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Why does Oxford award fake MAs for cash?

April 26, 2017award cash MAs Oxford

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Why does Oxford award fake MAs for cash?

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From: Jonathan Jones Roughly speaking, the argument is as follows. The basic Oxford degree for which undergraduates study is the MA, and this has been true for centuries. In olden days this was a seven year course. These days most of the courses have been trimmed down a bit and now take three or four years. These are not BA courses, though, they are MA courses. Oxford retains the tradition that MAs take 7 years, and so you can’t get the MA until 7 years after matriculating. So they give you the BA as something to wave around until you get the real degree. And that’s all an Oxford BA is. A couple of hundred years ago other universities came along and started awarding degrees. For some crazy reason they decide to award BAs rather than MAs. In other words, they were the ones that broke standard practice. Sadly they are now so numerous that their rather strange decision has been normalised by sheer weight of numbers. That’s it really. The issue of paying for degre