Monthly Archives: June 2022

1. My tongue was slightly in my cheek – only slightly, mind you – when I shared that HBR piece on Tuesday about over monitoring workers and asked if it might apply to education. There was an article in yesterday’s … Continue reading →

1. Everyone gets one Harvard Business Review article a month for free, I think. Here’s Monitoring Employees Makes Them More Likely to Break Rules https://hbr.org/2022/06/monitoring-employees-makes-them-more-likely-to-break-rules “We found that monitored employees were substantially more likely to take unapproved breaks, disregard instructions, … Continue reading →

This message today will be my last message as a British Council employee. I started work as an English language ‘lector’ at Zagreb University in what was then Yugoslavia in September 1979, and along the way I’ve worked and lived … Continue reading →

1. Short notice – the deadline is 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Thursday 23rd June – but that doesn’t always affect the quality of an application in my experience: IATEFL offer a host of scholarships – no fewer than 28 – … Continue reading →

1. Apologies for the short notice for this one: the next Eaquals webinar is tomorrow, Tuesday 21st June, at 10:00 UK time. Arum Perwitasari and Joanna Wrzesinska will be talking about Resources to support writing for academic purposes More info … Continue reading →

1. The Times Education Commission (TEC) – who appointed themselves to the task – have just published their report on ‘Britain’s whole education system’, Bringing out the Best: How to transform education and unleash the potential of every child https://nuk-tnl-editorial-prod-staticassets.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/education-commission/Times%20Education%20Commission%20final%20report.pdf … Continue reading →

1. Some interesting thinking (and a webinar) from NESTA, Could early years tech support child development? https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/mapping-parenting-technology/could-toddler-tech-help-to-get-more-children-school-ready/ Register for the webinar here https://www.eventsforce.net/nesta/frontend/reg/thome.csp I think it’s fair to say that orthodox opinion hitherto has been that toddlers and tech don’t … Continue reading →

1. There’s a number of TeachingEnglish webinars coming up in the next few weeks. They’re all listed here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-events/webinars The first one in the list is this Saturday, 18th June, at 14:00 UK time, English Connects Action Research: Learnings from … Continue reading →

1. This Friday, 17th June, is United Nations World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought and to mark this day the Language Centre, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London will be hosting a webinar … Continue reading →

1. The London School of Economics (LSE) are holding a festival this week: full details here https://festival.lse.ac.uk/ With a series of short videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4elntcUEy2OUUr6Mv2N-goydqGyqr7t that includes How can we tackle digital inequalities? https://youtu.be/MVb3ehwsufc and How can we support climate resilient … Continue reading →