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The myth of Akbar – the ‘Great’ | OPINION
When we read the medieval history of India, historians tell us that Akbar who established the great Mughal Empire in India was a great ruler. He is nicknamed "the Great" by these "eminent" historians. According to them, he was the…
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Literacy and Language Teaching Teacher Job
Location: Parcville
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Department/School: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Salary: Level E – $204,320 per year plus 17% super
Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne is…
Michael Sheen at Cheltenham: 13 reasons the Welsh think he’s lush
They are less than 100 miles away but in terms of image Cheltenham and Port Talbot could be light years away. But this week the towns are linked by the arrival of Michael Sheen in the spa town famous for its stunning architecture, Cotswold!-->…
Stephen Toope destroys Cambridge
You can say Cambridge University is not a meritocracy. If that were the case, Stephen Toope would never have become vice-chancellor. Filled with the post in 2017, the Canadian lawyer and human rights expert has spent his controversial…
I want to take HRT again at 71 to avoid dementia! written JENNI MURRAY
For so many years I was afraid of HRT and often warned others to be very careful before taking it. I was sitting in front of my breast cancer consultant in 2006 when I heard the words, “Are you taking HRT? "Yes," I replied, "I've been…
High school students must not be discriminated against, say MPs in Oxbridge
He added: 'I would like to remind Professor Toope that secondary school pupils come from a very wide income range and simply equate secondary schools with independent schools, where the vast majority of parents pay over £100,000 for…
When in Rome – Blackpool pupils indulge in Latin lessons
Latin hasn't been used as a living language since the fall of the Roman Empire, but its words and influence can still be heard everywhere, from science and medicine to court law and even Harry Potter spells. .Now children at Unity Academy…
Lifting the ban on high schools could help improve education
Removing the ban on new high schools would end the “geographical sweep” of education quality, a Conservative Red Wall MP has argued.Jonathan Gullis, a former teacher, has launched a campaign to remove the ban so that poorer areas…
Lifting ban on new high schools could help improve education in poorer areas, MP says
Lifting ban on new high schools could help improve education in poorer areas, MP saysFormer teacher Jonathan Gullis has launched a campaign to remove the grammar banAlmost half of UK high schools are in London and the South…
The Life and Death of the Spanish Language in the Philippines
I REMEMBER that a Latin American scholar—I don't know from which country—angrily stated at a university congress that because of the Spanish conquest, many indigenous…
Exclusive: Grammars in the selective school MAT offer
High schools are discussing forming Multi-Academy (MAT) trusts among themselves, fearing that having to join non-selective schools will force them to water down their admissions policies, Your can reveal.
The government said it wants…
Learn the grammars of molecules to build them in the laboratory
Researchers generate molecular structures using machine learning algorithms, trained on smaller datasets
Researchers generate molecular structures using machine learning algorithms, trained on smaller datasets
We believe that…
Bonnie Gordon maps image and word, stumbling through streams of consciousness
Fri 10 June - Sun 27 Nov All day
sand: a moment of time….This definition stands out from the swirling streams of words and definitions that surround a man who seems to be swinging an hourglass over his…
Raising a bilingual child in Japan | Way of life
You could say that my son is bilingual.Although he is only six weeks…
How Language Evolved: A New Idea Suggests It’s Just a Game
Our command of language presents many mysteries, including where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so easily. Now the…
The hijab has become a symbol of defiance
Socio-religious and gender identities, across religions and cultures, are seen on the surface of bodies through the visual markers of clothing, ornaments and marks on the skin. It is through these markers that a community realizes and…
Siyabangena22: The Unofficial Cape Town Art World Art Fair Afterparty Call and Response
When I saw the account @Siyabangena22 Floating on my Instagram feed, advertised as the unofficial Investec Cape Town Art Fair afterparty for 2022, I knew I had to be there. The same way you had to be there in 2008 when DJ Vetkuk vs Mahoota…
Lessons from the Sydney Festival boycott for grassroots activism
The recent success of the 2022 Sydney Festival boycott reveals not only the power of BDS, but also how solidarity and community building are still necessary for victory, writes Randa Abdel-Fattah. People hold banners and Palestinian flags…
Research questions focus “in depth” on grammar
New findings call into question whether "extensive" grammar instruction helps students' writing, researchers say.
