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• I'm a mature student at Oxford – so why am I being heckled by teenagers? | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

  07-02-2024 12:00
  
  I’ve had a chance to see the elitist bowels of the institution and have also been reminded of one of the most annoying aspects of university lifeI didn’t ever picture myself as a mature student. In fact, my first piece of published journalism was for this website, writing about what it was like to attend university at 17. Yet, over the past few weeks, I’ve become akin to an undergrad at the University of Oxford, where I’m doing a six-month fellowship researching how journ
  
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• If it’s ‘catastrophic’ for a boys’ school to go coed, I fear for the future of gen Z | Elle Hunt

  07-02-2024 09:00
  
  You’d think admitting girls to one private school in Sydney had brought about the end of man – but it only shows the cycle of toxic masculinity turning againSome news from the antipodes: a private boys’ school in Sydney is planning to allow female pupils for the first time. Before you move on with your life, spare a thought for the parents protesting against the switch as though it heralds the end of man.Last week a news clip went viral, showing a small group objecting to the &
  
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