1. Short notice, this one: from Aqueduto at 14:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 26^th June, Elevate Your Online Language Teaching Training with AQUEDUTO’s Quality Framework, will be of value to everyone involved in the delivery of online language teacher education courses. More info and registration here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsceygpj4uGdMcU4Vr7mpRJWAjDpfNCwhd#/registration

Not perhaps the very snappiest of titles?

2. Is the balance of HE power shifting away from the Anglosphere? Here’s a piece from University World News, Can Northeast Asian countries lead the new waves of TNE? https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240618104056943

3. History is written by the victors, they say. Samuel Helfont suggests that certainly could have been the case – but may not now be – in this piece for Engelsberg Ideas, The Saddam files and the battle for Iraqi history https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-saddam-files/

We left Iraq on the eve – unknowingly – of the First Gulf War, never to return, having had a hugely rewarding first year, both professionally and personally. I still find it hard to accept that Baghdad today is a better place for most people than it was in 1990, evil man though Saddam was: the price paid for civil liberty has been a very high one.

4. The European Centre for Modern Languages would welcome responses from Europe and beyond to this survey, A short survey on the use of AI in language teaching https://tinyurl.com/y2z4pvuz Scroll down the page a little for the link to the survey in a number of different languages (on the left-hand side).

5. And, finally, a mischievous test of English from Canguro English https://canguroenglish.com/test-your-english/