1. The LINEs (Learning for Informal and Non-formal Educators) project, led by a team based at the University of Glasgow School of Education (Damian Ross, Maria Grazia Imperiale & Giovanna Fassetta), worked with teachers involved in non-formal and informal refugee education in Lebanon and Jordan, in partnership with Mishwar in Lebanon https://mishwar.org/ and Sawiyan in Jordan https://sawiyan.org/, to explore the teachers’ values, hopes and aspirations https://lines-learning.com/

They’ve just published their final report and a set of ‘Reflections’ on the project by those involved: PDFs of both below.

2. Here, by way of marked contrast to the work the LINEs project did and the values that underpinned it, is the final report by The House of Commons Committee of Privileges on the conduct of the Right Honourable (sic) Boris Johnson https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/40412/documents/197199/default/ PDFs below of the whole damning thing and the summary only.

I guess it means that parliamentary democracy in the UK isn’t yet quite broken?

3. Creating an inclusive school environment is a collection of case-studies from TeachingEnglish, edited by Susan Douglas, looking at the work of teachers, leaders and policy makers in fifteen geographically and culturally diverse situations and the challenges they face – and the significant efforts they make – to ensure access to, and engagement with, a quality education for all children https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/case-studies-insights-and-research/creating-inclusive-school-environment It maybe didn’t get as much attention as it deserved when it was first published in 2019. PDF below.

Susan also produced a set of six short matching videos last year which offer an accessible introduction to the topic https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvCfA99qTst8q5Ccziuuc2deaOII_lBom

4. A compelling account of wickedness from Mark O’Connell, writing in The Guardian, ‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/ireland-most-notorious-murderer-malcolm-macarthur-why-i-might-have-done-what-i-did

5. And, finally, a slightly dog-eared recording of a classic episode of Candid Camera from 1959 https://youtu.be/wwlOTYGAP54