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Thursday, 10th September (Zagreb)
1. The YouGov daily omnibus opinion poll is always worth a look. Yesterday’s, conducted on (rather than with?) 4,506 GB adults https://yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260909-8d692-1 included the following three items: a) surprisingly strong support for the UK government’s decision to ban the import … Continue reading
Tuesday, 8th September (Zagreb)
LinkedIn newsletter version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tuesday-8th-september-zagreb-roy-cross-bdute 1. Short notice (sorry!) of an IH London Teacher Portal webinar tomorrow, Wednesday 9th September, Fun apps and strategies in teaching writing, with Nawaf Almahdi https://teacherportal.ihlondon.com/course/webinars Scroll down the page to see the details of the … Continue reading
Thursday, 3rd September (Cres)
If it’s more convenient for you, and you have a LinkedIn account, you might like to subscribe to the new LinkedIn newsletter version of this Free Resources message https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thursday-3rd-september-cres-roy-cross-3oowe I’ll still be offering the WhatsApp, e-mail and blog versions: let … Continue reading
Tuesday, 1st September (Cres)
If it’s more convenient for you, and you have a LinkedIn account, you might prefer to subscribe to the new LinkedIn newsletter version of this Free Resources message here https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7499567271909031936 I’ll still be offering the WhatsApp, e-mail and blog versions: … Continue reading
Thursday, 27th August (Cres)
1. First up today, two pieces on language learning: a) A YouGov poll conducted in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, How do attitudes to language learning differ across Europe? https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55385-how-do-attitudes-to-language-learning-differ-across-europe b) Duolingo’s 2026 report on the people who … Continue reading
Tuesday, 25th August (Cres)
Claude has either just led me up the garden path half a dozen times or has enabled me to fix a complicated internet connection problem on this laptop – DNS this and DNS that – that I couldn’t have managed … Continue reading
Thursday, 20th August (Cres)
1. Alan Milburn has just completed a substantial report for the UK government on Young People and Work https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-people-and-work-interim-report PDFs of both the whole report and of the introductory section only below. This Review exists because today Britain faces a … Continue reading
Tuesday, 18th August (Cres)
1. More – perhaps the last word, for this blog at least – on Jason Arday, again from Tyler Austin Harper (whose Why I Quit the Tenure Track piece I included last Thursday) in The Atlantic, The Truths That Failed … Continue reading
Thursday, 13th August (Cres)
1. If you follow Geoff Jordan on LinkedIn, you’ll know that he’s a man of strong views https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-jordan-0a7658219/ Courtesy of Geoff, here’s a whole book of strong opinions to start with tonight, English Language Teaching Now and How It Could … Continue reading
Tuesday, 11th August (Cres)
1. Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist for Google Research and Google DeepMind, gave a talk at Princeton University earlier this year on Important Trends in AI: How Did We Get Here, What Can We Do Now, and Where are We Headed? … Continue reading
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