Dr Angela Gallagher
@angelatgallagher.bsky.social
Applied linguist, teacher, action researcher www.ecml.at/actionresearch, community gardener. Escapee from UKHE. Interested in languages, higher education, history. Londoner, Germanist, Francophile, #cfc & #cfcw fan.
Please support colleagues in Modern Languages at Nottingham c.org/xGDzkLX8Vs
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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Please support colleagues in Modern Languages at Nottingham c.org/xGDzkLX8Vs
On Ireland specifically but same applies in the UK www.thejournal.ie/readme/opini...
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
On Ireland specifically but same applies in the UK www.thejournal.ie/readme/opini...
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Another grim read on language learning: 'The belief that the rest of the world can and should speak English is rarely spoken aloud: it sits uncomfortably with the tolerance and diversity that most of us want to show'
Wrote about this slow, miserable drift away from modern languages for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year.
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another grim read on language learning: 'The belief that the rest of the world can and should speak English is rarely spoken aloud: it sits uncomfortably with the tolerance and diversity that most of us want to show'
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Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
With several open access articles, including on inequalities in access to language education & primary languages
What effect do school policies have on uptake and achievement in languages at Key Stage 4?
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
Language Education in the Curriculum
Explore the article collection: Language Education in the Curriculum. Published in The Language Learning Journal.
www.tandfonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
With several open access articles, including on inequalities in access to language education & primary languages
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Fancy a taste of #Portuguese language? Join our free online Portuguese taster session. Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/disco...
Session organised by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language at the University of Leeds and delivered by Carmem Mackle (Lecturer in Portuguese).
Session organised by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language at the University of Leeds and delivered by Carmem Mackle (Lecturer in Portuguese).
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Fancy a taste of #Portuguese language? Join our free online Portuguese taster session. Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/disco...
Session organised by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language at the University of Leeds and delivered by Carmem Mackle (Lecturer in Portuguese).
Session organised by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language at the University of Leeds and delivered by Carmem Mackle (Lecturer in Portuguese).
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So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
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Shame that Number 10 still hasn’t.
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Shame that Number 10 still hasn’t.
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NEW
Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/either-pub...
Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/either-pub...
Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match
emptycity.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
NEW
Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/either-pub...
Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/either-pub...
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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In the whole half century period since the dictator Idi Amin's expelled migrants in 1972, can anybody identify any *democratic* government at all that has stripped past grants of permanent residence from a large number of legal migrants & removed/expelled them?
The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In the whole half century period since the dictator Idi Amin's expelled migrants in 1972, can anybody identify any *democratic* government at all that has stripped past grants of permanent residence from a large number of legal migrants & removed/expelled them?
Interesting & important read on publishing in English when it's not your 1st language: 'Language barriers have long influenced who is heard in science. AI tools now offer a way to close the gap, but without care, they risk reinforcing the very biases they aim to solve'
Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/20/g...
Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Interesting & important read on publishing in English when it's not your 1st language: 'Language barriers have long influenced who is heard in science. AI tools now offer a way to close the gap, but without care, they risk reinforcing the very biases they aim to solve'
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The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.
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In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Vets should be made to publish prices, watchdog says.
Energy, water, internet, phone, train, banks, grocery companies publish prices, doesn't prevent profiteering.
Too many vets owned by corporations & private equity.
How about stopping takeovers, fines and cancelled licences for profiteering
Energy, water, internet, phone, train, banks, grocery companies publish prices, doesn't prevent profiteering.
Too many vets owned by corporations & private equity.
How about stopping takeovers, fines and cancelled licences for profiteering
Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says
Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Vets should be made to publish prices, watchdog says.
Energy, water, internet, phone, train, banks, grocery companies publish prices, doesn't prevent profiteering.
Too many vets owned by corporations & private equity.
How about stopping takeovers, fines and cancelled licences for profiteering
Energy, water, internet, phone, train, banks, grocery companies publish prices, doesn't prevent profiteering.
Too many vets owned by corporations & private equity.
How about stopping takeovers, fines and cancelled licences for profiteering
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#edchatie
“The study of literature and history, art and music, language and culture, helps us to develop empathy and compassion, the very things that make us a human in the first place. Get rid of those and you are losing a lot more than you realise.”
👏🏻 Well said!
“The study of literature and history, art and music, language and culture, helps us to develop empathy and compassion, the very things that make us a human in the first place. Get rid of those and you are losing a lot more than you realise.”
👏🏻 Well said!
October 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#edchatie
“The study of literature and history, art and music, language and culture, helps us to develop empathy and compassion, the very things that make us a human in the first place. Get rid of those and you are losing a lot more than you realise.”
👏🏻 Well said!
“The study of literature and history, art and music, language and culture, helps us to develop empathy and compassion, the very things that make us a human in the first place. Get rid of those and you are losing a lot more than you realise.”
👏🏻 Well said!
'Language is health...'
Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
New research shows that reviving Indigenous languages may do more than preserve culture—it may also improve public health. In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language…
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
'Language is health...'
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Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently
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In der Nacht auf Montag rettete unsere Sea-Watch 5 79 Menschen, die Europas Abschottungspolitik im Stich lässt. Der zugewiesene Hafen ist La Spezia, weshalb sie erst am Freitag in Sicherheit sein werden. Niemand sollte nach einer Rettung noch Tage auf Schutz warten müssen.
October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In der Nacht auf Montag rettete unsere Sea-Watch 5 79 Menschen, die Europas Abschottungspolitik im Stich lässt. Der zugewiesene Hafen ist La Spezia, weshalb sie erst am Freitag in Sicherheit sein werden. Niemand sollte nach einer Rettung noch Tage auf Schutz warten müssen.
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The UK is an international outlier.
Please share the first post!
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/a-preve...
Please share the first post!
#KeepCovidBoosters
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A Preventable Winter Crisis: Why Clinically Vulnerable People Need Your Help
This week, millions of Clinically Vulnerable people woke up to find out they no longer qualify for an NHS Covid vaccine. No letter. No announcement. Just a quiet change on a website - and a real shock...
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The UK is an international outlier.
Please share the first post!
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/a-preve...
Please share the first post!
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/a-preve...
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Restricting eligibility as a wave is growing...
One of the reasons used for dropping coverage in younger age groups, especially kids, was a lack of demand...for a medicine they told everyone wasn't necessary...🤦♂️
Not an issue nowadays, it seems...
One of the reasons used for dropping coverage in younger age groups, especially kids, was a lack of demand...for a medicine they told everyone wasn't necessary...🤦♂️
Not an issue nowadays, it seems...
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Restricting eligibility as a wave is growing...
One of the reasons used for dropping coverage in younger age groups, especially kids, was a lack of demand...for a medicine they told everyone wasn't necessary...🤦♂️
Not an issue nowadays, it seems...
One of the reasons used for dropping coverage in younger age groups, especially kids, was a lack of demand...for a medicine they told everyone wasn't necessary...🤦♂️
Not an issue nowadays, it seems...