Academics from UCL and the University of York say today's findings, on an approach to teaching grammar, match previous…
The Board of Directors grants tenure to 8 professors
Eight faculty members were named tenured by the Board of Trustees at its last meeting. Their promotions will be effective on July 1, 2022.
These professors include Claire Grace, associate professor of art history; Han Li, associate…
The Best Grammar Schools in the UK to Get a Place at Oxford or Cambridge University
High school places are in high demand, with parents willing to travel across the country to give their child a chance to take the Eleven Plus entrance exam. As private tuition rises beyond the means of many middle-class parents, families…
Fragrances: lives of colorful chameleons | Opinion
by Emilio DeGrazia I agree to call this piece on my face "nose". "Proboscis" makes it sound longer and is…
Footballer Troy Deeney calls for more diversity in the English schools curriculum
Birmingham City footballer and father-of-four Troy Deeney has called on schools across England to increase their teaching of black, Asian and minority ethnic experiences.In an open letter to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, Mr Deeney…
The Guardian’s view on selective sixths: elitism for teenagers | Editorial
A contradiction is at the heart of the British education system, and more particularly of the English system. This has been the case since most secondary schools in England moved from a selective to a comprehensive system in the 1960s.…
Aberdeen Grammar’s relegation from Premiership confirmed with Hawick defeat
Rugby: Aberdeen Grammar's relegation from Premiership confirmed with Hawick defeat
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This Jamaican-native, former British Black Panther, pioneered teaching black history in classrooms
In the 1970s, Beverly Bryan joined Britain's Black Panthers in solidarity with her friend who was the victim of a police assault. Since then, she has used her training to intentionally spread black stories, black culture, and black…
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The Best Grammar Schools in the UK to Get a Place in Oxbridge
High school places are in high demand, with parents willing to travel across the country to give their child a chance to take the Eleven Plus entrance exam.
As private tuition rises beyond the means of many middle-class parents, families…
How this pioneering Jamaican teacher and former British Black Panther changed the world
Beverley Bryan had loved reading since childhood. It was by reading books by authors such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright that she learned more about race, especially what it meant to be black and to be a…
Scottish Play’s past cinematic iterations haunt Coen’s ‘Macbeth’
At 66, Denzel Washington as a veteran star, is perfectly suited to the role of wearing the highlight of Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' - now streaming on Apple TV+ - alongside his co-star, and equally veteran ,…
Aberdeen Grammar Premiership trip to Hawick postponed
Aberdeen Grammar Premiership trip to Hawick postponed
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The best high schools in the UK to get a place in Oxbridge
Places in high school are in high demand, with parents willing to travel across the country to give their child a chance to take the Eleven Plus entrance exam.
As private tuition fees are beyond the means of many middle-class parents,…
More than 11 Covid-proof tests next year, grammars recommended
High schools have been told they may need to make changes to 11+ exams and up next year "in light of the fact that most children have been out of school for a significant period in 2020 and at the beginning of 2021…
Sex, Night – The Brooklyn Rail
Los Pirañas, El Shirota and Mujeres Podridas are three daring groups that make music that evolves the Spanish language into "a luminous heat that could burn, smell or even vaporize," as Octavio Paz noted of…
Revealed: How high schools are growing – taking students who fail 11-plus | Grammar schools
IIt's a glorious late autumn day at Herne Bay High School in Kent, and boys and girls in red tops are playing sports on neat artificial pitches, but headmaster Jon Boyes is staring into the distance, pointing to a land on the other side of…
Gleanings of winter etymology | OUPblog
When this blog came out in March 2006, the idea was that I would be inundated with letters, comments and questions that I would answer once a month. The flood did not materialize; yet a net has never dried up. In recent weeks,…
SUSIE DENT dares to say when it comes to words we don’t have to follow the letter of the law
English punctuation goes for the dog. Or maybe I mean he's already gone to the dogs â. . .Forgive my apostrophes. Readers who care about these things will know that I must say punctuation goes to dogs. Four letters…
COLUMN: AREAS OF TRANSLATION – Journal
What is Urdu for "fiddle dee dee", or English for "Sarra rara rara"? Are these words really English or Urdu?
