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GregP Mar 2017 9:48pm, 15 Mar 2017 91,022 posts	0 GregP Slmp
ChrisHB Mar 2017 10:01pm, 15 Mar 2017 14,628 posts	0 ChrisHB seamless message protocol?
GregP Mar 2017 6:53am, 16 Mar 2017 91,024 posts	0 GregP It's one of Juder's
GregP Mar 2017 8:59am, 16 Mar 2017 91,029 posts	0 GregP Don't know where else to post this horror: A pracademic is someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area. The term has a history of at least 30 years, but its first coining is unclear. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words as being 1973
Drell Mar 2017 9:09am, 16 Mar 2017 2,086 posts	0 Drell The reason the first coining is unclear is because nobody dares admit it was them.
GregP Mar 2017 9:16am, 16 Mar 2017 91,033 posts	0 GregP Quite. We thought it was a new invention by ARU (the university down the road), which seems to be offering 'pracademic workshops' in policing. But they are seemingly blameless - or not entirely to blame at least.
GlennR Mar 2017 9:33am, 16 Mar 2017 25,915 posts	0 GlennR Don't you diss my alma mater. Admittedly it was called something completely different then.
GregP Mar 2017 9:48am, 16 Mar 2017 91,036 posts	0 GregP I'm not - I'm a huge fan - more so after last night. It's been called ARU for several years now. Must be due another name change. I might have done my computer science A level at it. Or a bit of what merged into it (Chelmsford College of Higher Education).
GlennR Mar 2017 12:58pm, 16 Mar 2017 25,927 posts	0 GlennR Cambridgeshire college of arts and technology when I was at what is now the Cambridge campus.
Helegant Mar 2017 5:47pm, 17 Mar 2017 4,391 posts	0 Helegant I have a certificate somewhere with ARU on it. Was it UEA when I started?