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OCA Fine Art- Spring assessment happiness!

Leaving a unit or stage and moving onto the next is not breaking up with it but maturing and moving on with it. The bonus is, you carry on with the wisdom you have learnt and the dos and don’ts.  Here are three students who have a working relationship  with their current practice .

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A fruitful feedback session

Some feedback can be seen as daunting, unpredictable, too long, too  dominating and a little bit too nice. But it is up to you how you want to direct it; you have ownership and drive it in a way which suits you. What do students  want from feedback sessions? Critique, direction, progress, ruthlessness,  compliments?  

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Conversations in an Unfamiliar Place.

So, when a dialogue is opened up, it is opened up not just for the minute that you start it, but for a sustainable period…

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BNC Review

Bloomberg New Contemporaries was an array of reactions and confusions but by all means a must see, especially to realise the wider issues that face us whether in the everyday, in our social doings, in topical debates or of ourselves as humans and as a population.

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