Obviously, translation is not substitution; practical experience tells us that even if there was a…
Arnheim from DeepMind, produce images with grammatical brushstrokes
Have you heard of Rudolf Arnheim? Good! Rudolf was born in Germany in 1904 and was an art and film theorist. In 1968 he was invited to join Harvard University as a professor of art psychology. His works, such as "Art…
Paranoia and pluralism in the language
Paranoia and pluralism in the language…
Book Review: “The Notes” by Ludwig Hohl – “Everything that ever was created…
By Alexandra Sattler
Ludwig Hohl belongs to the line of lucidly controversial thinkers like Karl Kraus, Pascal and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.…
School prohibits teachers from using ‘good’ and ‘bad’ to describe behavior
A school reportedly forbade the use of "good" and "bad" to describe the behavior of its students. Dr Julian Murphy of Loughborough Amherst School, an independent school for pupils aged 4 to 18, told the I the movement aimed to "remove…
Dr Pinderjeet Gill talks about language as a form of connection
Pinderjeet Gill, professor of Asian languages ââand culture and winner of this year's Golden Apple Award, delivered her âDiversity Makes Us Strongerâ speech…
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Courses numbered from 000 to 099 are classified as refresher courses (unless it is a laboratory section which corresponds to a lecture course 100 to 599). Courses numbered 100 to 299 are designated as…
KSL celebrates 25th anniversary with speakers and events – The Observer
Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, during which a variety of events have been and will be held. All events are free and open to students and faculty of Case Western Reserve University, as well as the…
56 NI high schools register for the single transfer test
The majority of high schools in Northern Ireland have agreed to do a single post-primary transfer test from 2023.…
Practice of English by English applications
Sound like a native speaker and speak without an accent in just 3 weeks! 40 grammar topics, 2,000 most common words covering travel, work, and play, and a fun story with over 100 bite-sized episodes, all in one app. Learn new words,…
Hanging on to God and grammar
Through Carl R. Trueman, Voice contributor | Tuesday, September 28, 2021In the past, progressive politicians described those they despised as clinging to "God and Arms." I suspect we are not far from a time when they will insult those…
Make credit scoring results transparent without compromising security
The most common scoring problem these days is that not everyone can quickly interpret the results produced by the model. A complex algorithm examines dozens of dynamic factors, and hardly anyone can immediately see and understand what…
Academic selection: “The plan for a new transfer test cannot be an overhaul of the archaic…
The high schools were told that any plans to hold a one-time transfer test "can't just be a throwback to the old 11-plus."Two unofficial testing systems have been run by two private companies since the abolition of the state over 11 exam…
MIT presents a new approach for sequence-to-sequence learning with latent neural grammars
Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) modeling with neural networks has become the de facto standard for sequence prediction tasks such as those found in language modeling and machine translation. The basic idea is to use an encoder to…
Permanence of historical American propaganda
A few days ago, a Filipino cultural foundation that I really respect took to their Twitter account to post one of the photos from their very valuable collection. The photo showed a…
Computer models shed new light on the evolution of prehistoric languages - sciencedaily
A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages ââspoken before the written period, using computer modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year old Proto-Indo-European…
Hannah Reid of London Grammar held the crowd in the palm of her hand
You wouldn't think of the London Grammar as an obvious headliner at a festival. The electronic trio, whose third album Californian Soil climbed straight to the top of the UK charts when it was released in April this year, are known for…
The 8 best English grammar apps to improve your language skills
Search for English grammar checker apps and you'll find over a dozen of them. It just seems like an easier solution than learning the basics of grammar. But this is where the illusion…
On “Taming the Tongue” by Bryan A. Garner
WITH GRAMMAR APPROACHING the status of anachronism, Bryan A. Garner's Taming the language is not a screed for the return of grammar, but rather a cheerful review of 100 items from Garner's personal collection of nearly 2,000 grammars…
The most confusing grammar rules in English
12 / 20Nicole Fornabaio / rd.comAbbreviations with seemingly random lettersThe English language is full of abbreviations that just don't make sense. Why does the abbreviation for "number" have an "O", for example? And where did the…
Release of the book ‘Ltvian Grammar’ in English / Article
The University of Latvia (LU) recently published a monograph on Latvian grammar in English - "Latvian Grammar", written by linguists Andra KalnaÄa and Ilze…
Nunthorpe Grammar’s centenary reunion continues – a year late!
It might be a little late, thanks to Covid, but a long-planned centenary reunion for staff and students at Nunthorpe Grammar School is expected to take place later this month.
