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Opinion: Exam results: how mindfulness can help you make better life choices

16 Aug 2016

Julieta Galante (Department of Psychiatry) discusses how self-observation can help you choose a career path.

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Childrens talk, English & Latin : divided into several clauses

Opinion: ‘Difficult’ Latin risks remaining a qualification for elite pupils

02 Nov 2015

Francesca Middleton (Faculty of Classics) discusses the reform of GCSEs and Latin's reputation as an academically demanding subject.

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Croquet Players by Winslow Homer, 1865

Playing croquet with the examiner: “he was much like other people”

26 Sep 2013

Exams are part of our personal stories. The history of exams too is surprisingly human. A seminar on 1 October is a chance for the public to dip into...

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