Monthly Archives: February 2025

Thursday, 27th February (Cambridge)

Posted on February 27, 2025 by roycross

1. Two recent posts about young children’s behavioural development on the BOLD blog: Do tablets help or hinder children’s play? with Salim Hashmi & Kathryn Bates https://boldscience.org/do-tablets-help-or-hinder-childrens-play/ When children are with another person, they tend to benefit from playing on … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 25th February (Richmond)

Posted on February 25, 2025 by roycross

1. Lost England, a gallery of photos from 1870 to 1930 from The Guardian to start with today, including one of the labour-intensive construction of the Manchester ship canal in 1889 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/nov/28/lost-england-photographs-from-1870-to-1930 2. The longlist for this year’s International Booker … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 20th February (Cambridge)

Posted on February 20, 2025 by roycross

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. SHORT NOTICE: 18:30 UK time tomorrow, Friday 21st February, an RSA online event, Russia’s war in a global perspective, with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, and BBC journalist Clive Myrie. More … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 18th February (Richmond)

Posted on February 18, 2025 by roycross

1. There’s a MenTRnet panel discussion at 13:00 UK time this coming Saturday, 22nd February, Integrating teacher-research into pre-service teacher education. More info and registration here https://mentrnet.net/integrating-teacher-research-into-pre-service-teacher-education-festival-event/ Mentoring teacher-research is often conceived of as an activity to engage in with … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 13th February (Cambridge)

Posted on February 13, 2025 by roycross

1. Here’s what appears to be an open-access article from the Times Higher Education, The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redundancy-crisis-four-views-front-line Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 11th February (Richmond)

Posted on February 11, 2025 by roycross

1. Time flies! It seems only yesterday I mentioned a Macmillan online teacher festival (but it was November). Their 5th annual Global Teachers’ Festival has rather crept up on me: it started yesterday (it was all recorded, don’t worry!) and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 4th February (Richmond)

Posted on February 6, 2025 by roycross

Not quite sure what happened on Tuesday! Better late than never? 1. This one has been around the social media block several times but it’s still worth a read, The Anglo-EU Translation Guide https://polish2english.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/55551980-anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf  Do you hear what I say? … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 6th February (Cambridge)

Posted on February 6, 2025 by roycross

1. Here, courtesy of The Lexical Lab newsletter, is the BBC’s history of its own involvement in English teaching, Do You Speak English? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026tw0 Even I’m too young to remember Walter and Connie, the first ‘English by television’ programme, but … Continue reading →

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