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INSPIRING STUDENTS… TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX 1.It’s good to be confused! 2.The new 18+ landscape 3.Menus 4.You can’t all be doctors! 5.Kiera’s tickets to the future 6.Jack’s degree of many colours 7.Jessica: it’s the journey, isn’t it? 8.Nathan: young and foolish?
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INSPIRING STUDENTS… TO WRITE PERSONAL STATEMENTS TO DIE FOR! 1.It’s not The Apprentice 2.I was born to dance! 3.Model statements… 4.…we want to hear your voice 5.Raymond Blancs Brassiere 6.Muhammad Ali quotes 7.Polished but boring 8.So what? 9.Florence & Beatrix 10. Weird is not a selling point 11. Freud & the super-curricular 12. Physics at Bath 13. Synergy with the reference 14. Hitting people in Portsmouth
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