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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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Thursday, 20th August (Cres)
1. Alan Milburn has just completed a substantial report for the UK government on Young People and Work https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-people-and-work-interim-report PDFs of both the whole report and of the introductory section only below. This Review exists because today Britain faces a … Continue reading
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
Thursday, 26th March (Cambridge)
1. Rachael Fionda introduced me to Gwich’in language and culture and its rich website https://gwichin.ca/ in her NILE webinar on Language Policy and Language Pedagogy earlier this week. The Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (the Gwich’in language) is spoken by fewer than … Continue reading
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Tagged Amjad Iraqi, Carne Ross, Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik, Gaza, Gwich'in, Iran, israel, middle-east, No More Marking, politics, Reichs and Republics
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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
Thursday, 12th February (Cambridge)
1. The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has a very good reputation for its analysis, especially (and not surprisingly) regarding Russia. Here’s their 2026 report, International Security and Estonia https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2026/en/ PDFs of both the whole report and the summary only below. … Continue reading
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Tagged A I Trends, Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, Europe, hillo, holla, Hullo, nato, politics, russia, The durian, The Educationalist, ukraine
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Tuesday, 20th January (Cambridge)
1. From Andy Brock’s Re Education blog, Education Predictions 2026, from a very wide range of contributors https://abrock.substack.com/p/re-education-issue-27-education-predictions Trying to make sense looking backwards is hard enough, but to look forwards when things seem constantly changeable is even more demanding. … Continue reading
Thursday, 15th January (Richmond)
1. An online event at (from?) The Cambridge REAL Centre on Thursday 22nd January at 16:00 UK time, the presentation of their report, Palestinian Education Still Under Attack: Restoration, Recovery, Rights and Responsibilities in and through Education Also in person … Continue reading
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Tagged Education in Palestine, Gaza, hamas, Iqbal Ahmed, israel, Katja Hoyer, Margaret Robertson, Palestine, politics, REAL Centre, Tin T, Tin T Dang, WhatsApp, Zeitgeist
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Thursday, 18th December (Cambridge)
This slightly longer than normal Free Resources message will be the last one till Tuesday 6th January. If you’re celebrating Christmas, be sure to make the most of it, and I wish everyone peace and happiness for 2026! 1. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain's Best High Streets, British Council, Dirty Dozen, education, English UK, Global Perceptions, Globe of History, House of Lords, Ipsos, news, Pesticide Action Network, politics, Some typefaces feel different, sustainability, technology, Veracity Index, Working from home
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