The Freshly Stamped Tomorrow of Generation Z

I’ve done a little access and admissions work here in Oxford over the past month and when I say a little I mean I’ve done a couple of days and that’s been it; just so no one gets the wrong idea and thinks I’m trying to imply I’ve been slogging my guts out in order [...]

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Latin Literature at Pleb’s College (BA hons)

As the tenancy in Cowley winds itself up with astonishing and nigh on purgatorial slowness something really quite interesting has taken place at the end of Randolph Street. A group of people have taken over the disused fishing tackle factory and transformed it into a social centre/free university called ‘Pleb’s College’, which has all-in-all been [...]

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Diploma or A level?

The government is set to introduce the 14-19 Diploma this september and if all goes to plan it seems quite keen on having the qualification replace the traditional A level as soon as it gains ascendency. Dr Ken Boston, the head of the qualifications and curriculum authority announced that when A levels undergo their review [...]

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Class, my friend, is dead

I had my relatively laid back feelings toward class issues kicked back into touch again by the ongoing saga that is a fellow student in one of my lessons who was privileged enough to attend a private boarding school before somehow ending up in the same boat as the rest of us poor common people [...]

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I love age limits, except when it’s 14-18 night and I can’t get in

An interesting part of the Queen’s pre-speech speech(?) was a proposed bill to keep youngsters in education or training up until the age of 18 by making further education compulsory. It’s an interesting one in as much as College has become just about compulsory for anybody who does half well at their GCSE’s, the entry [...]

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Renationalisation and Elected Chiefs.

I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation. I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising [...]

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Structured thoughts, the generalisation of our condition, Knowledge in the context of not knowing.

It strikes me that one main problem I have in my thought process is that of generalisation, you see I won’t lie, or try and deny the fact that I really don’t like other people, and in most cases tend to look down on them in no small way. Such an outlook is in reality [...]

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