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Graduate blues: how to handle the move back home
The post-university slump is real, but there are ways you can pick yourself up when you’re missing your old life
Three years of study, plus a year as a sabbatical officer on the students’ union, and here I am. A part of me never considered that this moment would actually come: after four long years at university, I’m living back at home. Returning after such a long period of freedom can be daunting, so here’s how to ease the transition.
Set boundaries with your family. Coming back home, one thing I’ve been more than a little concerned about is the question of everyone’s expectations. The last time I lived in my house I was a teenager, getting told off for not making my bed and still texting my mum every hour to let her know where I was on nights out. Surely the goalposts have shifted? Consider having a sit-down chat with your family to work out what you should expect from each other – for example, how you’ll contribute financially, or what you’ll do to help around the house.
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What does a rock look like? Oxford reveals sample interview questions
Annual release of interview questions comes with suggested ways of answering them
How you listen to music, what a rock looks like, and what historians cannot know about the past are among this year’s list of sample interview questions published by Oxford University.
The annual release of interview questions and suggested ways of answering them are designed to prepare aspiring students for the ordeal of trying to get into one of the world’s most elite institutions.
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Let’s abolish school holidays. It’ll save you feeding the children
What is the least you can get away with giving your kids for lunch at half-term before it starts looking like neglect?
Before we get going let’s accept that we all love our kids and wish only the best for the little darlings. Agreed? Good. With that established, let’s move on. Isn’t having to find something, dammit, anything to feed them across school holidays of the sort that are just beginning a total and utter pain in the arse?
People who usually leave the house for work suddenly find themselves marooned at home, without adult company, standing in front of a fridge, the contents of which simply aren’t engineered for an extra daily meal. Those of us who always work from home have different issues. We usually pass lunch standing in front of the fridge, prodding leftovers to see whether they’ve developed a furry crust, eating salami straight from the packet and eyeing cautiously a half-eaten packet of cheese strings. As a result, we are justifiably baffled by how demanding our own children are. I give you breakfast. I sort dinner. And now you want more? Can’t you go out and get a job or chase a fox or something? So what if you’re only seven.
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We need to reach children before they decide university isn't for them | Christopher Birchall
To boost social mobility, universities need to start speaking to children from disadvantaged backgrounds at a younger age
Traditionally, universities looking to widen access have focused on secondary aged children preparing to take their next step in education. This is certainly an important moment in a young person’s life, but in many cases it may be too late to shape their decision-making. Universities are looking to solve problems which can become entrenched far earlier in a child’s education.
In 2016, a Ucas survey pointed out that children who know they want to enter higher education by age 10 or earlier are 2.6 times more likely to end up at a more competitive university than someone who decided in their late teens. This is why universities need to do more work in primary schools.
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Can the language of the Vikings fight off the invasion of English?
Icelandic has retained its literary vigour since the Sagas, but TV and tourism are a growing threat
“Coffee and kleina,” reads a large sign at a roadside coffee shop by one of the main roads in Reykjavik. Not so many years ago, such a billboard would simply have read: “Kaffi og kleina” – in the language of the Vikings, the official language of Iceland.
It is a privilege of the few to be able to read and write Icelandic, a language understood by only around 400,000 people worldwide. Icelandic, in which the historic Sagas were written in the 13th and 14th centuries, has changed so little since then on our small and isolated island, that we can still more or less read them as they were first written.
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Science Fair review – riveting lessons from the smartest kids in school
This sharp, refreshing documentary charts the fortunes of high-school students in the unashamed pursuit of excellence
This National Geographic documentary is a really watchable, enjoyable account of America’s annual International Science and Engineering Fair, a gigantic competition open to high-school science students from all over the globe. At the annual final in Los Angeles, 1,700 young people must present their projects in trade-fair-type booths and be prepared to answer questions from judges who tour around, taking notes. Translators are provided.
This film follows a handful of these competitors: outspoken, smart, idealistic, unburdened by false modesty, and with a sublime kind of innocence. It is refreshing to watch something unashamedly concerned with excellence and objectivity, a contest that cannot be won by the person who shouts loudest about it being rigged or culturally biased, and it is also refreshing to see that scientists are not being belittled as “nerds”, or encouraged to humblebrag themselves by using this term.
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