Courses in Creative Enterprise and the Printing Schools and some staff members have been earmarked for redundancy by Sandra Kemp, the Head of College (appointed in February 2009) in order to align the LCC it with its "core strengths" and make up for a deficit of £1.3 million. A possible restructuring plan was communicated with just two members of the SU: Helen Gimber, SU President and Andrea Strachan, SU General Manager in late June 2009.
This restructuring will mean that a number of courses in the Printing and Creative Enterprise schools will be closed. This includes the popular BA Marketing and Advertising and MA Marketing Communications degrees. From the Creative Enterprise school, only courses in PR and Creative Advertising Strategy will survive the restructuring plans. These measures involve not only high staff redundancy numbers, but also the devaluation of the degrees of thousands of current students and alumni.
I was kinda stunned by this news :( I was about to start my BAMA this september and I have to do soometing about it..
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ReplyDeleteWe are occupying our university in vienna since 20 days and it already spread through whole austria, so i hope your struggle goes as well as ours.
solidary greetings from Vienna.
Occupations are also spreading throughout Germany. A lot of Universities got occupied and it feels like there are joining more and more everyday. Hopefully Trier will join as well next week...
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Unfortunately, London College of Communication has never been a good college. Having spent three years struggling to finish my BA, LCC has neither given me a good education, nor has it given me any support throughout these years. Its name, ironically represents really BAD communication systems between the students and the tutors. Needless to say, it has gotten itself in a lot of mess and it needs to do a lot of work before it can achieve a status of a somewhat "okay" college...
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This is not "their" and "our" struggle... but we are in this struggle together!
ReplyDeleteBecause the roots causing the problems are located on the global level!
~ One World - One Struggle ~
PS: http://emancipating-education-for-all.org
Solidarity from Rijeka, Croatia!
ReplyDelete@ a.s.y.a I agree with you, Im in my 3rd year there and it has been a huge dissapointment in terms of quality of the lectures and tutors. All my peers think the same. Tutors level of knowledge is very average or below standards of highest education.
ReplyDeleteChanges must be made and incompetent tutors should be fired.
P.S never let your friends go study to LCC.
Can someone tell me if any staff (academic and non-academic) are actively participating in this, as it effects all? Thank -you.
ReplyDeleteLCC is the worst of all UAL colleges. The lecturers and tutors have no content, they have zero managerial skills let alone people skills and for some units there were no lectures given! To top it all, the lectures had severe spelling and grammatical errors!!!what a waste of one's time and money! wish i had never made this choice.
ReplyDeleteit depends on what you are studying. The Design Faculty for example has for a long time enjoyed a very good reputation and has excellent staff.
ReplyDeleteThe Flower Design Courses at LCC are extremely well run and achieve good student uptake and retention. The high level of design education integrated into the course with practical training and 'live' event experience (in the Saatchi Gallery for example) is second to none in the UK. This is a constant comment in student feedback surveys which regularly achieve results in the high 90%ages. The tutors have broad and in-depth knowledge of floral event work and design principles and thinking and deliver lessons of a high standard which successfully enrichs the students' experience. In addition, they show genuine concern for students' needs and interest in their ambitions and do all in their power to make sure that they attain their goals......both educational and professional. This is borne by the excellent student attendance at lectures and tutorials. It is also a profitable course for UAL attracting a good cohort of national and international students. Having said all that however, the management of LCC and UAL refuse to acknowledge this and claim "it does not fit the rervised Mission Statement of LCC" They are going to cut the courses from July 2010 from which date the 4 members of staff in Flower Design will be redundant. What a waste of teaching and course leading talent! What an end to student opportunity!
ReplyDeleteSandra Kemp was the third choice for the job and she was very unpopular at the RCA - they were glad to see the back of her. Good to see that she has her priorities right - getting rid of staff but having plenty of money to take students to the High Court and bouncers on every door. LCC does need a shake up but people are being walked over - this is the political / managerial culture in the UK - so well done you students who are fighting this and good luck.
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Who is responsible for it and can give me the ok?
It is a no budget project - so we can’t pay for the footage. But of course the owner of the rights will be listed in the credits as providing footage.
It would be great if you can give me some information as soon as possible!
Please contact me: johanna@coop99.at
Thank you, greets from Vienna
Johanna Oberhollenzer
Weren't the staffing and financial problems at LCC inherited from the previous Head of College? Who is now the Deputy Rector - What a joke!
ReplyDeleteAs an ex-MA photojournalist student, i found the course content and its tutors well below standard and regreted to waste time,effort and going into debt for a course which doesn't worth a penny.
ReplyDeletei wonder if patrick sutherland the course leader is among those made redundent, as i believe he deservedly merit a kick in the ass out.
I have an interview for the BA Film and Television course to start in September 2010. Does anyone have ANYTHING good to say about it, before I waste my hard earned money and time for three years. I'm so disappointed that LCC has a bad rep. I expected it to be good since the affiliated colleges have a good rep.
ReplyDeleteThe University of the Arts is on the down, there is no doubt about that. I hear they had a staff survey but the results were so bad they wouldn't publish them.
ReplyDeleteBottom again in the Student Satisfaction Survey 2010 - best avoided if you you're serious about an arts education.
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