, the photographer has used the available light sources to produce a creative effect.

Lance Keimig 

Lance Keimig is an American photographer who specialises in night and low light photography. After picking up a camera at an early age, Lance quickly began experimenting with long exposures and how light can be used to enhance this to change the entire mood or feel of an image. After developing a successful career as a photographer, Keimig decided to follow in the footsteps of his mentor and take up teaching. Since then he has taught classes and workshops on night photography across the globe.

Starting on film, his first experience with long exposure photography involved waving torches in-front of an AE1 just to see what happened. This experimentation lead him to explore the possibilities of using this particular lighting technique.

The above images present a variety of Keimig’s work, highlighting a broad range of work, from black and white to large expansive landscapes and some to smaller, intimate buildings. Throughout the images the light has been sculpted and crafted to evoke a feeling and response from the viewer. The variety of colours and tones, along with the direction of light create an effective which may not have came through with the natural light of the place.

O. Winston Link

O. Winston Link was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. His first photograph was taken on a borrowed medium format, Kodak camera and by the time he had left school, he had built his own enlarger. His technique was making ‘posed photographs’ appear candid, whilst still showcasing a creative element. Link had a keen interest in railroads and whilst on commission for an industrial photography project in Virginia 1955, he captured his first night photograph of a railroad.  A few months later, steam trains were taken over by diesel and it was then that Link’s work became a realised documentation of the end of the steam train era. By 1960, he’d accumulated 2400 negatives from this project (the below image is one of the most recognised.)

The majority of his work was photographed at night and each of his photos were were always meticulously composed. He once said; “I can’t move the sun - and it’s always in the wrong place - and I can’t even move the tracks, so I had to create my own environment through lighting”.

Link’s vision required him to develop new techniques for flash photography when photographing such large subjects. For example, the movie theater image ‘Hotshot Eastbound’  used 42 flashbulbs, all of which fired simultaneously. He used a large format camera which was loaded one sheet of film at a time. He used bulb lights in large cone-shaped holders (as seen below) which directed the light towards the subject. To highlight the texture and metallic surface of the trains, he used a high powered light directed from an angle to reflect off the train. This was the opposite technique for lighting people in his shots, whereby he would create a softer light source to clearly define both subject matters.

Tim Simmons

Tim Simmons is a UK based photographer who uses photography and film to explore themes of time, motion and place. Through his images, he aims to encourage a unique perspective of landscapes. Simmons’ images are captured using a large format camera combined with artificial lighting  to produce a surreal and peculiar look. He often enhances natural lighting by using artificial lighting to sharpen the image; giving it an intense clarity and a greater sense of mystery and expectation. His locations are always carefully researched.

The below images were taken at twilight, using a combination of natural light with artificial light. The natural light of the sky is helping illuminate the subject/surrounding area and the added light (possibly LED or Flash) is helping control the light falling on the subject/object/area etc. This is especially important in the top image due to the similarity in colour of the object and the background sky. if the object was not lit with an added artificial light then it would be lost in the scene and the contrasting shadows wouldn’t be visible. This is why Simmons uses this particular lighting technique, in order to showcase a strong creative element to his photos which provide great visual impact.

John Hartman 

John Hartman is a well accomplished American photographer who specializes in ‘light painting photography’. His use of this technique has won him great recognition, including one of his images being selected as within the top ten photos worldwide in the 2016 international competition of the professional photographers of America.

His highly complex method of shooting involves using special LED lights to compose a series of images of the same subject, but from various vantage points. He then blends the exposures into one single photograph which helps to depict the subject in a way impossible to achieve using any other photographic technique.  

The first photo portrays a landscape scene with a long exposure. The scorched sky and contrasting trees and scales do not attract the eye. The second picture is much more dynamic, with more depth and visual impact. The photographer achieves the shot by lighting specific individual elements of the photo. I’m unsure as to how the photographer has lit the sky, however, many of the techniques may have been executed post production. Using LED light from a side angle has produced depth of contrast in the highlights and shadows. The added clarity gives the image an overall more professional look.

