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Thursday, 1st October (Cambridge)
Also fifty years ago, at much the same time as my first visit to The Queen’s Head, we were soundly thrashed on ‘University Challenge’ by the University of Hull – who’d been practising their buzzer technique and, unlike any of … Continue reading
Thursday, 17th September (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ Back home in Cambridge at last! Today’s photo is of the sculpture in the roll call square (Appellplatz) at Dachau Concentration Camp, which we visited for the first time on the way home, despite having lived just … Continue reading
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Tagged A Fabulous Debt, Anne Applebaum, Farage is Faltering, fascism, germany, history, hitler, Howard Davies, Lewis Nielsen, MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption, politics, Rob Drummond & Michael Rosen, The Far Right is Not, The Jews Who Voted for Hitler, Timothy W. Ryback, Voices of Manchester
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Tuesday, 19th May (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. Here’s one I put aside a while back and lost sight of, a piece in University World News, Huge progress on widening HE access globally since 2000, which looks in some detail at higher education in … Continue reading
Tuesday, 3rd March (Cambridge)
1. Green Action ELT’s next event, Backwards into the future? How sustainable is AI in ELT?, is at 14:00 UK time this coming Friday, 6th March: more info and registration here https://green-action-elt.uk/events/ The rise of Large Language Models is transforming … Continue reading
Tuesday, 27th January (Cambridge)
1. The first of two I’ve pilfered from LinkedIn, this one from World Englishes, courtesy of Richard Smith (thank you, Richard!), WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics by Henry Widdowson https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/weng.70010 (PDF below as well.) Here’s … Continue reading
Tuesday, 4th March (Richmond)
1. NATESOL’s 41st Annual Conference, Learners and Learning, is on Saturday 17th May and is a hybrid event, online via Zoom or on-site at Manchester Metropolitan University. All speakers get to attend free and the deadline for the submission of … Continue reading
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Tagged cuttlefish, education, eltj, english, history, natesol, teaching, teachingenglish, writing
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Tuesday, 4th February (Richmond)
Not quite sure what happened on Tuesday! Better late than never? 1. This one has been around the social media block several times but it’s still worth a read, The Anglo-EU Translation Guide https://polish2english.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/55551980-anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf Do you hear what I say? … Continue reading
Thursday, 30th January (Cambridge)
1. Here’s the UK National Archives (NA) video on the Beveridge Report of 1942 https://youtu.be/e-vGHp4P9LU Sir William Beveridge’s report laid the foundations of the modern British welfare state and the National Health Service (in the middle of the Second World … Continue reading
