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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

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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

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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

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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-e2q4f1tContinue reading

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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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Thursday, 31st October (Cambridge)

1. First up, the answers to Tuesday’s ‘name the novels’ quiz in the document below. 2. I attended a powerful Hands Up Project (HUP) event online last Saturday on Emergent education in war zones. Here’s some of the links that … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 29th October (Richmond)

1. This year’s IATEFL Themes online conference is this coming Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November, and it’s 50% highlights from this year’s f2f conference in Brighton in April (on Saturday) and 50% Special Interest Group (SIG) presentations (on Sunday). … Continue reading

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Thursday, 24th October (Cambridge)

Some reading for the weekend! 1. First up tonight, a thought-provoking LinkedIn piece from Richard Culattta, Why we need to reconsider banning phones in schools https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-need-reconsider-banning-phones-schools-richard-culatta-q0d1e/ 2. Ceibal, now nearly twenty years old, was (and is) Uruguay’s imaginative response to … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 22nd October (Richmond)

1. Preply is one of the bigger online tutorial organisations. Their Online Teaching Conference 2024 starts this Thursday, 24th October, https://preply-tutors-conference-2024.vfairs.com/ PDF of programme below and here’s the high-octane blurb: Unlock your career potential: Connect, learn & grow. Get ready … Continue reading

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