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Early evening on Tuesday 5th January 1971, a young man who had just finished school in his home country, arrived at Heathrow Airport to prepare for university the following year. At school, he had studied English as a foreign language…
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Saturday night in a university students’ house anywhere in the world is likely to bring a random group of young people together for booze and debauchery mixed with loud music and junk food. My housemate and I had been to…
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First year at university, the curriculum required students to take an elective subject outside of the discipline we were studying. As my degree was in Aeronautical Engineering, I had a vast choice of subjects to elect from such as sociology, music,…
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I am indebted to Kirstin Duffield for triggering a chain of thoughts in my mind when she published a post called “Surprising Stats?” Over the years, there has been a gradual shift in young people’s choice of direction after school….
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Her: do you have room in your suitcase for a couple of small items? Me: How small? Her: oh you know, a couple of books and a few pieces of clothes Me: that’s already more than a “couple of items”…
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