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

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15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded. It noted the Provost (the head) of the college thought the ‘present mode of conferring the higher Degrees unseemly’. 35] The eventual QAA report in 2001 did state that the M.A. B.D., &c. It criticised the practice of Oxbridge M.A.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom.