For example, the New College of the Humanities will offer a liberal arts education of the kind which will be familiar to American readers and is so lacking in Europe, where most generally students must pick a topic of study (often vocational) upon their leaving the secondary school system.
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The venture which benefits from Yale's pedigree and complete funding from the Singapore government will create Singapore's first liberal-arts college, testing whether American-style liberal-arts education can take root in parts of Asia where critics complain about limitations on free expression.
This may provide some comfort to parents who have recently sent in deposits and are worrying about the futility of a liberal arts education versus more practical degrees in engineering, computer science or say, nursing.
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Instruction would be for courses in the College of Business, Education, Health Professions, Liberal Arts or Sciences.
In some ways The Grateful Graduates Index is a vindication of the old fashioned idea of getting a good liberal arts education.
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Do we want people returning who have learned only to hone the tricks of the trade, or do we want people coming back to our neighborhoods who have had a chance to learn the kind of analytical skills and be exposed to the ethical values that a liberal arts education is able to impart?
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In consequence a kind of undermining of the collegial quality and the cross-disciplinary quality and the liberal arts project in public higher education.
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To that end, Gillen established the Institute of Humanistic Studies for Executives, a 10-month immersion program that amounted to a complete liberal arts education.
In an ideal Republic, every American would get a broad-based, four-year, liberal arts education rooted in great books shared inquiry, as offered at schools like my graduate alma mater of St.
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