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Celebrate with us 20 years of Interface Design at #Muthesius School of #FineArts and #Design in #kiel

Here's a short video about the #anniversary and the latest #exhibition 'we are gym' with Prof. Frank Jacob (voice in german):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCo7LooZJc

#gym #interface #art #schleswigholstein #masterofarts #interaction #industrialdesign

Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel // 20 Jahre Interface Design // "WE ARE GYM"

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In the Dark Jul 23, 2025

Masters from Cambridge

A few weeks ago, after I posted an item about it being 40 years since I graduated from the University of Cambridge, I was talking to some students. The main subject was that the primary route for becoming a research student is to do an undergraduate degree (Bachelors) followed by a taught postgraduate programme (Masters) before starting a PhD or equivalent. In the course of that discussion I mentioned that I skipped the middle step and went straight from my (three-year) BA at Cambridge to my DPhil at Sussex. Nevertheless, I have got a Masters degree: MA (Cantab), to be precise.

I had to explain that if you graduate from the University of Cambridge then all you have to do is wait a few years and then your B.A. automatically becomes an M.A. In my memory I received news of this just a year or two after graduation but this evening I found the correspondence and it was later than that:

By December 1988 I’d already finished my DPhil thesis, though I wasn’t formally awarded the degree until the following July. I didn’t turn up to the graduation ceremony, of course. I had done at least some work for my B.A. but did nothing at all for my M.A. except survive for three and a half years. Neverthless, I still have the stiff ticket (right) which I show here alongside my B.A. certificate (left) to show that it looks just like a proper degree certificate even though it is, frankly, a bit of a fraud.

I bet our MSc students currently hard at work on their dissertations wish that theirs were so easy!

#BachelorOfArts #Cambridge #MagdaleneCollege #MasterOfArts