Category: Education
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By HILARY GAVIN IF THERE is one scene that sums up the central message of the 1980s’ movie Educating Rita, it is – for me – when the titular character Rita, a working-class Open University student, can’t open the door to her university tutor’s study. It’s been many years since I last watched the film…
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Thames TV YouTube clip from July 1983 By HILARY GAVIN THERE’S no denying that I felt quite superior donning a scientist’s white coat for my holiday job at the EEC Food Intervention Board’s grain mountain in Tangmere, West Sussex, in the summer of 1984. Of course, I would have appeared even more imposing to strangers…
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By HILARY GAVIN CHARITY, they say, begins at home and it’s a proverb that I have, on the whole, equated with selfishness in my life. Saying that, I’ve begun to view this short truism in a different light over the past two years as our modern-day individualistic society continues to eschew the extended family in…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’D forgotten how gripping old movies and telly shows can be until I re-played the first series and beginning of the second series of Shetland on BBC iPlayer over the weekend. Now, I’m not sure why the BBC decided to feature crime writer Ann Cleeves’s third novel Red Bones in Series One…