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PODCAST: The Hidden History of HE

On the podcast in the first of two Christmassy “Hidden History” box sets Mike Ratcliffe looks back at attempts to ban Oxbridge MAs and the vision we used to have for student accommodation

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Podcasts|20/12/19
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The Wonkhe Show podcast is on its Christmas break, so as a special treat we’ve rolled up Season 2 of the Hidden History of HE into two special box sets.

Every week Nottingham Trent’s Academic Registrar Mike Ratcliffe delves deep into the sector’s past to find out how things were and how things came to be.

This week Mike looks back at attempts to ban the Oxbridge tradition of awarding MAs, the time when the Government closed HE colleges they'd just opened, the end of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, the battle build new universities (including the towns that lost), and the vision we used to have for student accommodation.

Look out for Part 2 next week.

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Tom · 3 Jan 2020

I may have just missed it, but the bit about Oxbridge MAs wasn’t actually included, was it?