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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

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Like many neurodivergent academics, Tim works across an astonishing range of knowledges, including political science, fine art, public policy and pedagogy. by Kai Syng Tan A loveless storm and a love-filled symposium On 18 November I was ill. Universities, watch and learn. Yes it can be done.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. The medieval university degree can be conceived as modelled on the guild-style of training, where an apprentice would be trained up to a master level, before then taking on their own responsibility. [1] 2] The model began to decline for various reasons. degree, which the M.A.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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Narratives at SRHE 2023 – more than just mere rhetoric

SRHE

by Adam Matthews It’s January 2024 and I am sitting down to write up my reflections on the SRHE Conference 2023. The system was not fit for purpose and the reporting of accounting shortfalls have found to be incorrect. The Post Office scandal has captured the public imagination thanks to a dramatisation of the events on mainstream terrestrial TV.

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Academic life on the big screen

LSE Higher Education Blog

James Chapman Legally Blonde: Elle uses her specialist female knowledge to confound prejudiced students and professors by rising to the top of her class, ending up a role model appreciated for her sheer smartness and charm. Got a 10th choice?

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