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"Kohana" was an Orca raised in captivity at SeaWorld and then "sold" to Loro Parque in Spain to perform for humans. Orca aren't meant to be kept in concrete cages, or concrete jungles - they're meant to be free out in the open. Kohana died Sept 14, 22. I thought it fitting to name my Spanish @orbea Orca M20iLTDin her memory. The sticker on the top tube is actually Kohana - she was known for playing games with her trainers with leaves. I guess when you're trapped, anything can be a toy. Like an Orca, this bike is an absolute weapon! Crazy fast yet still compliant. Kohana cuts through the air and flies up hills unlike any other bike. Full carbon frame and fork, seatpost and handlebars with @vision_tech_usa SC 40 carbon wheels and @vittoriatires Corsa Control Competition G2.0 TLR 700x30c tires deliver an unparalleled ride - smooth AND efficient. Internal hose routing and aero shapes cheat the wind. @shimanoroad Ultegra Di2 2x12-speed electronic shifting is fast and precise. I've set custom shift patterns for automatic shifting of the front derailleur, with it's 52-36 chainrings. Ultegra hydraulic disk brakes stop Kohana in a heart beat. @4iiiicom Precision Pro dual-sided power meters to make the most of my training. I'll share the custom screen on my @garmincycling Edge 520 Plus bike computer later. @selle_italia SLR Boost SuperFlow L Carbon Keramic Rail with an @axiomgear Seymour Oceanweave Wedge 1.3 seatbag and @lizardskinscycling DSP bar tape finish the cockpit. Cool fact about the seatbag - it's made from plastic from re-claimed fishing nets! @supacaz Fly Cage Carbon hologram bottle cages finish the look. Can we talk about the paint and finish on this bike? Bourdeaux and raw carbon mix - the colour seems to flow like blood under the clearcoat. You don't look at this paint, but into it. It's captivating and mesmerizing! #OrbeaBicycles #OrbeaOrca #myridemyrules #destinationroad #shimano #garmin #Kohana #cyclelife #mycyclelife #4iii #visiontech #capturaphoto #captura #apsley #northkawartha #ontario #canada #outdoors #churchoftheskinnytire (at Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkI4r0ZONzX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hepatitis B Virus Infection - Global Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2029 published on

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Hepatitis B Virus Infection - Global Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2029

Hepatitis B Virus Infection – Global Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2029

Summary

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a serious liver disease caused by the failure of viral clearance following acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The global disease burden is high in the nine major markets (9MM: US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Japan, Brazil, and China); it is especially high in China. For most patients, CHB is a lifelong disease that cannot be cured, with only a very small number of patients entering remission each year. Patients with CHB have a 20% risk of developing life-threatening liver disease, such as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as a result of their condition. Guidelines by the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) have recommended CHB to be treated with nucleotide analogs (NA).

Gilead Sciences and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) are the major players within the CHB market with their nucleotide analogs Viread (TDF, Gilead), Vemlidy (TAF, Gilead) and Baraclude (entecavir, BMS). However, generic versions of TDF and entecavir dominate the 9MM. The CHB treatment pipeline is predominantly in early stages. Gilead’s TLR-8 agonist selgantolimod, J&J’s capsid assembly modulator JNJ-6379, and antisense nucleotide JNJ-3898 could significantly impact the CHB market across the 9MM. Also Replicor, Assembly Biosciences, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals are developing CHB therapies. A major unmet for CHB treatment remains the potential to achieve functional cure.

Key Highlights

– During the 10-year forecast period, there are six major pipeline products that are on track to launch, driving a forecast growth in the 9MM from $3.8B in 2019 to $5.2B in 2029, which represents a CAGR of 3.1%. – To combat the unmet need of a functional cure, companies such as Gilead, J&J, Replicor, Ionis, and Assembly Biosciences are developing pipeline products with novel mechanism of action, with the potential of being used as a combination therapy either with current nucleotide analogs or with emerging products. – The pipeline products are expected to launch in the second half of the forecast period in 2029. Antisense nucleotides are expected to gain a market share of 14.7% and sales of $761M in the 9MM by 2029. However, capsid assembly modulators from J&J and a toll-like receptor 8 agonist from Gilead are expected to compete with antisense nucleotides for market shares in the 9MM by the end of the forecast period.

Key Questions Answered

– How will the CHB market landscape in the 9MM (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Japan, Brazil, China) change from 2019-2029? – What are the most promising late-stage pipeline products for CHB treatment? – How do the clinical and commercial attributes of late-stage pipeline products compare with one another, and against existing CHB treatment options? – What are the remaining unmet needs in CHB treatment? – What drivers and barriers will affect CHB treatment sales in the 9MM over the forecast period?

Scope

– Overview of CHB, including epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and current management strategies. – Topline CHB treatment market revenue from 2019-2029. Annual cost of therapy and major pipeline product sales in this forecast period are included. – Key topics covered include current CHB treatment, unmet needs and opportunities, and the drivers and barriers affecting CHB treatment sales in the 9MM. – Pipeline analysis: comprehensive data split across different phases, emerging novel trends under development, synopses of innovative early-stage projects, and detailed analysis of late-stage pipeline products. – Analysis of the current and future market competition in the global CHB treatment market. Insightful review of the key industry drivers, constraints, and challenges. Each trend is independently researched to provide qualitative analysis of its implications.

Reasons to Buy

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