Author Archives: roycross

Thursday, 19th February (Cambridge)

1. To start us off today, a recent post by Daisy Christodoulou on her blog, No More Marking, Does a university education help you earn more? Maybe, but not in the way that you think https://substack.nomoremarking.com/p/does-a-university-education-help Over the last couple … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 17th February (Cambridge)

An AI focus for the first three of today’s offerings, possibly a bit doomy and gloomy … 1. You can read or listen to this alarmist (realist?) piece for Fortune by Jake Angelo, Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months … Continue reading

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Thursday, 12th February (Cambridge)

1. The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has a very good reputation for its analysis, especially (and not surprisingly) regarding Russia. Here’s their 2026 report, International Security and Estonia https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2026/en/ PDFs of both the whole report and the summary only below. … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 10th February (Cambridge)

1. First up today, one of those blog posts that I get the gist of, if not the detail: a persuasive but slightly strange blog post throughout which the author, Nik Bear Brown (is that a real name or a … Continue reading

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Thursday, 5th February (Cambridge)

I missed a post on Tuesday, as I was clearing out my parents’ house up in Yorkshire. Amongst (many!) other things, I found my father’s medal for the Under 12 100 yards from 1939 in the drawer of his desk … Continue reading

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Thursday, 29th January (Cambridge)

1. The recording of a good lecture by Lea Ypi that I went to on Monday evening, Are Revolutions Justified? https://www.youtube.com/live/wuMJTLOaCb4?si=BWvZeV-5l34RtMg- Guest appearance by David Miliband at the beginning, whose father, Ralph, Lea Ypi’s professorial chair at LSE commemorates. Listen … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 27th January (Cambridge)

1. The first of two I’ve pilfered from LinkedIn, this one from World Englishes, courtesy of Richard Smith (thank you, Richard!), WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics by Henry Widdowson https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/weng.70010 (PDF below as well.) Here’s … Continue reading

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Thursday, 22nd January (Cambridge)

1. FutureLearn’s list of “the most important skills and characteristics for teachers in a handy 10-point list”, What makes a good teacher? https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/what-makes-a-good-teacher Guess what’s included in their list before you read the piece! What does it mean to be … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 20th January (Cambridge)

1. From Andy Brock’s Re Education blog, Education Predictions 2026, from a very wide range of contributors https://abrock.substack.com/p/re-education-issue-27-education-predictions Trying to make sense looking backwards is hard enough, but to look forwards when things seem constantly changeable is even more demanding. … Continue reading

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Thursday, 15th January (Richmond)

1. An online event at (from?) The Cambridge REAL Centre on Thursday 22nd January at 16:00 UK time, the presentation of their report, Palestinian Education Still Under Attack: Restoration, Recovery, Rights and Responsibilities in and through Education Also in person … Continue reading

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