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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) Totally OT - Climate Change
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:53:53 -0300
That would have been a BA in classics in 1974 ?

Isn't the Oxbridge MA is a paid-for named upgrade for the BA ? My 
brothers-in-law and father-in-law saw better use for the five guineas it 
would have cost them for an upgrade !

jh


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) Totally OT - Climate Change


> Piers wrote:
>
>> If you think that, Brian, then you should correct the scurrilous and
>> biased gossip, fill in the omissions and correct the inaccuracies, as 
>> they
>> were not obvious to this reader!
>>
>> Did he in fact _not_ gain a Classics degree from Cambridge and a diploma
>> in journalism from Cardiff?
>
> If ever I get his e-mail address I might suggest that he himself do the
> corrections.
>
> During his talk he mentioned gaining a qualification in Architecture, and 
> in
> the course of using it, he also used Calculus making the point that had he
> not done so, he could not have been sure that the buildings he designed
> stayed erect. I have yet to get to this part of his talk in my 
> transcriptions to
> be quite sure on this. ... but I think the term he used was Classical
> Architecture. I don't know what goes on in - went on - in Classics degrees 
> at
> Cambridge when he was there. It crosses my mind that perhaps he was
> required to design classical buildings in those studies.
>
> In any case I was upset by the lack of mention of his education in
> architecture. Perhaps he exaggerated, or at least didn't disclose the 
> context
> of his architectural education.
>
> I am in no position to confirm or deny what wikipedia says as far as they
> have, ie "Monckton was educated at Harrow School and Churchill College,
> Cambridge, where he received an MA in classics in 1974, and at University
> College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism studies.".
>
> Brian Swale.
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