Oxbridge

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayer takes place in Oxford, England. One of the most significant place in this book is Shrewsbury College, an imaginative college set in University of Oxford. Therefore, Sayer constructs the story space within the Oxford community. Although the story has a lot of different setting in different places, we must aware of its representation or even symbolism in some significant places. Generally, the places in the story can be categorized as public and private space. This category

From the standpoint of the collegial culture perspective, the purpose of higher education is the “generation, interpretation, and dissemination of knowledge” (Schuh, Jones, Harper, &Associates, 2011, p.274). Some argue that there is nothing more important than high quality research, scholarship and teaching; however, with the health of theories and concepts that are currently practiced, student affairs professionals and academic leaders must rely on a range of approaches to achieve educational goals

according to the passage we know that, many issues about enrollment in Oxbridge and oxford university that emerged, this problem begins with the idea that someone elitist such as oxford would never be the place for someone like you. This idea is fed to students from public schools, and ultimately initiates the pros and cons. It causes students from private schools to feel that they are entitled to a place in the university. The lammy-highlighted issues can be traced to the education system and governmental

Nabeeha Hasan Sugar Land Texas, USA Personal Statement I want to participate in the Oxbridge Summer Seminar because it’s a new experience. I am a person that’s all about new experiences. From sampling squid-ink dyed paella in Madrid to trying my hand at falconry in the deserts of the UAE to riding elephants in the jungles of Chiang Mai, I am always ready for the unconventional. Being a regular traveler and having lived in countries on opposite sides of the globe, I not only have experiences in these

open imagination on where the events that had happened at “Oxbridge” could also take place. 2. The original occasion of a “ A Room Of One’s Own” was to describe “Women and what they are like; … women and the fiction that they write; or women and the fiction that is written about them.(Woolf, 3). Woolf addresses women as her audience, and follows to a great extent the advices she intend them to follow. 3.Woolf characterize "Oxbridge" as a material place and in terms of its traditions and conventions

order to write fiction”. Characters such as Mary Beton, Mary Carmichael, and Mary Seton are used as imaginary narrators, whom of which are grappling the same topic as Woolf. The narrator uses Oxbridge and various libraries to reflect on different educational experiences available to men and women. At Oxbridge the narrator focuses on the material differences, while in a British library the narrator concentrates on the matter in which women are written about. The British library proves to show the topic

“Hector is the Hero of Act One and Irwin is the Villain” How far do you agree? In Allan Bennett’s, The History Boys, controversial teachers hector and Irwin are made out as one hero and the other a villain. The ability to be able to distinguish these complex characters as a hero, a person who is admired for their admirable nature; or a villain, who’s immoral and erroneous actions characterise them distinctly; is irrelevant as they both harbour characteristics seen as desirable and distasteful. Both

‘The History Boys’ written by Alan Bennett is a play that explores the theme of love between the characters. The action of the play takes place in all-boys grammar school in Sheffield, in the 1980’s where it focuses on a group of sixth intelligent boys with fighting for the chance to gain scholarships to go to either Oxford or Cambridge. Bennet gives an insight of what the education was like in the north of England in the 1980’s. During this time the play was originated under Thatcher’s conservative

The beautiful city of Cambridge has an enviable reputation as one of the world’s greatest universities as well as being an agreeable place to live and work. The inhabitants enjoy low unemployment, a cluster of good schools and plenty of green spacious parkland. The river Cam provides a focal point in the summer with its flotilla of punts gliding around gentle bends overhung with lush willows. It is a city of two vibrant communities, that despite a chequered past of friction and confrontation now

learning for the pleasure of education and with the hope that this education will allow her to enter a wider world. The History boys is a journey of a group of Northern working and middle class grammar school boys, who are aspiring to get into - Oxbridge on scholarships, with the aid of two contrasting teachers, one who believes that education is solely for the purpose of grades and another who teaches ‘gobbets of information’ for the purpose of personal gain. Educating Rita begins with the female