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12 Stunning Works of Art to See in Oxford
As a revered seat of learning, it’s no surprise that Oxford is home to some incredible works of art. The city has a number of well-stocked art galleries, not least the Ashmolean Museum, which boasts a priceless collection of paintings and other artworks from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe to the Far East. You don’t...
10 Weird and Wonderful Cases Every Law Student Should Know About
One of the most enjoyable things about studying Law is the sheer strangeness of some of the cases you’ll encounter. You might think that cases involving nuisance would just be neighbours with their music turned up too loud, or contract law would just be about businesspeople trying to get one over on each other in...
4 Ways the Internet Has Changed the English Language
Go back ten years and you would have found endless hand-wringing articles about how our use of the internet, MSN messenger and texting was ruining everyone’s vocabulary and we would soon be able to speak in nothing but grunts and emojis. While these dire predictions had some, slim basis in fact (you’ve probably heard someone...
7 Things You Don't Realise Are Affecting Your Studies
Humans can be more easily influenced than we realise. You already know that the way you study affects what you learn; for instance, you might have discovered for yourself that covering your notes with highlighter pen is much less effective for retaining information than having someone quiz you on it. You might even have noticed...
7 Things You Can Do If You Picked the Wrong Degree
It’s the situation everyone dreads. It’s a few weeks into your degree. You’ve bought your textbooks, got to know your lecturers and made a few friends on your course. Maybe you’ve even written your first essay or two. And it slowly begins to dawn on you that you have made the wrong decision. Perhaps you’ve...
15 Great English Words You Probably Won’t Have Learned
About the Author Stephanie Allen read Classics and English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and is currently researching a PhD in Early Modern Academic Drama at the University of Fribourg. I recently had the misfortune of babysitting for some French children whose capacity for wickedness and violence I would not have thought possible from a...
10 Ways to Tell If Oxbridge Is the Right Destination For You
Are you thinking about applying to Oxford or Cambridge when you submit your UCAS form this year? If so, it’s advisable to think carefully before taking the plunge. Not everyone properly stops to consider whether or not Oxford or Cambridge will be right for them; some get caught up in the hype, wanting to go...
Are you thinking of studying Law?
With one lawyer per 400 people, the UK is in the top ten countries in the world by percentage of lawyers, and the popularity of law as a degree remains high. Though it seems a strongly vocational degree, it is in fact the case that law graduates can go into a wide variety of possible...
Are you thinking of studying Languages?
It’s hard to say whether it’s an excellent or terrible time to be studying modern foreign languages at university at the moment. On the one hand, with dwindling student numbers, university language departments are facing significant budget cuts and some are closing down entirely. On the other hand, this means that the scarcity of graduates...