Type & Media is now an internationally accredited Masters program. For anyone that wasn't aware, the Dutch educational system was overhauled about 6 years ago and any applied/practical studies were taken out of universities and placed in what is called a Hoogeschool.
Since this changed the structure of the program it meant that schools had to re-accredit themselves. This is something that is based on the previous 5 years of output from the course and, given that this is now the 6th year of the Type & Media program, it was finally able to apply for accreditation.
It was a really big deal and a few famous people in the type and graphic design world were there; Erik Speikermann and Paul Barnes in particular. It took about 6 hours behind closed doors and many levels of questioning on behalf of a government committee, but the results were as mentioned above.
What impact this has on me is not entirely certain yet, and even though it has been agreed that it will be granted the status of a Masters program, the details will be worked out in a summary presented by the accreditation committee. This should take about six weeks and by January I should know exactly what I'll be graduating with.
Though, as Erik Speikermann put it, everyone thought of us as a full masters anyway.
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Hi Ross
I will keep my fingers crossed to make sure it gets to be official masters program. Soounds like Colin is going to be working in England according to Lorraine. I have not talked to your mom and dad yet about it Grace. Glad things are going good. take care from kathie and jake
yay
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