Andy Gillett

Using English for Academic Purposes: For Students in Higher Education.

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[Andy Gillett @UEfAP]

Margaret Thatcher’s Victorian values?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

I'm reading a book about Victorian London. Shocking housing conditions, rampant rough sleeping, widespread begging, child malnutrition, overcrowded prisons and sewage spilling into the Thames. Hard to imagine.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

The big difference between fraudulent covid loans and student loans is that fraudulent covid loans are happily written off

[Andy Gillett @UEfAP]

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[Writing For Research @Write4Research]

Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? - Impact of Social Sciences https://t.co/yAlfnUBgjs

[Colm Downes @ColminIndonesia]

Yesterday my friend Dorothy in America posted this.

"I try to be a good person.

I also try to be a good citizen. I vote. I pay taxes (cheerfully, even! I was just speaking with my accountant on the 14th, and I asked if I had EVER heard me complain about paying taxes themselves—and he had to say, no. Paperwork, deadlines, sure, but I am happy to contribute to the communities I live in).

I read the news, including local, state, national, and international. I read more than one source. I attend (some, not all) town and community policy meetings, and I speak up when I have something to say. I call and write my representatives to let them know what issues are important in my community. I obey laws. (I don’t even speed!) I pick up trash on public lands when I am out hiking. I clean up after myself, and do my best to reduce my carbon footprint.

I know my neighbors by sight and by name. We share resources; we talk; we hold block parties. I value our micro-community, and the ever-widening circles of other communities, including the ones that expand beyond our national borders. I am not someone who posts that I “hate people.”

I donate, both time and money—primarily to environmental organizations, but sometimes to education and the arts. I believe in free public education and municipal, state, and national parks. I believe in affordable housing, a realistic minimum wage, public transportation, and access to health care. I believe in the importance of clean air and water, and the health of the land that supports our native animals and plants. I value free access to music, art, theater, and dance, because these add joy and meaning to our lives.

I certainly do not claim perfection, but I do my best to be a tolerant and kind person. I am 100% not bothered by hearing a language other than English; I am unbothered by whatever pronouns a person chooses, and I fully support their right to marry whom they love. I do not care what skin color someone has, though I acknowledge that historically different groups - and not the one I was born into by chance - were disadvantaged because of race, and that this affects those groups still today. I believe all genders are of equal value.

I freely acknowledge my country has problems. We need more affordable housing and better public transportation. We desperately need to protect and heal our environment. We struggle with how to respond to AI and figure out what it might mean for education, the workforce, and what it means to be human. We need access to affordable health care and safe food and water. We have to figure out what to do with an aging population and a declining birthrate, and we need to address the ever-widening gap between the super wealthy and the very poor, and among different genders and ethnicities. But I also believe there are solutions to problems, and that a partial solution is still better than giving up or denying a problem exists.

Because of these views, the president of my country has called me vile, sick, vermin, radical, evil, a lunatic, scum, and has said he hates me and wishes he could put me in jail (or worse). He is threatening cities in my state with military attacks and withholding previously appropriated funding.

I happen to disagree with his characterizations of me and with his actions. I will be rallying tomorrow not because I “hate America” but because I love it. When I see my country taking a dark turn, I believe it is my duty as well as my right to stand up, show up, and say so. It’s called a “No Kings” rally because we do not want a dictator. We do not want a leader who will ignore or break the laws. We do not want public servants (and that is what elected officials are - public servants) taking public money and using it for themselves. We do not want lies, threats, intimidation, and turning the military on peaceful civilians. We do not want a king."

#NoKings

[Debbie Cameron @wordspinster]

Seeing loads of misunderstandings of the govt's new rules on English language for visa applicants, probably because they've been presented/reported in such a confusing way, as "in future migrants will need to have A level standard English" /1

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Jenrick says 'it's not about the colour of people's skin'. It's just that he didn't see a single white face. That's not even logically coherent.

[prof pat thomson @ThomsonPat]

It helps to understand the difference and relationship between research results and claims. https://t.co/Eo4Xt9N7F6

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We’re at a dangerous moment in our country - where refugees are being blamed for all society's problems. While the super-rich, who really caused these problems, are busy taking more and more wealth from working class people.

For 40 years, the ideas launched by Thatcher - cuts, deregulation and privatisation - have meant attack after attack on working-class living standards. The last decade and a half of austerity made things even worse.

Instead of holding the billionaire class to account - those who have stolen the wealth created by ordinary people - Farage and his allies are scapegoating refugees and are being cheered on by our billionaire-owned media.

But hatred and division won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. In fact, Farage and his mates voted against stronger workers’ rights in Parliament recently. They want the NHS replaced with a private system.

The only thing this politics of distraction, hatred and division achieves is to protect our rigged economic system - so that the super-rich can keep getting richer, while everyone else is left worse off.

Let's be clear: the cause of the problems in our society is the tiny elite hoarding the vast majority of our country’s wealth. Refugees fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for collapsing living standards, falling wages, or bringing our NHS to its knees.

So instead of this 'divide and rule', let's unite and build a country that really serves the 99% - not the super-rich.

Let's impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, let's build huge numbers of council houses, let's bring water and energy back into public ownership and let's kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

That's how we can build a better future for ordinary people.

[Andy Gillett @UEfAP]

BBC: The amount of students getting top A-level results is expected to be broadly similar to 2024, after years of flux as a result of the Covid pandemic.

Surely they mean the “number” of students.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

A Czech billionaire has bought Royal Mail, Italy owns a UK rail franchise, India runs the steel industry and now a Chinese infrastructure group is set to pick up Thames Water for next to nothing. Is this what Brexiteers meant by Take Back Control?

[Andy Gillett @UEfAP]

@JonTonge Who suggests that you should? APA7 doesn’t!

[prof pat thomson @ThomsonPat]

Build your writing repertoire. 50 strategies. https://t.co/wjjsbUWVNq

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[David__Osland @David__Osland]

The richest 1% of people in the UK are worth £2.8 trillion. Tell me again why a Labour government needs to cut benefits for the disabled.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

You have to larf when news outlets say that Gaza has had little attention on account of the War against Iran. No, guys, it had little attention because you gave it...er...little attention.

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[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Dear Mr Starmer
Are there many examples of the children of migrants to this country who go to school but don't or can't learn English? My mother spoke one language at home and only learnt English at school. She went on to be a primary school teacher.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Year 6 teachers, I hope you'll remember that some of us know that the Grammar test coming up was devised purely in order to assess you on the false premise that 'Grammar' has 'right/wrong answers'. Plus: much of the 'grammar' in the test is wrong, misguided or not even 'grammar'.