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Fiduciary law and the case of Aparna and Beth

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Charlie Everitt for submission to the Peter Cane Prize for Legal Reasoning, organised by Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His work was highly commended by the judges. The task was based on fiduciary law and a hypothetical case involving Aparna and Beth, who are both avid Pokémon…

Subliminal Advertising: A Hidden Message

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Raul Murphy and was a joint winner of the RGS 2023/24 4000 Characters essay competition. In this competition, students had to submit an essay of no more than 4000 characters (including spaces!) inspired by the quote ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’. The phrase…

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Marcus Woodhouse and was a joint winner of the RGS 2023/24 4000 Characters essay competition. In this competition, students had to submit an essay of no more than 4000 characters (including spaces!) inspired by the quote ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’. Part I…

Unprecedented: An in depth look into attitudes to China across 2020 alongside an investigation into how respondents make decisions at surveys

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Joshua Inglesfield as an Independent Learning Assignment (ILA). It was shortlisted for the 2023 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short abstract of the full report: The Covid-19 Pandemic has been extensively shown to have contributed to declining attitudes to the PRC. Various organisations, including…

The Influence of Classics on White Supremacy

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Jasper Morris as an Independent Learning Assignment (ILA). It was the winning submission in the Arts/ Humanities category of the 2023 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full essay: The Classics, the study of Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations, have long…

Exploring Emergent Properties of Complex Systems using Machine Learning

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Finlay Sanders as an Original Research in Science (ORIS) project. It was shortlisted for the 2023 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full report: Many natural phenomena display properties or behaviours more than the mere aggregation of their parts. Humans, for…

Pain Processing in the Spinal Cord: Validating multi-electrode silicon probe placement in the rat spinal cord using fluorescence microscopy for analgesic drug development

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Shrey Bijlani as an Original Research in Science (ORIS) project. It was the winning submission in the STEM category of the 2023 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short abstract of the full report: The N13 potential is a response in the spinal cord in…

Smart Cities: The Future of Mankind?

This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Oliver Godkin as an Independent Learning Assignment (ILA). It was shortlisted for the 2023 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full essay: We’ve all heard the word smart added as a prefix to everything nowadays – smart speaker, smart businesses, smart…

A New Translation of John 1

This long-read article was written by Sixth Former Sam Cherry. It provides a new translation of the first chapter of the Gospel of John, from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes with a translator’s commentary.

Estimated read time: 8 minutes

Mathematics is a Useless Degree

This tongue-in-cheek piece was written by OG Michael Kielstra, a current Mathematics student at Harvard University.

Estimated read time: 4 minutes

Greece vs. Rome: A Civilisation Debate

This long-read article was written by OG Matthew Sargent, as a response to a debate between Mary Beard and Boris Johnson.

Estimated read time: 6 minutes

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