Father, husband, #WBA supporter. Making slow progress with an Ed D on the value of the Personal in Writing (I think) while working in Higher Education. Still believe in education as a force for good.
Mark Holloway
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
This is exactly why we need people like @jimdickinson.bsky.social talking about Higher Education.
Carole Cadwalladr
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Mark Holloway
THE NERVE
Oh, so it's okay to choose how you identify after all.
Reposting without comment…
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world.
Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off.
Who protects the people?
Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS
Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
#LoveLD Our co-edited book: Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education is out now - freely available from www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... - and dedicated to my wonderful partner Thomas Burns: "In loving memory of Tom Burns who teaches us to dance with hope and joyful practice even now."
Academic writing and procrastination revisited patthomson.net/2026/04/06/i...
Andy Churnwell
Mark Holloway
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educa...
Procrastination often gets a bad rap in academic writing advice circles. It’s generally seen as a problem to be managed, a symptom of anxiety or perfectionism. In other words, it’s a pr…
‘In the second half of the 20th century the role of university English seemed to consist in clarifying classic texts “to a generation who were compelled to study them but had difficulty in enjoying them”.’
Colin Kidd on a history of English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with the...
