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Mon 5 Oct Tue 6 Oct Wed 7 Oct Thu 8 Oct Fri 9 Oct Sat 10 Oct Sun 11 Oct 08:00               09:00               10:00         10:15» Wendy Martin - Namibia and Botswana (ext event)     11:00               12:00               13:00               14:00               15:00               16:00               17:00               18:00       18:00» Adult Ed in the 1919 centenary and Pandemic times (Ext online event)     18:30» LSS: Sammy Wright - Good and Clever 19:00       19:30» Malcolm Bennett: Results of the 'Badgers Found Dead' survey (LRWT Online event)

Time:

18:00

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

Leicester Vaughan College presents

Adult Education in the 1919 Centenary and the Time of Pandemic

with John Holford (Peers Professor of Adult Ed, U of Nottingham)

Details, registration and email sign-up here: https://vaughan.coop/course/adult-education-in-the-1919-centenary-and-the-time-of-pandemic/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VaughanCoop

Time:

19:30

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
Local Volunteer Groups Online Talk -

"Badgers Found Dead Survey - the Results"

With Malcolm Bennett

Details and booking via https://www.lrwt.org.uk/online-talks

Live-streamed and available afterwards via LRWT YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lrwt56

All welcome, Free - donations welcome.


UPDATE:
Prof Bennett's talk focused on the distribution of signs of TB of various strains in badgers found dead in England and Wales, and also mentioned other carriers of the TB bacillus from voles to soil amoebae.
Iain McGill also gave a briefing on the insensitivity of Tuberculin testing which detects around 50% of cases free to be shipped around the country.
Neither speaker's research supported the ongoing badger cull.

Time:

10:15

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

Travel Talks Leicester.

Namibia and Botswana with Wendy Martin

Details via http://traveltalksleicester.co.uk/

Time:

18:30

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

ZOOM TALK - Sammy Wright

"Good and Clever"

Sammy Wright asks why we put such weight on exam results.

Sammy is a deputy headteacher of a large secondary school. He spends his days teaching students knowledge which will uplift and enrich them; he demands rigour and high standards, and he wants to help his students succeed in their exams. But why, he asks in this talk, do we elide success in exams with some moral quality? And why do we put such weight on exam results?

Sammy is a member of the Social Mobility Commission.

This talk was given on Radio 4 Fourthought earlier this year.

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