@rafaelmitchell.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Education, University of Bristol | Co-Director of CIRE | BAICE | Schooling in Africa, democratising knowledge in education
Tigray Calls on AU for Immediate Action to Avert War
The #Tigray interim administration, in a letter addressed to the AU, called for “immediate action to avoid an imminent war. The repercussions of a new conflict would be catastrophic and irreversible” and “plunge the region into a wider conflict.”
UPDATE: according to reports from Tigray regional state television, drone strikes targeted trucks in two north-east Tigray towns at 4AM local time. A driver was killed, another is injured.
These would be the first civilian casualties of drone strikes in Tigray, since the Tigray war ended in 2022.
BBC News - Ethiopian Airlines cancels flights to Tigray as fears mount of renewed conflict - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Published today! Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... pleasure working with great colleagues Leanne Cameron @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social Martin Preston @bristoluni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social #BAICE #SES
17.12.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.
13.12.2025 12:20 — 👍 75 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0UK citizen here. On the weekend I was denied an ESTA, I suspect because I've visited Somalia in recent years for work. I only needed ESTA for transit through USA. I guess the intention behind these changes is to deter visitors? Will probably achieve this.
11.12.2025 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The focus of this article is the partnership between Mekelle University researchers and the Tigray Region Education Bureau (TREB) around the introduction of an Accelerated Education Programme (AEP) across all schools in the region in 2023.
10.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Based on experiences following the 2020-2022 civil war, we consider the role of local researchers in supporting educational decision-making in line with democratic, human-rights based principles and international commitments.
10.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is an open access *preprint* by Mekelle University researchers, Nigusse Weldemariam Mulugeta Tsegai, Haftu Hindeya, Fesseha Abadi Weldemichael & me
The article draws on the experiences of university-based researchers involved in the post-war reconstruction of education in Tigray, Ethiopia.
**Post-war reconstruction of education in Tigray, Ethiopia**
What was the plan for re-opening schools in Tigray after the devastating 2020-2022 civil war? Who was involved in decision-making, and what evidence did they draw on? What were the results?
Today is UN's Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
Here's an incredibly powerful book containing life-history accounts of 20 everyday people #Mekelle #Tigray during the civil war & its aftermath (2020-2023)
- books.openedition.org/cfee/3812
“The #Tigray population have been through hell on earth. If people can name it, it’s a genocide at best…in a country where over a million lives are lost and a horrific number of gender violence and mutilated young people, people destroyed as families, infrastructure.”
— Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin
"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world"
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
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25.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
For anyone wondering what life was like in Mekelle during the civil war and its aftermath, this open access book contains the personal accounts of 20 civilians - everyday people, mostly from from the lower middle classes
books.openedition.org/cfee/3812
This is an opportunity for school leaders, teachers and teacher educators to contribute to our shared understanding of how the politics of race, ethnicity and nation play out in schools around the world.
25.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world"
Call for papers!
#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
It's an outstanding book, with beautiful, haunting illustrations - a work of humanity, published by an anonymous women's collective
22.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For anyone wondering what life was like in Mekelle during the civil war and its aftermath, this open access book contains the personal accounts of 20 civilians - everyday people, mostly from from the lower middle classes
books.openedition.org/cfee/3812
“Today, Tigray is broken. Its leaders are divided. Another war looms, one that could pit Tigrayans against each other. I fought once to defend my people; I will not fight again in a war that will destroy what remains. That is why I left.”
An incredibly sad account.
open.substack.com/pub/continen...
Weaponized Starvation: How Ethiopia Created Famine In Tigray
The famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of deliberate policies—a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid by #Ethiopia and its allies—designed to destroy civilian life.
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...
31.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 63 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 5
"One that ensured that they left a strong legacy, maybe in the form of an independent non-profit organisation... Instead, as a result of their decision, the countries in which they work will lose aid in the immediate term and possibly face years of uncertainty..."
www.devex.com/news/mott-ma...
"Even if they [Mott MacDonald] saw no future business prospects for themselves in international development, they could have honoured their history, their contribution to the field and their staff better by mapping a different exit..."
24.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Looks like @mottmacdonald.bsky.social is *closing* Cambridge Education with implications for education in Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan & West Africa
This a few months after MM reported record growth, with global revenue reaching £2.5bn for the first time
Famine in Tigray: Hunger and Humiliation worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...
11.10.2025 04:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New report on conditions in Tigray, Ethiopia
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
