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In the time and space between jobs. A user guide.

This morning marks a full week that I’ve been out of work. Conscious of the fact that this is a relatively common experience, particularly in academia (though far from exclusively), I’ve drafted a user guide on how to deal with this period. I hope it is of use. I’ve put a downloadable version on the…

Reflecting on NCELP and what comes next.

If you follow language education news, you will likely have seen the Department for Education’s announcement that the latest tender for the Centre of Excellence to support MFL teaching has not been awarded to NCELP, the National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy, but to a competitor, meaning NCELP, who were awarded the 2018 tender,…

Dropping Languages

Did that title make you think – WHAT? If ‘Hilary’ and ‘dropping languages’ in the same sentence made you incredulous, then that is because the prospect of me dropping languages and thereby limiting my ability to speak (cue jokes from my Dad here) is ludicrous. Aside from my unwillingness to do so, I can’t unlearn…

What’s in a grade? Some Friday thoughts…

What’s in a grade? Our lives are organized around them, pass or fail, grades A*-U, 1-9, distinction, merit, first-class, second-class first division, second class second division, third class and so on. They can be a source of joy and one of torment, but how much do they really matter? I’ve been thinking about this a…

In conversation with…Dr Phil Armstrong

In the second of my In conversation with … series I talk with Dr Phil Armstrong, arguably the UK’s leading scholar on MMT, modern monetary theory. Phil is a graduate of the universities of Leeds, Hull and Southampton Solent, the author of Can Heterodox Economics Make a Difference? Conversations with Key Thinkers, (Edward Elgar Publishing,…

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