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

HEPI

In case you missed it, yesterday’s HEPI / UCAS webinar can be accessed here. 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’. When is a degree not a degree?

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