ABSTRACT
Malcolm Frazer, chief executive of the Council for National Academic Awards and very tall, seemed taller still at a degree award ceremony to students of the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in December 1988. Most of the students’ figures were neat and rather controlled beneath their BA and MA gowns and hoods. Dancers on the whole are not tall, except for some of the men. Frazer had been invited not only because Laban degrees are validated by the Council, but also because the CNAA has been the principal higher education body to stimulate and introduce to Britain degrees in dance studies and performing arts at BA, MA M.Phil, and doctoral level. When Malcolm Frazer shook the hand of each successful student the world of academic tradition-he is himself a scientist-met the world of dance and acknowledged in British higher education a partnership in the pursuit of knowledge.
