el que necessita la sanitat catalana és més pressupost. Quan ningú hagi d'esperar mesos per a una cirurgia, podem començar a pensar en classes d'idiomes.

A friend of mine recently started a new job. On Day 1 she was told that Catalan was the only language permitted during working hours. Linguistic supremacism comes in many forms.

colour me schocked

A day doesn't go by without receiving a translator's CV, often with a postgrad degree and loads of experience. We don't have enough work for ourselves. Bad times for freelance #translation.

erm.... *cough* there's no future tense in English, there are a number of ways to talk about the future

on my list.

the work of the artist is to produce art; art is intrinsically problematic for some groups and people. that's not the artist's problem.

I wish I could go to this

Just watched episode one of the Netflix documentary on Beckham, excellent. Hard recommend. But the translation of Simeone's comments is shite. Done with AI????

macdonnchada.substack.com/p/pedro-sanche…

still doing pretty great by comparison with Podemos: down to five deputies, complaining of persecution by the socialists and communists and any minute now about to leave the government coalition. Before the end of this parliament I see them voting with the PP and Vox

I have received the task that I'm supposed to do before an interview for a pre-sessional gig. To do it to a good standard wd require a day's work. This is an abuse. An outline lesson plan to serve as a basis for discussion shd be sufficient

Just did an interview for another institution, took me an hour at most to do the pre-interview task. This is the way. #EAP #presessional

the sector is not in good shape, to put it mildly. the Lab govt is going to have to act fast to save larges swathes of UK higher ed #tlea

A lot of EAP job ads for online pre-sessionals and other online teaching specify that candidates must be resident in the UK. This may be to simply tax/payment bureaucracy for employers but it reduces the candidate pool a lot

The Financial Times coverage of Spain continues to be a disgrace. Thread here if you are also at the blue place bsky.app/profile/almagr…

Good summary of the desperate state of UK higher ed. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

Candidates for EAP pre-sessional teaching gigs shd not be obliged to write whole lesson plans to accompany the interview. It's an abuse to expect them to donate a few hrs work for free. BALEAP shd prohibit it #tleap

We use Teams, Google products, and all the rest because we have them not because they serve any useful purpose. An exaggeration, I know but not completely untrue

Thousands of Asian and Gulf states students in the UK at the moment doing English for Academic Purposes courses. I wonder* how they are feeling a) about their safety and b) whether they'd recommend friends/ relatives to study/work here *Not really #TEAP