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To NILE with Love: Stepping Stones in Trainer Development

Posted on November 7, 2025 by roycross

Margit Szesztay and Uwe Pohl are organising an event from Budapest at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Saturday 8th November, in celebration of NILE’s 30th anniversary, To NILE with Love: Stepping Stones in Trainer Development. Home made PDF attached and registration … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 6th November (Cambridge)

Posted on November 6, 2025 by roycross

1. On Thursday next week, 13th November, at 15:00 UK time there’s an ECML webinar for teachers and teacher trainers at primary and secondary level on “Mediation in teaching, learning and assessment” which will present the achievements of the ECML … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 4th November (Richmond)

Posted on November 4, 2025 by roycross

1. You get generous (and nonetheless slightly frustrating) extracts from the London Review of Books Novel Approaches podcast here https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/ Try the latest one on Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ with Andrew O’Hagan, Tom Crewe and Clare Bucknell https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/novel-approaches-kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson 2. This … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 30th October (Cambridge)

Posted on October 30, 2025 by roycross

1. ‘The more languages you know, the better you are’: learners’ pride in being multilingual and their motivation for language learning is a recent open-access Taylor & Francis article by Giulia Sulis & Sarah Mercer from Graz University and Astrid … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 28th October (Richmond)

Posted on October 28, 2025 by roycross

1. The big news this morning is that both the governing Labour party and the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, have hit an all-time low in popularity. I’ve just re-subscribed to The Times (for £1 for three months) and here’s their … Continue reading →

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Wednesday, 22nd October (Cambridge)

Posted on October 22, 2025 by roycross

A little early, this post, as I’m on grandpa duty tomorrow. 1. Tax the rich — and save the planet is the title of a TED talk back in the summer by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_tax_the_rich_and_save_the_planet Nobel Prize-winning … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 21st October (Richmond)

Posted on October 21, 2025 by roycross

1. First up today, the latest version of Ethan Mollick’s (Opinionated) Guide to Using AI https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai Click on the images to enlarge them. Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI, but now I write … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 16th October (Cambridge)

Posted on October 16, 2025 by roycross

1. I am largely persuaded by More in Common’s social segmentation of Britain into seven https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/ After a global pandemic, a decade of political chaos and rising public anxiety about the cost of living and national security, Britons are increasingly … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 14th October (Richmond)

Posted on October 14, 2025 by roycross

1. Coral reefs are struggling to survive global warming. The video on this page shows them in their colourful glory and in their bleached fallen state https://global-tipping-points.org/case-studies/#coral I’d not come across Global Tipping Points before: here’s their home page https://global-tipping-points.org/ … Continue reading →

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Wednesday, 8th October (Cambridge)

Posted on October 8, 2025 by roycross

1. If you answer yes to any of these questions: then the ECML are pretty confident that their webinar at 15:00 UK time on Thursday 16th October, Supporting multilingual classrooms,will be of interest to you! More info here https://www.ecml.at/en/Resources/Webinars and … Continue reading →

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