UCL and the UoL?

I was wondering about the situation between UCL and the UoL at present.....is it looking like its gonna remain as part of UoL or leaving in the near future? This is because recently looking at LSE threads I noticed that LSE will award its own degrees out in 2008 and Imperials already about to leave as well. Is this looking to be the case at UCL?

I am wondering becuase I would like to use SOAS and KCL's libaries and I think if they withdraw from UoL I techinically can't use them.

Reply 1

pharmakos

You're worrying too much. UCL won't leave the U of L for sure--at least in the foreseeable future--even if, according to the THES, it will start to award its own degree in 2008

Reply 2

Vincente

it will start to award its own degree in 2008

Isin't awarding your own degree technically making yourself independent of UoL? This is what Imperial are doing this year.

Reply 3

pharmakos

Vincente

Isin't awarding your own degree technically making yourself independent of UoL? This is what Imperial are doing this year.

Nope! LSE is going to award its own degree, but its director said to the THES that LSE would have no intention to leave the U of L.

"London trio to award their own degrees

Rebecca Attwood
Published: 23 February 2007

The London School of Economics, King's College and University College London confirmed this week that they planned to start awarding their own degrees, raising new doubts about the future of the federal University of London, writes Rebecca Attwood.

Students from the university's colleges have historically received a University of London certificate on their graduation day. But increasing numbers of colleges have been seeking the power to award their own degrees. King's, UCL and the LSE plan to exercise these powers from the next academic year.

Writing in the LSE's annual accounts, director Sir Howard Davies says: "Many of our students are now surprised to find themselves given a University of London certificate on their graduation day. We have therefore decided that it would be better for the LSE to issue degrees in its own name in future. We await approval from the University of London as a whole to that proposal."

In a more radical move, Imperial College London announced that it would secede from the federal university in December 2005. Sir Howard said that this "would not be the right course" for the LSE, but added that the school was looking for improvements in the governance of the University of London and in its cost control. "We keep our position under review," he said.

King's and UCL also told The Times Higher that they hoped to award their own degrees from 2007-08.

The Institute of Education recently gained powers to award its own degrees. "

http://www.thes.co.uk/current_editio...ory_id=2035393

Reply 4

MadNatSci

I heard rumours that UCL is placing itself in a position to become the dominant force in the UoL, especially if LSE does leave it, with an eye to absorbing all the itty-bitty colleges.

And next, the world...