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I'm currently doing a BTEC in Communication in France and I want to apply to LCF after that. I was wondering : can I apply directly to an BA(Hons) ? Or do I have to prepare a foundation degree first ? Thanks for your help, I'm not used with the UK applications.

no. you don't have to do that. foundation degree is another course and the degree is another. i have friends who did a btec then got onto the degree course as well. although i think their btec was in fashion. you can, however, get onto the last year of the degree course from your final foundation degree year but it's extremely hard.
 
Is here anyone who has finished fashion management course? Because it's very important for me to know about job possibilities. Is it easy to get a job after you graduate or is it extremely hard to find a well-paid job?

fashion management...as in MA?? cause my friend did that, and he's got a good job. but that's cause he worked through out his entire MA course. very stressful. his other uni mates however...not very lucky. some of them couldn;t find jobs. one even ended up in uniqlo as a sales assistant. great jobs are hard to get by without experience. so start somewhere anyway. very very few people get a fantastic job with a massive pay check straight away.
 
fashion management...as in MA?? cause my friend did that, and he's got a good job. but that's cause he worked through out his entire MA course. very stressful. his other uni mates however...not very lucky. some of them couldn;t find jobs. one even ended up in uniqlo as a sales assistant. great jobs are hard to get by without experience. so start somewhere anyway. very very few people get a fantastic job with a massive pay check straight away.

Will it be more clever if I got a management degree in a very good university and then tried to get a job in a fashion industry?
 
LCF IS a very good university. you have to understand that high positions with good pay go to people with experience. the chances of you landing a job with a good pay check as oppose to someone who's got years of experience IN the fashion management field...very very slim. you also have to take into account the company you want to work with. do they have openings?? it's not as available as non paid internships. however, if you do well in uni, they have connections to places. my friend has had offers from burberry, lvmh and the gucci group. burberry came while he was in uni. the the other 2 came after. he graduated with a first honours.
 
LCF IS a very good university. you have to understand that high positions with good pay go to people with experience. the chances of you landing a job with a good pay check as oppose to someone who's got years of experience IN the fashion management field...very very slim. you also have to take into account the company you want to work with. do they have openings?? it's not as available as non paid internships. however, if you do well in uni, they have connections to places. my friend has had offers from burberry, lvmh and the gucci group. burberry came while he was in uni. the the other 2 came after. he graduated with a first honours.

I am non UK resident, so can you please tell me what a person needs to do to graduate with a first honours?
 
I am a German fashion editor, I want to apply to MA Fashion Journalism at LCF for oct.2009. Does sb. have any hints referring to what they want to have, how is the interview like -what kind of questions do they ask, what kind of "aptitude test" are applicants supposed to do... etc. ? answers would be great! thanks a lot in advance!
 
I am non UK resident, so can you please tell me what a person needs to do to graduate with a first honours?

:D it's the same for everyone else...study hard and work hard!!! writing a good thesis too!!!
 
Does someone know if a non-UK resident (I'm from Lithuania) needs a foundation year to study fashion management?
I couldn't find this info in their webpage, nor could I find what are the entry requirements for Lithuanians...
 
Ievut, no you don't! i knew an american girl who came straight from high school
 
i know i seriously bad mouthed about lcf in my previous post and is glad Katie123 agrees with me. honestly, it is near the end of the school year and all i can say is, i will probably continue to bad mouth about this institution.

here are some very sh**ty things about my course. i dont know if it is like this in other similar courses but this is how it is.
1. our 1st year pattern cutting tutor came to school on the first day smelling of heavy alcohol and failed to teach students through out the year. student complain since 1st term, he did not get fired until just recently. what a waste of our time and money for this year!
2. due to the lack of ability to teach, our 15 hour lesson per week was shortened to 7 hours per week, which is no more than part time hours. but we are still paying full time fees
3. student complaints are strutted off and not only did we get no good news in general, the news we get just gets worse
4. according to my course director, the hours of lesson per week in the coming school year will be reduced to 5-7 hours per week for full time courses.
5. some good tutors are let go for unknown reason. many things in this school is kept hushed and smells very fishy
6. since my current course director will be leaving, they STILL have not found a replacement and even if they did, no one knows what is going on
7. 90% or perhaps 100% of the students in my class complain of unsatisfactory on the lack of knowledge we are being taught

i was interning at 2 places at the same time of going to school just to fill that void and to justify my parent's £10,400.

perhaps it is not as bad in other courses or perhaps i just stumbled onto a very bad year. but this is what i experienced at lcf and now i just want to leave.
 
i have a web design teacher that in this term we were probably meant to have like, 8 lectures with him. bear in mind one of our final projects includes making a website individually.
he's only showed up 4 times and when he missed it, instead of letting us know through blackboard (the uni's website) in advance, everyone would be sitting in the hall at uni at 9 in the morning and when the computer finally opened we went in, checked blackboard, and find out he'd posted a notice saying he wouldn't be in at 9.30 (our class starting at 9, so everyone was already there). that happened 3 out of the 4 times he missed and he never even apologised or had an excuse for it.

i keep getting the impression that some tutors that teach there just can't be bothered and the uni is DEFINITELY not a priority in their careers. i understand some fashion professionals teaching to make an extra buck but their lack of commitment is disrespectful to the students, whose uni is a priority in their lives.
 
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Thanks, Katie!
I wrote a few emails to LCF about entry requirements to study Fashion Management, but I neber got any replies.
Should I call..?
 
^yea, there is something about their email as well. i remember emailing them long ago, but i never got a reply. where as i remember when i was a international student at csm, whenever i had a question through email, they reply very promptly.

i study bespoke tailoring. this course is pretty messed up right now. im pretty sure i stepped in on a bad year. cause there is just so much drama going on and all i want is just to do my studies, finish my studies and get out of there feeling at least 50% satisfied that i learned many things.

i was looking at chambre syndicale's schedule for their BA. what a difference! they have 30-32 hours of lessons each week, compare to my pity 7 hours!
if i understand french, i would immediately pack up my things and flee there instead.

one thing i like about lcf is that they have very good facilities, good industry machines and being able to go to all the UAL libraries was good. but honestly, i didn't spend loads of money so i can coup up by myself in a library, i want to be taught.
 
MUXU your experiences sound terrible. You would think a course that requires so much teaching would be intensive, I don't see how someone could be taught anything in 7 hours.

I'm about to finish my second year studying Fashion illustration, and while (almost) all of the tutors are nice we rarely see them other than to give us an initial brief. This term has been better as we're working with professional designers but sometimes it all doesn't seem worth it just to have UAL on my CV.
 
Is it considered prestigious, very good in fashion industry, to get a fashion management degree in LCF? Or it's just lame?
 
^i really dont know much about management. perhaps someone who works in this field would know

yea, i thought it would be pretty intense too. i thought there would be more pattern cutting, which was what i wanted to learn, but we barely learned anything in pattern cutting class since the tutor either doesnt show up or just plainly dont know how to teach. im sure he is very good, but he is just not teacher material.

im really questioning whether or not it is worth it to get this degree.
i was gonna stay on to 2nd and 3rd year, thinking i will get these really good tutors that people have been talking about. but now the school tell us these really sh**ty news and i dont even know what to do anymore
 
It's hard. I know I certainly debated whether or not to return for the second year. It turned out I made the right choice since this year has been a lot better (despite the biudget being cut by 50%) and I'm starting to make a lot of good contacts within the industry, but it still feels like an uphill struggle.

Next year I get to create my own project so I'm looking forward to that.

Have you spoken to any graduates/3rd years from your course MUXU? they might be able to give you advice.
 

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