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Thursday, 23rd January (Cambridge)
1. A lot of the stuff on tools4Dev you have to pay for, but their blog often has interesting (free!) posts, like this one, How to Write a Monitoring and Evaluation Report https://tools4dev.org/blog/how-to-write-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-report/ and this one, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools … Continue reading
Tuesday, 21st January (Richmond)
1. I guess we’re all holding our breath and crossing our fingers on Gaza right now. The New Zealand poet, David Howard, whose sequence of poems about a Croatian-Māori family, Mate, I included last year (on 30th April, to be … Continue reading
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Thursday, 16th January (Cambridge)
1. No fewer than six online (and f2f, if you’re in/near Cambridge) seminars from the REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) Centre here in Cambridge over the next three months. This is the Eventbrite page for the first in … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 14th January (Richmond)
1. John Kampfner’s latest post on his blog, Citizen of Everywhere, on the next – anything’s possible, he reminds us! – prime minister of Germany, Could the AfD seize power? https://johnkampfner.substack.com/p/could-the-afd-seize-power 2. A piece for World University News about determined … Continue reading
Thursday, 9th January (Cambridge)
1. From Der Spiegel International, an account of the apogee (or the nadir: take your pick) of capitalism, One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/one-of-the-most-dangerous-routes-in-the-world-the-darien-gap-migrant-highway-courtesy-of-the-mafia-a-51daa801-f513-462a-b8e2-7f2cab11f04a The cartel operates … Continue reading
Tuesday, 7th January (Richmond)
1. From NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Future Signals – what we (NESTA) are watching for in 2025 https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-signals-2025/ Their list includes, among others The Minister’s menu: could the government subsidise healthy food through … Continue reading
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Free Resources Christmas Bonus
Three more NYT gift articles, to use up my monthly allowance before I lose it: close readings by A. O. Scott of three poems a) Diane Seuss https://tinyurl.com/deawzhue b) Philip Larkin https://tinyurl.com/4f8zdx9c and c) Frank O’Hara https://tinyurl.com/33whwknn Plus, a number … Continue reading
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Thursday, 19th December (Cambridge)
1. The inaugural issue of the ELT Classroom Research Journal has just been published https://eltcrj.com/v1i1/ The ELT Classroom Research Journal is for teachers to share their insights with peers across the globe in a manner that is practical and approachable … Continue reading
Tuesday, 17th December (Richmond)
1. The Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain appears to have had a rush of blood to the head when he was asked recently to give a talk to his local primary school about the birth of Jesus, according to this piece … Continue reading
Thursday, 12th December (Hull)
Larkin included today, as I’m visiting friends who live near Hull on the way home to Cambridge. 1. Two tools for teaching and modelling vocabulary in the early years from Lauren Grocott of EEF (the Education Endowment Foundation) https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/early-years/two-tools-for-teaching-and-modelling-vocabulary-in-the-early-years Lots … Continue reading
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