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Aha, was it 'if destroyed' by any chance? That would be an odd coincidence. My boyfriend writes it. And yes, I giggled too when I read the story!

I don't know but I just got a crazy moment of deja vu - five seconds before seeing this thread I was on a totally unrelated website which said precisely the same thing ("Best BBC News Story Ever") about the same link. That was weird.

Oooh as a student of Human Resource Management I feel duty bound to reply on this thread :-) I do feel someone split by this debate, particularly when considering the massive implications that the incoming Work and Families Act may have in small businesses. However, I cannot condone asking a woman a...

Quoting flossy from 12:48, 28th Feb 2007 I was given an Oxford offer and thought that the interviews were fair BECAUSE they had chosen questions and essays outwith the A-level course to see if you had outside knowledge and initiative as well as the ability to regurgitate information. Ho hum. My sch...

Quoting blimey from 10:06, 28th Feb 2007 Quoting Okocim from 10:00, 28th Feb 2007 .... It wasn't my teacher's fault - he'd just never coached a candidate for oxbridge before. ... should coaching be necessary? Not wishing to point at you specifically, just asking a question? Good point. Coaching was...

Some schools (both state and private) have the advantage because they have more knowledge about the admissions system at Oxbridge and are therefore able to offer more coaching to their students about interviews. I don't wish to winge about my rejection from Oxford (I never got the grades in the end ...

Or if your ideas are that good - why not use them to criticise the secondary sources?

Yeah, Jan Pawka who runs APASS has some crazy ideas about organisation... I last went in summer 2003, but confess I only used APASS once in 2001 and after that relied on my own contacts to find placements (which meant no registration fee and no bloody Jan Pawka to deal with). I'd pass on the contact...

If you fancy something a bit different you could teach English in a summer camp in Poland. I went three times whilst at uni and loved it. The organisation which recruits people is called APASS. It doesn't have a website, but I presume it's still running. There is some good information (including con...

At the end of 2005 my tie-in period with 3 ended and I rang up to finish the contract. However, the guy on the phone was extremely reluctant to let me go and kept offering me deal after deal. I was getting quite fed up with this until I suddenly registered that the final deal he offered me was crazi...

Wow. I'd forgotten about that old piano. Loads of old memories are now flooding back from my time in Regs. (Including times in the library with you Kaybee!) It's nice to know that Christine and Anne are still there; kind of reassuring somehow.

I don't know anything about current degree requirements, but I can say that my modern history dissertation was the most interesting piece of work I completed during four years at St Andrews. It's all 'real' history where you get to hunt for stuff and put together your own ideas rather than simply an...

Wow they've tightened up on the guidelines on that dissertation. In my day (sits up, trying to look distinguished and wise as a graduate should) the wordlimit and amount of time spent with a supervisor was very loosely defined. My submission was around one thousand words over the limit yet my superv...

Quoting Marco Biagi from 11:16, 14th Dec 2006
This thread is like an alumni reunion.

Heehee hi Marco!

Yeah I saw the man with his head in a bucket too. He was ever so still! There was a sign next to him saying something vaguely along the lines of "I'm a homeless person, but I earn my living by standing with my head in a bucket. Please give generously."

The best attempt I've ever seen was when the cleaner at a supermarket I once worked at pointed out that part of the corrugated iron covering the building at the back had been cut away and that attempts had been made to remove the brickwork in an area directly behind a room where valuable stock and a...

I used to work as a manager in a Tesco store, well actually several Tesco stores, with rubbish security. To get it improved the store management must prove to head office that they DO have a problem with regular shoplifters. The more people who nick stuff from shops, the harder it is to keep prices ...

Whenever I've been assessed, direct quotes have always been included in word count. I wouldn't have a clue about quoting percentages but as a general rule, only quote an author directly if you couldn't say their argument better and more relevantly through paraphrasing. It can impact the readibility ...

I remember the bed stunt... though my memory is a little hazy. I think it was for a referendum as to whether the Association should encourage the university to adopt an ethical investment policy. The 'yes' campaign was co-ordinated by the One World society. There was a person in the bed completely c...

[s] Laura wrote on 02:58, 5th Mar 2004: Hope this helps! It does. Thanks. [hr] "You mentioned my name as if I should recognise it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Norwo...