University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 2005 (as the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester) |
| Chancellor | Zandra Rhodes |
| Vice-Chancellor | Bashir Makhoul |
| Students | 5,934 (2015/16) |
| Undergraduates | 4,500 (2015/16) |
| Postgraduates | 305 (2015/16) |
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Other students
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1,129 FE (2015/16) |
| Location |
Canterbury and Rochester, Kent Epsom and Farnham, Surrey, England, UK |
| Affiliations | GuildHE |
| Website | uca |
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Global rankings
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National rankings
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Complete (2018, national) |
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The Guardian (2018, national) |
21 | |
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Times/Sunday Times (2018, national) |
58 | |
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British Government assessment
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| Teaching Excellence Framework | Silver | |
The University for the Creative Arts is a specialist art and design university in the south of England.
It was formed in 2005 as University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester when the Kent Institute of Art and Design was merged into the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, which already had degree-awarding status; both constituent schools had been formed by merging the local art schools, in Kent and Surrey respectively. It was granted university status in 2008, and the name changed to the present one. In 2016 it merged with the Open College of the Arts.
The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.
Following the election of a Coalition government, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills introduced legislation to increase tuition fees while reducing government spending on Higher Education in real terms and the University for the Creative Arts was revealed to be the fourth most-cut university in England with a cut of 7.8% (10.2% in real terms).
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