Posted by: Wayde Edwards on June 4, 2018
Playing croquet on the lawn of an 800 year old college before a concert in the chapel and settling down for a lovely black-tie dinner. That is perhaps the romantic notion we have of college life as a part-time students at the business school. The Oxford glamour without the massive under-graduate pressure. The reality is […]
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Posted by: Wayde Edwards on March 15, 2018
Major Programmes are large scale initiatives that have the potential to impact millions of people, can take a decade or more to complete and cost upwards of a £1bn. Kitchen poker takes a couple of days to organise, is done in an evening and has a budget that equates to roughly pizza and beer for […]
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Posted by: Wayde Edwards on November 30, 2017
It was the final pop-up message. I decided to read it although I already knew what it was going to say [to the tune of the 1996 smash hit, “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls] “Now… tell me if you’re sure, if you’re really really sure?”. It was now beyond doubt; my brain was totally frazzled. […]
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Posted by: Wayde Edwards on October 30, 2017
I looked around. There was nothing heavy within reaching distance. I decided to take the plunge. For probably the fifth time in as many days I asked my wife the most pressing question for the upcoming trip to Oxford, “So, you definitely think this grey suit is dark enough for Sub Fusc?”. The advanced risk […]
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Posted by: Wayde Edwards on October 6, 2017
I’m sitting at my laptop surrounded by a pile of papers… on my left, the first draft of my formative assignment. The equivalent to a pre-season friendly that will no doubt show us how much work we have to do to start producing outputs worthy of a Master of Science degree from the number one university in the world*. […]
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