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Can these colleges, accreditors breathe new life into a bachelor’s degree?

University Business

A three-year bachelor’s degree program may have never looked more plausible than in 2024. Several colleges are concluding their first official term this spring or launching this fall and many more are in the middle of small-cohort pilot programs. The catalyst?

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

HEPI

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’. The updated February 2024 QAA Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications stated that the Oxford and Cambridge M.A.

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