Newnham Classics goes to Paris

I think that my very first blog on this site wondered about how best to help students when they were coming up to final exams. They are already clever, they already know a load of stuff, and they are worried. Most "revision sessions" simply serve to bolster morale (OK folks -- morale boosting didn't work today; quite the reverse, sorry).

So I have started to plot 'away-days' for our finalists in the run-up to exams -- a day out to somewhere intellectually bristling, slightly exotic and...