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Friday, September 10, 2010
Opinion Archive
What a nice bunch of fellows
10 Mar
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The fellows of the College have rejected plans to increase the power of the students’ vote in next year’s provostial election.
Too easy to blame "dumbing-down" for grade inflation
10 Mar
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The recent debate around grade inflation in the second and tertiary levels is a complex issue that can be all too easily blamed on the “dumbing-down” of curricula.
No country for old men
10 Mar
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Whether you call it networking, cronyism or simply the Old Boys’ Club – using contacts and connections to obtain an edge in the job market seems necessary in today’s competitive world.
What the Falk?
10 Mar
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After an extensive dispute over ownership of the Falkland Islands, between the United Kingdom and Argentina, a war broke out in 1982 the conflict lasted approximately 74 days and killed 649 Argentines and 255 Britons according to Sky news.
Smile politely, nod awkwardly: greeting people you barely know
10 Mar
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Everybody has one. You know who I’m talking about, those people you see day in, day out, who seem to have the same strange life-schedule as you. You don’t know them, but somehow you both always manage to be in the same place.
Iceland moves to the polls
10 Mar
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In 2007 Iceland was voted the best place in the world to live. Then the whole banking sector collapsed, bringing the country with it, seemingly overnight.
Television Debates – Scripted Democracy
10 Mar
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There are a number of problems with the proposed televised leadership debates. From the outset it appears to be a commendable idea. One can imagine a scenario where David Cameron is launching a passionate attack on Gordon Brown’s leadership.
There may be trouble ahead
10 Mar
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Another news cycle passes and further column inches are dedicated to events North of the border...
Charity begins at the margin
10 Mar
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A friend of mine is a prominent member of a philanthropic business. The idea behind the organisation is very simple...
Giving up rather than taking up
10 Mar
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On March 2nd of 2010 Jon Venables (27) was re-arrested for an unspecified breach of the terms of his parole...
The student-run bookshop
10 Mar
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Dear Sir, I am disappointed with the reply of Padraic Lamb on behalf of the Student Union Bookstore (“In defence of a student run [sic] bookshop”, February 10th)...
Top ten problems
10 Mar
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Dear Sir, I read recently what I can only describe as one of the best articles I have ever read...
Have you heard of the iPad?
10 Feb
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Believe it or not, but our favourite company named after our favourite fruit has launched its latest product the “iPad”...
How “Corporate Communism” is ruining the United States
10 Feb
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In the midst of the turmoil in the US in the past year or so over first the banking system and then the health care debate, a new and highly provocative theory has developed which questions the state of the US’s capitalist system and democratic politics...
In defence of a student run bookshop
10 Feb
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Jonathan Wyse cuts a familiar presence around College; his profile stalks these pages too, with his regular applications of stolid if steadfast neo-liberal fiscal ideology to a variety of issues...
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