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Engineering Diplomas get boost

November 20th, 2008 No Comments

Jamie Tuplin, Stan Owers, Mick Waters and Pete Williamson - presenters at the Owers Lecture 2008
The Guardian reports “Oxbridge to accept engineering diploma” - welcome news to learners and their teachers pioneering the Engineering Diploma in Barking & Dagenham schools. This timely announcement comes a week after another stimulating and informative Owers Lecture presented by […]

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Surprise, surprise

May 25th, 2008 2 Comments

Tara Brabazon in the Times Higher Education Supplement when discussing coursework masters degree courses:
“They are squeezed between the crowd control of undergraduate education and the over-bureaucratised doctoral programmes that dislodge the historically functional relationship between a PhD candidate and supervisor.”
She draws attention to the remarkable creativity of her students, when unleashed with a little […]

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