{"id":18118,"date":"2017-03-09T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:43:17","slug":"get-ahead-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/2017\/03\/09\/get-ahead-university\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get ahead at university"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n This week\u2019s blog highlights Next Action Associate’s pro bono work in higher education and gives a few suggestions about how GTD might help if you\u2019re a student (or if you know someone who is).<\/em><\/p>\n Just around the corner from tonight\u2019s gathering of the University of London\u2019s brightest and best sits the 19th century social reformer, Jeremy Bentham. Quite literally. His mummified body has been sitting in a display case in the South Cloister of University College in Bloomsbury since 1850.<\/p>\n When he decided to have his body preserved for posterity he\u2019d have been alarmed to discover what fate had in store for his head. You see it was decided – after the mummification went awry – that his head would be replaced by a wax copy and the original kept in a separate box. Unfortunately, this invited numerous student pranks down the years. On one occasion the students of Kings College stole Jeremy\u2019s head and held it to ransom for \u00a3100. On another, it was kidnapped, spirited away to Scotland and eventually found in the left luggage of Aberdeen train station.<\/p>\n