1. 10 scenarios for education in 2035 https://edtechhub.org/evidence/10-scenarios-for-education-in-2035/ from the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org/ plus, a wealth of weekend reading in their Evidence Library https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/

2. The August issue of Humanising Language Teaching has just been published https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/ It includes:

i) details of an online Event to Honour the Memory of Mario Rinvolucri on Sunday 28^th September https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/event-to-honour-the-memory-of-mario-rinvolucri

ii) a piece by Vicky Saumell on GenAI’s Environmental Impact: Current State and Strategies for Mitigation https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/genais-environmental-impact

iii) a piece by David Heathfield, Tell Our Stories to the World – Fighting Oblivion in Gaza https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/tell-our-stories-to-the-world

3. From the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025: addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/18053f75-4c71-4a35-a0d9-1eb2fe204364

Some of the report’s key findings:

• Updated global estimates point to signs of a decrease in world hunger in recent years.
• It is estimated that between 638 and 720 million people, corresponding to 7.8 and 8.8 percent of the global population, respectively, faced hunger in 2024.
• About 2.3 billion people in the world are estimated to have been moderately or severely food insecure in 2024.
• Food prices rose throughout 2023 and 2024, pushing up the average cost of a healthy diet globally.
• Despite the increase in food prices during 2024, the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet in the world fell from 2.76 billion in 2019 to 2.60 billion in 2024. However, the number increased in Africa from 864 million to just over 1 billion in this period.
• Accelerated progress is needed to achieve the 2030 global targets for key indicators of child malnutrition.
• New updates of the prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years reveal an increase in the global prevalence from 27.6 to 30.7 percent.
• Globally, about one-third of children aged 6 to 23 months and two-thirds of women aged 15 to 49 years achieved minimum dietary diversity.

The FAO World Hunger map, their World Food Insecurity map, and a PDF of the report all attached!

4. Jack Dickens of Engelsberg Ideas In conversation with Elisabeth Kendall on what the Houthis really want https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/in-conversation-with-elisabeth-kendall-on-what-the-houthis-really-want/

Some really major things have changed in the region since 7 October. But would I say that it has been fundamentally reshaped? I think that is less clear just now, because there are so many persistent, intractable issues that haven’t changed. But let’s start first with what has changed. I think that one of the big ones is the tumbling of Iran’s longest-standing proxies.

5. And, finally, a ten-part adaptation of William Golding’s The Spire from BBC Radio 4 for your journey to and from work (and my next trip to Richmond) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g37p  Well read by John Heffernan and Lucy Davidson.