Several times lately, I’ve been asked for help by students really struggling with the weaving section of Textiles 1. Apologies to those tutors and students who are weavers, but this is an area which causes a lot of headaches for many. I think in all fairness, some of this is probably down to preconceived...
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Last week's Wikipedia blackout and journalist Johann Hari's decision not to return to 'The Independent' put plagiarism in the news. But plagiarism, imitation, forgery, flattery, call it what you...
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The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years continues to show no signs of abating. Over the last few months several bodies of photographic work focusing...
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Looking up from the programme, a puzzled expression crossed the child’s face as he asked: ‘What’s a lieder recital?’ ‘A song recital’. ‘So what’s lieder?’ ‘German for songs’. ‘So...
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OCA student Lucie Bromfield recently completed a level 2 OCA painting course and submitted a suite of work that demonstrated such thoughtfulness and integrity that we just had to...
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This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson's learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly...
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It's not everyday that you ruin £260 worth of digital camera. But that's exactly what I did to my Nikon P7000 in a winter blizzard on Rhinog Fach, in...
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