LONDON SCHOOLS PART THREE LONDON METROPOLITAN

摘要

Unlike the previous two London schools discussed - the Royal College of Art (AR March 2013) and Central St Martins (AR April 2013) - London Metropolitan is not an internationally famous art and design college. Instead, it is a substantial university of some 23,000 students, an amalgamation of two former 19th-century polytechnics, within which the creative disciplines are but a cog in the larger educational machinery. For many years refusing to take part in newspaper league tables (apparently on a point of principle), the university recently relented and debuted pretty much at the bottom, ranked this year by the Ghiardian as 118th in a list of 120 competitors. Yet more disturbingly, last August, the UK Border Agency noisily revoked London Met's visa licence after what was described as a 'serious systemic failure', rendering the university unable to enrol foreign students.