London College of Advanced Studies

Does anyone has any previous experience with this Institution?
London College of Advanced Studies
http://www.lgs-edu.com/
cheers

 

It does not appear on this list of recognized UK universities:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/recognisedukdegrees/index.cfm?fuseaction=institutes.list&InstituteCategoryID=1#Alpha_L

 

LCAS mentions University of Greenwich on their site under "Affiliations":
http://www.lgs-edu.com/affiliations.htm
Greenwich's site:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/

It's unclear what their relationship with that school is ... Greenwich is ranked pretty low on the Times rankings, for whatever that is worth:
http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php

I found this document on Greenwich's site, describing their visit to LCAS and their evaluation of it:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/word_doc/0018/203418/APSC-08-41-LCAS-report.doc

But after reading Greenwich's site and LCAS' own site I'm still not sure about their accreditation status. This may be due to the fact I'm not extremely familiar with the details of the UK's accreditation system ...

Edit: After looking through their site a bit more, their courses page seems to give some info on how their degrees are/aren't validated:
http://www.lgs-edu.com/courses.htm

It looks like one degree is validated by University of Portsmouth, another by University of Greenwich, and still another by University of Wales. Others are validated/accredited/awarded by (?) NCC Education or Edexcel. In fact it looks like the validated courses are delivered by NCC Education but validated by the universities listed above?! It all seems very complicated to me ...

 

Something this obscure regarding degree validation appears somewhat dubious; I believe I’d look elsewhere…

 

Greenwich is a relatively new university - I think it was formed by merging two colleges. My nephew earned a BSc degree from there and had no problem landing job with it.

 

Hmm

Well I have to agree with definitely with you!!
does not seem to be a Uni. it is rather a small scale college...I would say a school offering some franchise degrees.
Well there are some out there....
I was considering to join them, actually I was offered a teaching position....but I am wondering if having this on my CV will look good?

 

The London College of Advanced Studies is not on the official list of institutions that are "validated" by a British university to remotely offer a degree program.

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/recognisedukdegrees/index.cfm?fuseaction=institutes.list&InstituteCategoryID=2

But NCC Education is listed. NCC Education appears to be a private company that re-sells British further and higher education. Presumably NCC Education then sub-contracts with local premises internationally in order to set up local teaching and testing centers and whatnot. I'm guessing that's how London College of Advanced Studies comes into the picture.

http://www.nccedu.com/

Here's NCC's 'Become a Partner' page

http://www.nccedu.com/Become a Partner/index.asp

I'm not exactly sure what to make of this, but I'm most definitely not impressed.

Here's NCC's list of its 15 'centres' in London. It includes LCAS.

http://www.nccedu.com/find%20a%20centre/index.asp?Region=1153&Country=1250

The NCC London roster also includes something called Western Governor's Graduate School. That's certainly cute. Cornwall and Devon have governors? Or is this thing just ripping off the American school's name and reputation?

http://www.wggs.co.uk/

NCC re-sells what it calls British further and higher education in no less than 50 different countries, from Bahrain to Zimbabwe. (But not in the United States, Australia or Canada for some reason.) Many of the countries host multiple centers. For example, there are six listed for Iran. China is well represented.