University College of the Creative Arts
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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 | Dame Zandra Rhodes DBE RDI |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Bashir Makhoul PhD |
| 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.ac.uk |
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Complete (2018, national) |
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The Guardian (2018, national) |
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Times/Sunday Times (2018, national) |
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| Teaching Excellence Framework | Silver | |
The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is a specialist art and design university in the south of England.
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.
In its previous forms and current form, alumni of the UCA as well as students have achieved artistic excellence with very considerable commerciality and critical merit of certain alumni's work such as Tracey Emin, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Chris Shepherd, Zandra Rhodes, and Karen Millen.
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).
The University for the Creative Arts announced in February 2011 that it was discussing designating part of its Maidstone campus for use by MidKent College. Further to this, MidKent College expressed its willingness to buy the Maidstone campus from 2012 and phase out the UCA presence at the campus by 2014.
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