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edwyplenel.bsky.social
Rendez-vous dimanche 23 novembre à 19h au cinéma parisien « Les 3 Luxembourg » pour une projection-débat du remarquable film de Sepideh Farsi, en hommage à Fatima Hassouna, photojournaliste palestinienne assassinée par l’armée israélienne à Gaza.
👉 www.lestroisluxembourg.com/evenement/21...
Annonce par le cinéma parisien « Les 3 Luxembourg » de la projection-débat du film de Sepideh Farsi « Put your soul on your hand and walk »
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
No, we didn't make it up; we did it. 'Apprentissage actionnel' in..... well..... action: frenchatstirling.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...
Powder, Rouge, and Revolution: Learning French Through Make-Up
We’re already into our fourth week of teaching at Stirling and it’s great to see students back in the classrooms again after the summer, learning about everything from the French Atlantic slave tra…
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October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
European Day of Languages! frenchatstirling.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/e...
European Day of Languages 2025
Happy European Day of Languages, everyone! Yes, it’s that time of year again and, once again, we’re celebrating by showing off the fantastic range of languages spoken by staff and students across o…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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literatureireland.bsky.social
A month in books: August 2025

Literature Ireland's Translation Grant programme invites international publishers to apply for a contribution towards the translation of Irish literature from English or Irish into another language.

Last month we received copies of 10 titles in 10 languages:
September 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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cforsdick.bsky.social
UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme

www.ft.com/content/c79d...
UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme
Tender indicates ministers are preparing ground to rejoin European student swap programme
www.ft.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Excellent post by @matthewbarnard.phd which includes this insightful point about UKHE's 'hostility towards intellectualism' 👇

Thank you for writing the piece @matthewbarnard.phd
The present crisis on UK Higher Education is primarily a crisis of funding but it is also a crisis of conviction and of hostility towards intellectualism and any other forms of expertise. It's a crisis that requires trade unionism, along with its respect for 'the trades' themselves. It may sound odd to describe academia as 'a trade', but it is. And, like any trade, it is vulnerable to false claims of redundancy.
August 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
'We rarely describe care and pastoral work as leadership'
wonkhe.bsky.social Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Aug 16
This week on Wonkhe: Taking part in the Global Majority Mentoring Programme prompted Jaya Gajparia to reflect on the limitations of current leadership development practice
Higher education could make space for many types of leader and ways of leading
Taking part in the Global Majority Mentoring Programme prompted Jaya Gajparia to reflect on the limitations of current leadership development practice
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August 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
And yet these will be the key subjects as creativity, empathy and critical thinking become the most important facets of living in an automated world. We have got almost everything about post-16 education wrong. We need to go back to the beginning. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Concern over plunging demand for arts and humanities A-levels - Research Professional News
Experts say “ridiculously narrow” UK post-16 education system is overweighting scientific courses
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
' Across the EU, nearly half of all pupils in upper secondary education learn two or more foreign languages.' www.ft.com/content/c9f3...
Lost in translation
Even in the language app era there are benefits to learning a foreign tongue
www.ft.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision?
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Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences, said it was "sensible for universities to have more regional conversations about how they provide languages to students". But he believed the bigger and "longer-term question is, what languages do we think we need strategic provision in nationally, and how should that be safeguarded? "It would for example be geopolitically unwise to find ourselves without capable Russian or Chinese speakers. While it's easy to turn off the tap, it's much harder to turn it back on.
August 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
New @hepi-news.bsky.social report shows continued fall in foreign language study in England at A-level.

Language teacher recruitment consistently falls well below government targets – in 2024, just 43% of the target was reached.

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(Full report www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...)
Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds
Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German
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July 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
To be clear, there is much to disagree with in this piece too!
July 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
Worrying times for universities but 'courts and councils [...] should ensure that senior officers and trade union reps are enabled to challenge heads of institutions and bring any concerns they have to the governing body'. wonkhe.com/blogs/dundee...
Dundee’s troubles and the state of the sector
For all the damning findings of the Gillies report into the University of Dundee, David Duncan argues that the wider problems with funding in Scotland must form part of the debate
wonkhe.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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wonkhe.bsky.social
NEW on Wonkhe: The composition of REF panels is a litmus test for how seriously the sector takes its commitments to diversity, argue Louise Bracken, Elizabeth Stokoe, Nick Brook, and Rachel Woolley buff.ly/j7UElxW
July 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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donalh.bsky.social
Two fully-funded 4 year PhD positions on this fascinating project about the temporalities of Global fascism, one focused on South Africa and one on another context outside of Italy or Germany. In a great department with a wonderful supervisor. Share widely. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...
PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Explore a PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
3-year post French language programme coordinator, Dublin (Trinity): universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Language Coordinator (French), 3-year fixed term contract | University Vacancies Ireland
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July 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
On Monday 7 July the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Dame Angela McLean will be discussing the value of the humanities and social sciences in the delivery of her priorities.
Watch along on the livestream at 2.30pm
vimeo.com/event/5202389
In Conversation with Professor Dame Angela McLean: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Policymaking
Hear from Dame Angela on the value of the humanities and social sciences in delivery of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser’s (GCSA) priorities in putting…
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July 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
Woo hoo!! Our finalists at Stirling graduate today. We are so proud of you! frenchatstirling.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/2...
2025 French Finalists
It’s graduation week 2025 and time to offer congratulations to all the Stirling students for whom this is such an important moment. But a special congratulations to our wonderful 2025 finalists in …
frenchatstirling.wordpress.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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luisgomes.bsky.social
Regrettably, Foreign Languages continue to be marked too harshly at GCSE. Nobody wants ‘easy’ grades, but fairness is a good starting point.

@ucflangs.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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franceculture.fr
Ce week-end, il fera plus de 30 degrés presque partout en France.
Certains iront chercher un coin d’ombre. D’autres, un bassin.
Et si on vous disait que l’histoire de la piscine commence… dans un vivier à poissons de la Rome antique ?
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/4D7
June 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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houseofcommons.parliament.uk
The Education Committee wants to understand what is needed to secure a sustainable financial future for the Higher Education sector.

Share your views: committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...
June 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
1 year post: Commissioning Editor or Senior Commissioning Editor for Modern Languages and Postcolonial Studies
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jun 20
Find out more about our Commissioning Editor / Senior Commissioning Editor role. Applications close on Monday 30th June ⬇️
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jun 12
We're hiring a Commissioning Editor / Senior Commissioning Editor (dependent on experience) for a one-year maternity cover. The full job description and details about applying are at the link below. Applications close on Monday 30th June.
bit.ly/JobVacSCE #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing
June 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Find out more about our Commissioning Editor / Senior Commissioning Editor role. Applications close on Monday 30th June ⬇️
June 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
tandi-stirling.bsky.social
And on and on it goes....
June 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM