I like the way someone voted down my post where I supplied, ON REQUEST, the list of courses that were in clearing 2012. I guess that list was supposed to be kept secret..
Also USinUK4MA for the benefit of non-SOASians is almost certainly a sock puppet of SOAS Marketing Department. They do that (sock puppeteering) a lot on this site. Note how, according to that spin, the staff to student ratio allegedly puts SOAS up there with Oxford and Cambridge according to him or her. Despite the fact that Oxbridge has one-on-one tuition, and most SOAS 'teaching' staff never teach, they just 'research' (some bull****). Also SOAS may well be the only institution in the UK that finds the Guardian's league tables more credible that any other league table. The Guardian league tables are generally considered the LEAST reliable of league tables. Try the Times.
The long and short of it is, it's a failing university (dropping down the league tables consistently and quickly) with funding problems, and it's devaluing its own degrees by dismissing league tables, expanding further, reducing its entry requirements and cutting its difficult courses. SOAS knows well that in order to survive all it has to do is expand its Law and Economics degrees provision and create more spaces for LSE rejects. No problem with that. But then it's inevitable they will go to great lengths to deny they have dropped their standards or that there has been a fundamental change in the nature of the place. In addition, SOAS will acquire North Block Senate House, and when it becomes an unrecognizable entity with many more international students with weak English skills (already noticeable among the student body) but strong bank balances it will STILL insist that nothing changed.
Oh, and SOAS is better regarded in Timbuktu (according to an alleged anecdote from a Marketing sock-puppet) than in the UK, so **** league tables??? Are you kidding me?!