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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...known to constitute educational disadvantage. However, the researchers raise an important point for a future research agenda: how do teacher’s expectations of linguistically diverse students shape the learning experiences and academic trajectories of those students? This article was originally published by Language on the Move, where it can be read with full footnotes....
Yes, we still need International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Yes, we still need International Women's Day

...learn from the behaviour of this influential man she made explicit, as feminists have long done, the link between the personal and the political. Every minute of Michelle Obama’s 30 minute speech today is worth watching. https://t.co/ZlEX3YaU6a — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 13, 2016 Political discourse is rarely casual. Political speeches are carefully...
Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...learned a hard lesson in the wake of the Westminster terror attack. It had to apologise – and pull a repeat of its news programme – after wrongly naming a man still in prison as the terrorist. It wasn’t alone – a handful of other international news organisations jumped to the wrong conclusion too. Mistakes happen. But in the age of “fake news” and plummeting...
How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?
Money & Business

How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?

...learn from rival Delta, which was once one of the best-known airlines in America, highly profitable and popular with customers. Then the culture at Delta changed, and customer service suffered. Customers switched to other airlines and Delta went bankrupt. Now, Delta is thriving again, in large part due to its focus on keeping both staff and customers happy. Will the same...
Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...learn about our capacity for rapid change, they say, comes through examples drawn both from history and from the present day. Change needed now The study is published by the New Weather Institute and the STEPS Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change...
Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...learning. The ability to cope with education in a non-native language depends on a number of factors, such as level of English proficiency – which varies significantly across the world. English built into the system Some solutions to these problems have focused on devising language policies which are meant to safeguard local languages. For instance, many Nordic...
Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Society, Politics & Law

Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer

...learnings from the screening and the discussion. You can see some of the responses in this pdf. Here’s a few quotes from participants’ comments: ‘Great film and discussion about freedom to move – Alia Syed, hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how who we are enables greater or lesser freedom of movement. Very thought-provoking’ ‘It’s made me wonder...
Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...learning further with a free course References Bracken, P., Thomas, P., Timimi, S., Asen, E., Behr, G., Beuster, C. et al. (2012) ‘Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm’, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 201, pp.430–434. British Psychological Society (2013) Time for a Paradigm Shift in Psychiatric Diagnosis Horwitz, Allan and Wakefield, Jerome, (2007) The...