Catherine your ignorance is outstanding. If you want to learn you do not even need a University!

Hence your argument of distance vs traditional learning is of zero importance, especially since courses are designed in a way to be identical.

Moreover your word contradicts some of the top accreditation bodies worldwide. I might also add that DL students might offer more to academia since usually they work while studying and practice what they preach, not blabber on for ever without having touched the professional world.

Prove me wrong please.

For clarity’s sake grade 8 is equivalent to an A level. Then you do a Recital, ATCL (if with Trinity) then LTCL…it’s equivalent to a BA.

Another Maltese trait in full display: refusing to listen to people who know something about an issue; insistence that the person who disagrees with you does so because they don’t know anything, despite evidence to the contrary.

Being in a research environment is good for intellectual development and engagement, John.

A PhD is research-based not necessarily so a doctorate. There is a difference between the two.

Leicester ranks high in the UK, yes, and my issue is not with this university. My issue is with their distance learning. The two things are not the same.

Cheap as in not as much work, not of the same value, as other PhDs. And with a 50,000 word thesis and tutorials all the way through, I can assure you the “doctorate” (NOT PhD, for a good reason) is “cheap” as its lack of comparable effort results in a less valuable achievement. Honestly, Jesus wept, you take things so literally it’s amazing. Go away now.

Oh for God’s sake, do get a life.

Any way the Master(s) wills it.

“If I see anymore of these cheap Leicester online style qualifications and that rubbish masters in creativity and innovation (bit of a tall order there) I will need a sick-bag. ”

You know well that in the UK, higher education is fee-paying…

Catherine, you are very right. People don’t realise that many universities in the UK are commercial crap (and it’s getting worse).

If you don’t go to a top uni, you’re wasting your time.

” a window to a reality that somehow the majority seems hell-bent to sweep under the carpet.”

Some of us left Malta decades ago for the same reason.