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1. There’s now a YouTube version of all The Climate Connection podcasts with subtitles, which will make them accessible to an even larger audience, I hope https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvCfA99qTst_6OFwglDJmJmKZ4My_jCQ7 2. The next ELT Footprint UK https://eltfootprint.uk/ event is at 14:00 UK time … Continue reading →

1. The first of no fewer than three sneak previews today of new publications on English Medium Instruction/Education in Higher Education, all with a gentle admonitory tone, my colleague Ann Veitch’s British Council  ‘perspective paper’ on English in higher education … Continue reading →

1. Ample notice, I hope, for you to make your choice from the wide range of TeachingEnglish events on 5th October in celebration of World Teachers’ Day 2021; more information and registration here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/world-teachers-day-2021 2. Free for only one more … Continue reading →

We’ll have a Multilingual Monday instead! 1. It’s been quite a while since I had a look at the UKFIET website. A good piece by Maiya Hershey, Harry Haynes and Ben Webster has gone up just today, Learning Ecosystems: Reimagining … Continue reading →

1. First up tonight, an invitation from my colleague Paul Braddock to give a webinar for the TeachingEnglish community. Come on now, don’t be shy! Full details in the PDF below. 2. Second, an invitation from my colleague Graham Stanley … Continue reading →

1. Scotland’s Climate Assembly https://www.climateassembly.scot/ sent out 20,000 invitations to randomly selected households across Scotland. Of those who responded, 105 people were invited to take part in the Assembly. Assembly members were selected to be broadly representative of Scotland’s population … Continue reading →

Sorry about the hiccup on Friday! Earlier than usual today, as I’m off down to London to celebrate Vietnamese National Day. 1. There’s scope for a good class discussion based on these two very short videos from the Royal National … Continue reading →

1. This year’s Einar Haugen Lecture at Oslo University will be given by Aneta Pavlenko at 14:15 UK time next Friday, 24th September. Described as “a tour in a time machine, starting out in Ptolemaic Alexandria in 323 BC and … Continue reading →

1. A blog post by Nick Michelioudakis for Oxford University Press, to start with, How To Turn Reading Into A Habit https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2021/09/10/reading-habit/ I’m feeling a little mischievous, so will point out that Nick’s writing about a world of dental floss, … Continue reading →

1. There’s still time to enter the Climate Action for Language Education (CALE) school video competition https://www.britishcouncil.org/climate-connection/get-involved/action-language-education/school-video-competition I left out one very important partner when I first mentioned this competition last Tuesday, namely IATEFL Global Issues SIG (GISIG) https://gisig.iatefl.org/ Sorry, … Continue reading →