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    Online conducting course: ConductIT

    You can to some extent but to practice it you need live musicians. Conducting was one of undergraduate majors and it helped I was conductor of a...
    Post by: Stewart81, Dec 20, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ASIC Accreditation

    Though in the UK you can't use university as a name with ASIC approval, that needs either a Royal Charter (very rare these days) or an Act of...
    Post by: Stewart81, May 17, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ASIC Accreditation

    It reminds me of Red Dwarf where Rimmer, a low level technician with ambition but no ability puts BSc and SSc after his name to signify bronze and...
    Post by: Stewart81, May 15, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ASIC Accreditation

    If you go through their own materials (and I did as part of my job) it is very clear they accredit you as meeting the business requirements that...
    Post by: Stewart81, May 15, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ASIC Accreditation

    ASIC is not an a creditor of degrees or universities. They are primarily concerned with demonstrating a school is able to meet the requirements...
    Post by: Stewart81, May 15, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Job opportunity (urgent)

    Steve was the first person to welcome me on here and while I did bump into his highly caustic wit I took it in the very dry, sarcastic manner I...
    Post by: Stewart81, Apr 25, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Charisma University now has .edu

    ASIC is most certainly not accreditation in the UK more it simply recognises an institution as passing various requirements to for UK student...
    Post by: Stewart81, Apr 20, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    University of London International Programmes

    The Open University (my MA is from there) and I really didn't agree with each other. I had two personal tutors, one great and the other... less...
    Post by: Stewart81, Apr 13, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    OpenLearn

    This had been around for a fair few years now. When I was doing my MA there it was quite surprising how much of the material was still in use on...
    Post by: Stewart81, Apr 8, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Rioja Wine Academy

    My favourite wine, that I can afford anyway. Though too much and the studying may well take a hit....
    Post by: Stewart81, Feb 15, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Research-Only Doctorate in Theology by Distance

    A colleague of mine, Dr. Michael Walsh received his first doctorate from Greenwich. He also holds a DMus from elsewhere. He was quite fulsome in...
    Post by: Stewart81, Jan 18, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    European Universities Initiative

    Very mixed feelings on this. As a Brit with work connections in European education this would be something I would jump at but Brexit, as Johann...
    Post by: Stewart81, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    UK Validation

    This is a form of UK agreement that while still in existence has become moribund generally in new agreements. Here a validated award is one...
    Post by: Stewart81, Dec 2, 2019 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ABC awards/Ofqual?

    There is actually a very big move to reduce the influence of OfQual, with Oxford and Cambridge part of it. The majority of UK Universities take...
    Post by: Stewart81, Dec 2, 2019 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    ABC awards/Ofqual?

    We don't have community college here as such, we have Further Education ones and any award offered by these is usually OfQual regulated as the...
    Post by: Stewart81, Dec 2, 2019 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions