The University of the Arts London (UAL) is a public collegiate university in London, England, United Kingdom. The University of the Arts London was established as The London Institute in 1986, became a university in 2003, and took its present name in 2004. Under the Education Reform Act 1988, the London Institute became a single legal entity, and the first court of governors was instated in the following year, 1989. The first appointed rector was John McKenzie.[8] The institute was granted degree-awarding powers in 1993 by the Privy Council. Sir William Stubbs was appointed rector after the retirement of McKenzie in 1996. On the retirement of Sir William Stubbs as rector in 2001, Sir Michael Bichard was appointed and he encouraged the London Institute to apply for university status. Wimbledon School of Art joined the university as a sixth college in 2006, and was renamed Wimbledon College of Arts. From 2008 to 2010, staff were made redundant and courses closed. James Purnell replaced Nigel Carrington as vice-chancellor and president in March 2021.[17] James Purnell announced his intention to move on from his role as President & Vice-Chancellor of UAL in June 2024 and left in September 2024 to take up a role as CEO of Flint Global. Professor Karen Stanton was appointed as Interim President and Vice-Chancellor at UAL before being made permanent in March 2025. Karen has previously held roles as Vice Chancellor at Bishop Grosseteste University, York St John and Solent Universities. Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts was established by the Technical Education Board of the London County Council on 10 January 1898, in a building beside the South London Gallery, with the financial support of John Passmore Edwards and following advocacy by Edward Burne-Jones, Lord Leighton, Walter Crane and G. F. Watts. The subjects taught were mainly technical until a Fine Arts department was established between the Wars. Central Saint Martins College was formed in 1989 by the merger of Saint Martin's School of Art, founded 1854, and the Central School of Art and Design, founded as the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1896. The Chelsea School of Art originated as part of the South-Western Polytechnic, which opened in 1895 and in 1922 became the Chelsea Polytechnic. In 1957 the science department of the polytechnic was renamed Chelsea College of Science and Technology; the School of Art became independent from it at that time, and merged with the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art to create the Chelsea School of Art in 1964. In 1975 Chelsea merged with Hammersmith College of Art and Building, founded in 1891 by Francis Hawke and taken over by the London County Council in 1904. The London College of Printing descends from the St Bride's Foundation Institute Printing School, which was established in November 1894 under the City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883. The Guild and Technical School opened in Clerkenwell in the same year, but moved a year later to Bolt Court, and became the Bolt Court Technical School; it was later renamed the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography. St Bride's came under the control of the London County Council in 1922 and was renamed the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades; in 1949 it was merged with the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography, forming the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. In 1960 this was renamed the London College of Printing. The printing department of the North Western Polytechnic was merged into it in 1969. The Westminster Day Continuation School opened in 1921, and was later renamed the College for Distributive Trades. It became part of the London Institute in 1986. The London College of Fashion derives from three trade schools for women, the Shoreditch Technical Institute Girls Trade School, founded in 1906, Barrett Street Trade School, founded in 1915, and Clapham Trade School, founded in 1927; all were established by the Technical Education board of the London County Council to train skilled workers for the clothing and hairdressing trades.[22] The Barrett Street school became a technical college after the Education Act 1944 and was renamed Barrett Street Technical College. Shoreditch also became a technical college; in 1955 it merged with Clapham Trade School to form Shoreditch College for the Garment Trades. It became part of the London Institute in January 1986. The foundation of Wimbledon College of Arts goes back to 1890, when an art class for the Rutlish School for Boys was started. Between 1904 and 1920 this was housed in the Wimbledon Technical Institute in Gladstone Road. It became independent in 1930 and moved to Merton Hall Road in 1940. Theatre design was taught from 1932, and became a department in 1948. In 1993 the school, which previously had been controlled by the London Borough of Merton, was incorporated as an independent higher education institution. UAL received an overall ranking of 27 out of 130 in the 2027 Complete University Guide league tables, up from 38th place in 2023 and 29th in the 2024 ranking. A Queen's Anniversary Prize was awarded to Camberwell College of Arts for the conservation of "works of art on paper" in 1996. Chelsea College of Arts and the London College of Fashion share the "Creative Learning in Practice Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning". The 2001 Research Assessment Exercise published results by subject area on a point scale from 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 4, 5 to 5*, the University achieved a 5 rating. In 2006-07, this rating equated to a QR grant of £8.6 million.[49] In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Times Higher Education's RAE league tables placed the university 44th out of 132 universities in the institution-wide table. In the "Art and Design" subject tables it was placed 22nd out of 72 submissions (for "submission A" - the majority of the constituent colleges) and 23rd out of 72 submissions (for "submission B" - Wimbledon College of Art alone).[50] The university had the largest number of researchers in the arts and design subject area (237.89 full-time equivalent staff); it was followed by Glasgow School of Art with 76.85 equivalent staff. The University of the Arts London Students' Union (stylised as Arts Students' Union or Arts SU) offers various services to students, including running student-led sports clubs and societies. ↑ Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. 