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Liberal Arts in the Media

Roy Peachey: ‘Forget Single Honours, Forget Joint Honours, the Liberal Arts are Back’

Rebecca Attwood: ‘It’s the Breadth that Matters’

Rebecca Attwood: ‘Winchester restates First Principles’

Laurie Taylor: ‘Don’t Ask Silly Questions’

Tariq Tahir: ‘Liberal Arts offer something completely different’ 

Auriol Stevens: ‘Should we think about creating a new university in Winchester?’

Nigel Tubbs: ‘The importance of being useless’

Laurie Taylor: ‘Crying Woolf’

Frank Furedi: Liberal Education: preparing students for life’s journey

Mathew Reisz: Liberal Arts Builds Momentum in the UK

The Future of Liberal Arts, Kings College, London, 14th October, 2014 (for MLA see Panel Discussion on ‘The Liberal Arts and Universities’ – 5th video, beginning at 16.43).

Helen Lock: Could Liberal Arts Colleges become America’s finest export?

Ian Bostridge: In Search of a Truly Liberal Education

Natasha Turner:Liberal Arts in the UK: how students are finding the model

Does Liberal Education Need Saving? Conference at University of Chicago May 2016 

 
Mike Ratcliffe: Specialisation: Switching, Selection, and Sorting

 

 

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