UK college information

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  1. Alan Contreras

    Alan Contreras New Member

    For everyone's convenience, here is the best single source for UK degree-granter information.

     
  2. Jake_A

    Jake_A New Member

    Excuse me, Dr. Contreras:

    Am I correct in observing that Dr. Jeff Wooller's "Irish International University" (http://www.iiuedu.ie/view.php?v=B1) and "Jeff Wooler College" et. al (http://www.jeffwoollercollege.com) are nowhere to be found on this legitimate and official list, neither as "UK registered bodies" or "UK listed bodies?"

    Tsk, tsk, tsk ......

    Thanks.

    ;)


    Source:
    http://www.dfes.gov.uk/recognisedukdegrees/wcoukd.shtml

    "Who Can Offer UK Degrees?

    "The UK authorities recognise those institutions which have been granted degree awarding powers by either a Royal Charter or an Act of Parliament. These are known as recognised bodies. All UK universities and some higher education colleges are recognised bodies.

    "Recognised Bodies :

    "Click here to see all institutions which are recognised by the UK authorities as having degree awarding powers. You can see the relevant Parliamentary Statutory instrument - click here .

    "Listed Bodies :

    "Other institutions, which do not have the power to award their own degrees, may provide courses which lead to a degree of a recognised body. These are known as listed bodies.

    "Click here to see all institutions which are recognised by the UK authorities as being able to offer courses leading to a degree of a recognised body. You can see the relevant Parliamentary Statutory Instrument."
     
  3. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    Wile some entities have presence in UK they are not a UK Universities.

    IIU - they offer European Degrees as they state.
    They are not an UK university.


    There is the UK law of 86 that allows such a thing as long as the entity is not claimong to be a British school.

    So together with Alan’s web site link one need to know that if the university is not on that list then try to find what is the home country of that university ( WEB ? ;-))
    And in this case GAAP guide lines apply or ODA guide lines for non US degrees in the State of Oregon.

    Learner
     
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  4. galanga

    galanga New Member

    comonwealth not included

    As I understand it, universities in the U.S., Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, and other former British colonies are not regulated by British authorities. So they will not appear on the DfES lists, regardless of their legitimacy.
     
  5. Alan Contreras

    Alan Contreras New Member

    This entity claims to operate on Jersey. I thought that was considered UK home territory. Can someone enlighten me?

    I should mention that I don't find Cambridge International listed anywhere ese, either. I sent an inquiry about it to the UK.
     
  6. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    No. It is part of the last remains of the Duchy of Normandy, and operates as a Crown dependency, largely independently of UK Government (Britain only takes responsibility for, I think, defence and foreign affairs). It has its own Parliament and its own laws and residents do not pay UK taxes.

    As a consequence of that students at UK universities who come from Jersey (and the other Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are charged higher tuiton fees than UK students.

    Malcolm S Jenner
     
  7. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    No. It is part of the last remains of the Duchy of Normandy, and operates as a Crown dependency, largely independently of UK Government (Britain only takes responsibility for, I think, defence and foreign affairs). It has its own Parliament and its own laws and residents do not pay UK taxes.

    As a consequence of that students at UK universities who come from Jersey (and the other Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are charged higher tuiton fees than UK students.

    Malcolm S Jenner
     
  8. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Gosh, your subject matter knowledge about this topic is extensive! First "hand" research, I'm sure!
     
  9. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hi Malcolm: Are there actually any (real) universities on the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man?
     
  10. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    Nothing that I am aware of in the Channel Isalnds.

    The Isle of Man has the Isle of Man International Business School (http://www.ibs.ac.im), which was set up by the Isle of Man government about five years ago. This took over some degree teaching from the Isle of Man College, and was originally set up in conjunction with the University of Liverpool. The early degree courses seem to have been awarded by different UK Universities (Liverpool John Moores, London Guildhall, Newcastle), but now they all seem to be from Liverpool John Moores University via Liverpool Business School.

    The Isle of Man College (http://www.iomcollege.ac.im) runs courses at a lower level (up to HND and Foundation Degree level).

    Malcolm S Jenner
     

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