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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Thursday, 28th November (Cambridge)
1. First up today, a gleaning from last week’s TLS (Times Literary Supplement), from the Munich research group, CESifo, A Matter of Taste: The Negative Welfare Effect of Expert Judgments by Nicolas Lagios & Pierre-Guillaume Méon https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4991796# From the glitz … Continue reading
Tuesday, 26th November (Richmond)
1. Some good clear analysis here from Carbon Brief of the final outcomes of COP 29 in Baku https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-baku/ Tidily sorted into sections, which might lend itself to a whole class activity with pairs of students each responsible for summarising/reporting … Continue reading
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Thursday, 21st November (Cambridge)
1. Here’s all the winners from this year’s English Language Teaching Oscars, the ELTons. Truly global, with winners in alphabetical order from Benin, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Turkey, the UK and the USA! … Continue reading
Tuesday, 19th November (Cambridge)
1. Regardless of its easy to use clickable map, I rather doubt this Carbon Brief publication, Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world, will be much read in the Trump White House https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html 2. The Cambridge University … Continue reading
Thursday, 14th November (Cambridge)
1. Personality traits that typify job roles revealed in study is the claim made by a recent post on the Edinburgh University blog: Stereotypes about which personality traits are associated with different jobs are largely true, an extensive study by … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 12th November (Richmond)
1. First up today, The Place of English, Tony Capstick & Harry Kuchah Kuchah’s discussion for TeachingEnglish https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/place-english How can teacher educators help teachers to think through and make sense of questions about the place of (varieties of) English in … Continue reading
Thursday, 7th November (Richmond)
1. Here’s the thoughtful first episode of Carne Ross’s Gentle Anarchy podcast, in which he interviews Daniel Levy, a member of the Israeli negotiating team in Oslo in 1993 who has since altered his stance on Middle Eastern affairs https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gentle-anarchy/episodes/DANIEL-LEVY-e2q4f1t … Continue reading
Tuesday, 5th November (Cambridge)
1. Two pieces on Higher Education for a change of sorts: i) A trenchant piece for University World News by Nishat Riaz & Mary Stiasny, Universities have a duty beyond the production of knowledge https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2024102508233637 ii) a cool, detached look … Continue reading
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