We must consider the process of learning as an experience. Are we entering an era of the viva? A post-submission presentation? George George Bryant-Aird cites an example of "Vertically Integrated Project" (slide below). Do we create a rubric for use of AI? #QAAChatGPT QAA

2023 reading: bank holiday edition

live your life, get a little tattoo 🪻💐

the government: we need to support students! that's why we're getting tough on unis! and arts degrees! think of the students!!! also the government: remember that actually useful scholarship we said we might do for disadvantaged students? yeah well maybe another time lol

finished Penance by Eliza Clark (mostly offline) over the course of 48 hours. just can't stop thinking about it. reminded me of the ghost stories we used to tell about kids who died getting stuck on the rollercoaster at metroland (I mean this as the highest storytelling compliment)

“It’s a thing about being a man. To be so stingy, to deny even a sip of yourself. To deny and deny and deny until one day it all comes out as a violence, like water spewing forth from a hose.” Fiction by @jamelbrinkley: bostonreview.net/articles/barto…

I am just a man Sat in an empty cinema Drinking a can of gin and tonic (decanted into a tango ice blast cup) Waiting for Barbie

Here is an updated photo of what Gboyega Odubanjo was last seen wearing, missing since @ShambalaFest. Please share and if you have any relevant information contact Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23.

Gboyega Odubanjo: Poet missing after Shambala Festival, police say bbc.in/44qoUgs

NEW on Wonkhe: External examiners are still regarded as an essential component of higher education quality - so why don't we treat their student equivalents in the same way? George Bryant-Aird sets out what that would look like George Bryant-Aird wonkhe.com/blogs/student-…

In what has seemed almost forever, finally started submitting work again and The Lincoln Review were kind enough to publish. My short story, (Yeti), is now live in Issue 5, alongside a host of brilliant writers and artists

NEW on Wonkhe: George Bryant-Aird argues that knowledge of and confidence in contemporary political and social debates are crucial to the future of teachers and teaching George Bryant-Aird wonkhe.com/blogs/yes-teac…

NEW on Wonkhe: George Bryant-Aird argues that knowledge of and confidence in contemporary political and social debates are crucial to the future of teachers and teaching George Bryant-Aird wonkhe.com/blogs/yes-teac…

💔💔💔 genuinely gutted to hear this. One of few independent bookshops near us, always had a mint selection

huge thank you to The Lincoln Review for the Best of the Net Nomination! Very excited to be considered. Read the story here: lincolnreview.org/issue5

Stories:  Tara Van de Mark, ‘The Safety Plan’  George Aird, ‘(Yeti)’  Creative Nonfiction:  Ian Hill, ‘The Memory of Water’ (photo-essay)  Art:  Ashley Greaves, ‘Pyre’, ‘Journey’s End’, ‘I Wandered Lonely’ ✨

Callooh! Callay! It's new issue day here at The Interpreter's House. For your delectation and delight we present issue 82. Go on, sack off work for the morning and enjoy: theinterpretershouse.org/issue-82

Always nice to be featured in a beaut magazine, alongside some really talented writers. Thanks to theinterpretershouse for care and attention editing my story, and for putting together a lush new edition! theinterpretershouse.org/aird-82

again, huge thank you to The Lincoln Review, 1) for accepting the piece in the first place; 2) for choosing it as part of their Best of the Net nominations 🙌✨

Story-a-Day 19 'Strange to think there were people out there who rallied against this kind of phenomenological abstraction. Who, when the noise came, welcomed it. Opened their bodies as you would a guest to your home.' from 'Dawn Chorus' by George Bryant-Aird theinterpretershouse.org/aird-82