1 2 "Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25" (PDF). University of the Arts, London. 1 2 "Who's working in HE?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Staff numbers by HE provider: HE staff by HE provider and activity standard occupational classification. 1 2 3 4 5 "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Students by HE provider: HE student enrolments by HE provider. ↑ "Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022/23" (PDF). University of the Arts London. ↑ [s.n.] (4 June 2013). University guide 2015: University of the Arts London. The Guardian. ↑ Lee, Joanne (2013). 'Without a Master':Learning Art through an Open Curriculum. In: Matthew Charles Potter (editor) (2013). The Concept of the 'Master' in Art Education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the Present. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9781409435556, pp. ↑ Smithers, Rebecca; Polly Curtis (15 July 2003). "Art world welcomes Institute change". The Guardian. London. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Brief History - Revised September 2014" (PDF). 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University of the Arts London. ↑ UAL (23 October 2020). "James Purnell joins UAL as President & Vice-Chancellor". UAL. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). Camberwell College of Arts Archived 5 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Archived 14 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). Chelsea College of Art & Design Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Baxter, Robert (2001). GB 1574: London College of Printing Archive Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). GB 2159: London College of Fashion Archived 3 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). GB 2159: Barrett Street Technical College Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). GB 2159: Shoreditch College for the Garment Trades Archived 3 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Tancell, Julie (2002). Cordwainers College Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. ↑ Wimbledon School of Art, May 2004: Institutional audit[dead link]. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. p. 4. ↑ "Report and Financial Statement for the year ended 31 July 17" (PDF). University of the Arts London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018. 1 2 "UAL: Annual Report and Financial Statements 24/25" (PDF). arts.ac.uk. ↑ "Complete University Guide 2027". The Complete University Guide. ↑ "Guardian University Guide 2026". The Guardian. ↑ "Good University Guide 2026". The Times. ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2027". ↑ "THE World University Rankings 2026". 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Provider > Applicants, applications, acceptances & offers. 1 2 "University League Tables entry standards 2027". The Complete University Guide. 1 2 "Tariff Groups: HE providers by tariff group". Department for Education. 31 July 2025. 1 2 "HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year". HESA. ↑ "Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics". HESA. 27 January 2026. ↑ "Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking". The Times. ↑ Clarence-Smith, Louisa (11 March 2024). "Cambridge to scrap 'unjust' state school targets". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. ↑ "University of the Arts London RAE". RAE online statistics. Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. ↑ "Times Higher Education RAE results - see the main institution-wide table and the subsection on "Art and Design"" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2012. Archived from the original on 18 November 2009. 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QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 19. května 2021Mezinárodně etablovaný umělec, vedoucí ateliéru Design skla na Fakultě multimediálních komunikací Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, profesor Petr Stanický, bude jediným zástupcem České republiky letošního bienále v Londýně. „Vystavovat v Somerset House podléhá prísným podmínkám a opatřením. Musel jsem vše rozkreslit, staticky vyřešit a naplánovat spoustu detailů. Šéfkurátorka Es Devlin, se kterou jsem projekt konzultoval, jej přijala v podstatě beze změn,“ popisuje profesor Petr Stanický. „Tento projekt jsme začali připravovat ještě před pandemií, původní akce měla proběhnout loni. London Design Biennale je mezinárodní přehlídka konající se na prestižní adrese v královském paláci Somerset House. Ambiciózní výstavní projekt, který si pokládá otázky, zda a jak můžeme designem ovlivnit svět k lepšímu, představí přes třicet vybraných umělců, kurátorů a institucí. Poslední londýnské bienále v roce 2018 navštívilo více než 40 000 návštěvníků. Petr Stanický je v zahraničí uznávaný autor. Koncem devadesátých let studoval na proslulé Rhode Island School of Design v Providence, kde se mimo jiné potkal se světoznámým sochařem Brucem Chao. Později se díky prestižnímu Fulbrightovu stipendiu do New Yorku na několik let přestěhoval. „Petr Stanický je uznávaný odborník a jsem velmi rád, že bude reprezentovat naši fakultu na tak významné události. Ačkoliv se Petr Stanický později přesunul zpět do České republiky, kde působí jako vedoucí ateliéru Design skla na Univerzitě Tomáše Bati, i nadále se věnuje zahraničním projektům. Jen letos jej čeká například prezentace na The Venice Glass Week v italských Benátkách, výstava ve skotském Latheronwheel nebo v Dánsku na European Glass Context, kde bude představen výběr toho nejlepšího ze současného evropského sklářského umění. While acknowledging the historical atelier-based, fine art approach, study in this area builds on and respects the traditional, as well as providing opportunities to explore contemporary approaches. What is an Art Business Top-up degree?We offer a wide range of qualifications here, covering you from Foundation level all the way up to postgraduate study. How to prepare for your Master’s degree at LCADStudying your postgraduate degree with us soon? Which School of Art course is right for you?Feeling stuck with choosing the right course? Below is an overview of the different courses our School of Art has to offer. However, my passion for marketing, next to my studies at LSDM, helped me reach the right position. "Where passion becomes a profession" will always be my favorite slogan, because of you!Pamela MallahMA MarketingI