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Thursday, 13th February (Cambridge)

1. Here’s what appears to be an open-access article from the Times Higher Education, The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redundancy-crisis-four-views-front-line Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across … Continue reading

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Thursday, 6th February (Cambridge)

1. Here, courtesy of The Lexical Lab newsletter, is the BBC’s history of its own involvement in English teaching, Do You Speak English? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026tw0 Even I’m too young to remember Walter and Connie, the first ‘English by television’ programme, but … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Thursday, 5th December (Cambridge)

1. There’s a TeachingEnglish webinar next Tuesday, 10th December, at 12.00 UK time withFiona Copland & Sue Garton on English as a school subject: learning effective practices from primary-sector English language teachers in the global south https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/english-school-subject-learning-effective Here’s their blurb: … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 3rd December (Richmond)

1. The October 2024 issue of ELTJ, vol. 78 Issue 4, was a special issue devoted to Generative Artificial Intelligence and ELT https://academic.oup.com/eltj/issue Lots of free access articles, including the editors’ introduction, Generative artificial intelligence and ELT, by Alessia Cogo, … Continue reading

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Thursday, 28th November (Cambridge)

1. First up today, a gleaning from last week’s TLS (Times Literary Supplement), from the Munich research group, CESifo, A Matter of Taste: The Negative Welfare Effect of Expert Judgments by Nicolas Lagios & Pierre-Guillaume Méon https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4991796# From the glitz … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 26th November (Richmond)

1. Some good clear analysis here from Carbon Brief of the final outcomes of COP 29 in Baku https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-baku/ Tidily sorted into sections, which might lend itself to a whole class activity with pairs of students each responsible for summarising/reporting … 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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