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A common problem for our Heads of Houses in Oxbridge is the little mistakes that unaccountably slip into their curriculum vitae or press releases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it happens, no-one really knows — simple clerical errors by their PAs, enthusiastic auto-correction by the computer, or maybe their cat trampled over the keyboard at a critical moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problems of Kerris Bowles-Ottery<\/a> have been generously overlooked by the Fellowship of St Judas College after his explanation that a vindictive ex-lover had doctored his cv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we hear of a spot of bother for Wendell Lacksworth, the Master of Slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendell Lacksworth graduated with a Class II degree from Oxford and then obtained a PhD from the University of London. Of course, there’s no shame in that. Degree class is in any case a mediocre predictor of attainment in academic research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the public announcement accompanying his elevation to Head of House reads “Professor Wendell Lacksworth, DPhil(Oxon) has been appointed to the Mastership of Slaughterhouse…<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small point, perhaps? Indicative of a lingering sense of injustice that all those years ago Wendell was denied a PhD place at Oxford because of a second-class degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More seriously, there is a connection between insecurity and poor behaviour, like bullying. This is well-established in both psychology and everyday observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often, academics act aggressively to hide or compensate for their own feelings of inadequacy. It’s a coping mechanism for low self-worth or unresolved emotional issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s why those little mistakes in curriculum vitae are actually well-worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 21 Group emphasises that this is a work of fiction. Any similarities to actual persons, whether living or dead, or actual events are purely coincidental<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A common problem for our Heads of Houses in Oxbridge is the little mistakes that unaccountably slip into their curriculum vitae or press releases. How it happens, no-one really knows — simple clerical errors by their PAs, enthusiastic auto-correction by the computer, or maybe their cat trampled over the keyboard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}