Wednesday 3 January 2018

HE explained: Acronyms

Higher Education abounds with Organisations, Institutions, Faculties, Programmes of Study and even courses that are known to their audience via an acronym.
PICTURE BY SMARNAD AT FREEDIGITALPHOTOS.NET
  • DfE - Department for Education
  • UCL - University College London
  • BBS - Birmingham Business School
  • AFM - Accounting and Financial Management
  • HRM - Human Resource Management

A good, memorable acronym, in any field of endeavour, needs to have the following qualities:

  1. Brevity
  2. At least ONE Vowel (some of the above do not qualify)
  3. Pronounceability as a word  (not simply saying the letters)
  4. Unable to shock your granny (Bradford University Maths Society was always a favourite)
Happily, my acronym for acronyms is BAPU.

Hang on....that's the acronym of the British Association of  Paediatric Urologists.

Or am I taking the Programme In Social Science?

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