I'm going into my final year in October at LCF- currently doing the Product Design Development - Accessories pathway...in regards to other courses I cant be specific, in regards to the London College of Fashion as an institute- I can tell you 'a lot'.
Just be prepared to wonder why you pay so much for tuition and get so little from it. You will learn- but that would be mostly through self taught methods you'll just 'pick up' as a result of a lack of proper teaching and guidance. LCF do like to boast about being 'the' place to go if you want to get into the industry, but its a hefty price to pay for what is essentially a piece of paper with a stamp! I can't say that I learnt 'nothing'- the reason I may sound slightly negative is the fact that it was an uphill struggle- there are so many problems that you come up against with the uni which they should have 'down-pat' now as they've been doing it for so long!All in all its not ALL bad but I won't be singing their praises if anyone asks, my advice is also to keep your options open- if there are other (they may be lesser known), institutes research them too! They seem to have a lot more time for their students in my experience.
If anyone wants to know anything else I'll be as informative as I can!
they say the price of the tuition will be the same as what you paid for first year BA. say, if i pay £10,000 in my first year, it will be the same for my second and third year. but whether that is for sure i will have to see when i get to my second year.
i find my BA is pretty boring. im bored of learning just one thing. there arent even class choices or rotating schedules or major/minor. i feel like i am not learning as much i paid more than £10,000 for at all! focusing on just one thing and expected to do that monday to friday is making my hate what i am learning. i dont know if this is the general uk school system of just the art school system but i find it totally sucks. now i wonder why i even come to study in uk in the first place.
i really wish my course includes some classes i can attend so i can direct my focus on other things instead of just one thing and that way i can learn better because i am constantly recycling a learning process instead of having a static learning process which will soon grow stale. which it already has for a long time now.
Still sounds ALOT better than uni in Australia.. hahaha
I just applied for this course.. did you apply in the end? have you had an interview? What are your thoughts on the course? Look fwd to hearing from you...
Katie123: Have you ever though that the reason why 5-6 students already have left is because fashion related subject might not be their passion and pathway in life and that they were'nt comitted to do as much work outside school, rather than the "poor" quality of the courses?
I know for a fact that at least 2 of the students that are leaving are because of not enough workload. I do agree that independent studying is crucial but when you only have 4 lectures a term and one of the teachers has only attended 50% of them so far (only letting the students know he's not coming when everyone is already sitting in the classroom), you can't help but feel unmotivated. and i think it's pretty rude to say it's 'pretty stupid' to complain about LCF when you're not in my course and you're not completely aware of what's happening. me complaining about the work load does not mean i don't do work on my own time or am not willing to learn things on my own. but as an international student paying 11k a year, having 5 months off for holidays in total (christmas-easter-summer) and only 3 classes a week feels like a bit of a waste of money sometimes.