I spent the day today working at home with my colleague Jez Collins and after a lot of planning, writing and brainstorming, we had a Skype meeting with Professor Tim Wall to talk about (among other things) the ongoing development of Masters programmes at Birmingham City University. I’m already the award leader on an MA [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: BCU, Internet, mamusicind, mamusicrad
For the past six weeks or so, I’ve been doing a course at the university: being trained in the fine art of Masters supervision. Along with a bunch of other staff members (several pictured above) from different faculties, I’ve spent my Wednesday afternoons analysing and reflecting on how we help our Masters students do independent [...]
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Tagged: BCU
We had a BCU School of Media “Away Day” today – though it was just a few blocks up the road in another university building called The Pavilions, at our sports ground. Food and coffee and an opportunity to do a bit of blue sky thinking with a bunch of colleagues you don’t always get [...]
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Nice promotional video featuring some of my colleagues and students at BCU. There’s a bit about some of the BA courses, and something about the MA courses too. My own MA course – the MA in Music Industries kicks off in September. There’s some information about that here, if you’re interested.
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Photo by Birmingham City University So, it’s official – we’re going to be launching our MA in Music Industries this year, and you can come and study on a post-graduate programme that I’m going to be teaching on, along with a bunch of very cool and interesting people. The course kicks off in September, but [...]
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Tagged: BCU, MA, Music Industries
45 year old Hereford man, Matt Grimes After work, a bunch of us slipped off to the pub for a pint to celebrate Matt’s 45th birthday. If it ends in a 0 or a 5, you have to have a drink. That’s the rules. Matt took over from me as Degree Leader in Music Industries [...]
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Tagged: BCU, Beer, Matt Grimes, Photo
