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What did you not learn at school today?

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

It’s hard for a student at university these days, with all the awful things they (that’s the authorised pronoun for he or she this week) has to put up with. Just look at these words. ‘One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.’ Have you ever read anything as shocking? Students and staff at Exeter University in England hadn’t, and went into meltdown when it appeared in an email sent out by their careers department.

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