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End of an Era(smus)

As mentioned in a recent post, I visited Bucharest a few months ago for what may be my final transnational meeting as part of an ERASMUS funded project, representing my school. I have also contributed to the final report for what is very likely to be my final ERASMUS project, and which is being signed off this week. ERASMUS was one of the (many, many) casualties of the catastrophic decision to leave the European Union.  ERASMUS has offered me the chance to travel and work with colleagues across Europe since 2010 when I first got involved, thanks to Karl Donert. I have worked on a number of projects over the years, on projects which received millions of pounds worth of funding. These have offered the chance for students at my school to visit other countries and connect with students in very different circumstances and work on collaborative projects over an extended period of time which have developed their own social and other skills. DigitalEarth - a major European network - worki...

Sad times...

 

Brexit and the full English

An article in the Independent on the likely impact of Brexit on the full English breakfast. One for our geography of food unit potentially...

Brexit Pop-up shop

Looks like we have reached another stage of the Brexit negotiations... This weekend, a spoof pop-up shop opened up to connect with the Black Friday sales, and Danielle Majid kindly allowed me to use some of the photos she took. I love the creativity of this sort of 'shop' (you may remember the shop full of knitted products I blogged probably a year or so ago...) Image credit: Danielle Majid