live in São Paulo, Brazil. I chose LSDM because it's a renowned school and also for its course, which is online. My experience in the course was wonderful. Through it, I was able to broaden my horizons and finally, when I finished, I was able to get a job in the Big Four.I chose this master's because of its interdisciplinary character, the integration of project design and communication design is ideal for my career in one aspect as an art and design educator as well as a designer. My course so far has been very exciting and very very enriching, because it’s basically not just about design and design methodologies but it actually turns you into a complete solution maker. My units so far, like design communication and design thinking are very, let’s say, intriguing in the way that they actually nurture you to become a complete designer, a complete thinker and I’m having a great time learning. LSDM gives you the opportunity to attend your studies in the most suitable way, according to your lifestyle. 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I feel the dynamics of the classes, the activities, the interactivity through the forums, the proposed projects, the conferences with the tutors and colleagues, the way the content is made available, absolutely everything works well to provide a better educational achievement from classes, with motivation and enthusiasm.Bruna de Paula LeiteBA Design I love doing weekly assignments and sharing my thoughts and impressions about the lesson on the forum with other students and our tutors. I especially remember the implementation of the first projects at the beginning of the studies. Until that time, I had not had to study either abroad or online, so it was challenging for me, but with the help of tutors who are always in touch, I could do it.Anastasia ZharkovaBA Design I was surprised by the course and the content. I had already done a course online but without the same level of learning provided by the LSDM. The LSDM doesn’t only offer us content, it encourages us to learn, to explore and deepen our knowledge. Self-learning was always the best way to learn. It’s a very practical course, for its nature makes us apply our knowledge. The level of learning I’ve been acquiring is unparalleled, because we can easily understand and assimilate the contents while applying them in everyday issues.Cristina AbreuBA Marketing When I became aware that I could get a Master’s 100% online, I didn’t hesitate and enrolled. This way, I can focus on my professional activity and study at my own pace, in more convenient schedules and achieve my goals.Gilberto PereiraMA Marketing With this Master’s, I’m sure that, besides defining myself in the market, as a visual designer, web designer, I’ll be able to have a much more defined and accurate sensibility and visual culture than those so far. The experience is like no other, the topics addressed are debated by students from other countries who live different realities. Learning through practice, playing with process and working with clients; students at the school gain real-world experience in both individual and collaborative projects, engaging with professionals, communities and companies. There is a strong emphasis in our studios on socially engaged architecture, art and design applied to both local and global contexts. The many specialist facilities you could find yourself using include wood and metal workshops, print rooms, darkrooms and digital manufacturing technology. Important update: In 2020 we took the decision to remove the name of Sir John Cass from the title of the school, recognising that the use of his name contributed to the redemption of a man without acknowledging the enormous pain he caused as a major figure in the early development of the slave trade, and the legacy of this pain. 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Historie a struktura UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) is a public university in London, England, United Kingdom, and is world-ranked for art and design. It comprises six colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, the London College of Communication, the London College of Fashion, and Wimbledon College of Arts, with origins dating back to 1842. UAL was established as The London Institute in 1986, becoming a university in 2003. It hosts a large international student body and had 22,950 students in 2024/25. Several colleges have received Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for achievements in areas like fashion, conservation, and design.
Pro členění a jednotlivé kolaborace
The London Institute became a single legal entity, and the first court of governors was instated in 1989. Wimbledon School of Art joined the university as a sixth college in 2006, and was renamed Wimbledon College of Arts. Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts was established by the Technical Education Board of the London County Council on 10 January 1898, in a building beside the South London Gallery, with support from John Passmore Edwards and advocacy by Edward Burne-Jones a další. Central Saint Martins College was formed in 1989 by the merger of Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. Chelsea School of Art originated as part of the South-Western Polytechnic, opened in 1895, and underwent several reorganisations before becoming the Chelsea School of Art in 1964.
Ocenění a hodnocení
UAL received a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the conservation of works of art on paper in 1996. The 2001 Research Assessment Exercise published results by subject area with the University achieving a 5 rating. In 2008, Times Higher Education’s RAE league tables placed the university among the top national institutions in art and design. The university had the largest number of researchers in the arts and design subject area (237.89 full-time equivalent staff). The University of the Arts London Students' Union offers various services to students, including running student-led sports clubs and societies.
Současný stav a fakulty
Six colleges tvoří UAL: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Arts. Tato sestava odráží široké spektrum oborů od designu přes módu až po komunikaci a tisk. Všechny koleje mají dlouhou historii výuky art a design a pokračují v mezinárodně uznávaných programech a projektech, které posilují postavení UAL na světové scéně. UAL si udržuje silnou mezinárodní studentkou komunitu a nadále rozšířuje spolupráci s průmyslem a kulturními institucemi.