A dinner was held at Merchant…
THE CAXTON CICERO – Marcus Tullius CICERO (106-43 BC)
THE CAXTON CICERO - Marcus Tullius CICERO (106-43 BC)By senectute, in English: Of old age. Translated by Stephen Scrope (c.1399-1472) and edited by William Worcester (1415-1482). - By amicitia, in English: friendship. Translated by John…
Tracing the history of India through the changing landscape of languages
Extract of Wanderers, kings, merchants: the history of India through its languages, released by Penguin Viking in April 2021.
Everywhere we turn for answers on the non-Sanskrit characteristics of Indo-Aryan languages, we find ourselves in…
Testing more than 11 tests to the test of Covid 2022, high schools said | Your
High schools have been told they may need to make changes to 11+ exams and up next year "in light of the fact that most children have been out of school for a significant period in 2020 and at the beginning of 2021 â.…
Inflation of A and GCSE levels is “inevitable in the English system” | Exams
School leaders and education experts have warned that the GCSE and A-level results this summer will see grade inflation levels similar to last year despite onerous measures imposed on teachers to try to make the system…
Curious Kids: How are languages formed?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. Have a question you would like an expert to answer? Send it to…
Multilingual people have an advantage over those who speak only two languages fluently –…
Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, which makes it easier to acquire new languages ââafter mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly Herculean…
11 common grammar mistakes that make you cringe and make you seem less intelligent
No matter what type of work you do, good grammar is relevant to all organizations and can make a big difference in your career path.As Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, an online repair manual company, wrote in a Harvard Business Review article,…
Google Translate: How does the multilingual interpreter really work? | The independent
Google Translate has become the go-to Internet resource for short and fast translations from foreign languages.The service was first launched in April 2006, against early competition from Babel Fish. It now has more than 500 million users…
Readers’ response: How were the little words in English created? | Life and style
How were the little words - such as I, you, an, and - created?Felicity Miles, St AlbansPost new questions below or send them to [email protected] respondIn the same way that big words were created. Only faster. dylan37What you…
The most Dorky, wordy Valentine’s Day gift you can give
First of all, you need to know who Bryan Garner is. He is arguably the largest living lexicographer of the English language in the world. I'm not sure the âprobablyâ hedge is needed. Most people who…
Parents, Don’t Worry If Your Child Knows More About Grammar | Debra myhill
ohAn unintended consequence of school closures and distance learning has been the emphasis on teaching grammar. While supporting their children in home learning, many parents faced their own lack of knowledge of the basics. What exactly…
How the Infiltration of French Words Changed English
Through John McWhorter, Ph.D., Colombia University
From 1066 AD, the French-speakers occupied England. It was the Normans in particular and the dialect they spoke was a different dialect from French. The Normans were, in fact, also…
The evolution of creole languages may depend on how people started using them
AUSTIN, Texas — Creole languages don't retain all the grammatical features of their original languages, as some have claimed, nor are creoles the simplest grammars in the world, according to a new analysis Posted in Nature…
The way we speak unites and divides us
In her first book How You Say It, UChicago psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler explores how we interpret language to divide the world into social groups.
In a new book, Professor Katherine D. Kinzler argues that the way you speak reflects…
Covid-19 is about to expose the myth behind high school selection | Fiona Millar
Jummer holidays are approaching and no one knows what the new school year has in store for us. While normalcy no longer exists, one thing seems certain: at a time when one in two children in the country have had no tests or exams, the…
Can mobile apps really help you learn another language?
Language learning after home language in early childhood is often referred to as second language learning (despite the fact that people may actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…
Why emojis and #hashtags should be part of language learning
Learning a language after the mother tongue in infancy is often referred to as learning a second language (despite the fact that people can actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…
The English History of African American English
Shana Poplack, Emeritus University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, University of Ottawa/L'Université d'Ottawa
African-American vernacular English is an…
“It’s Not Like That Now” – The English Story of African American English
After students at a California high school were recently asked to 'translate' Black English sentences into Standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: 'The last thing they need - our children - is to be forced…
Who do they think they are?
gRAMMAR HAS seldom produced so much public acrimony as in the worldwide battle over pronouns. In a 2015 skirmish, the University of Tennessee offered guidance on referencing non-binary students on its website, only for the political…