Education in London facts for kids

Senate House, in Bloomsbury, is the administrative centre of the University of London, a federation of London higher education institutions.

Imperial College London

King's College London

Royal College of Music

London Metropolitan University

University College London

London is a leading global educational centre, having one of the largest populations of overseas students of any city in the world.

Medical education

London is an important centre of medical education. The city's medical schools are attached to the leading hospitals and some of them are several centuries old. The number of schools has been reduced to five by a recent series of mergers:

• Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
• King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry (formerly Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine)
• Imperial College School of Medicine
• University College London Medical School
• St George's Hospital Medical School

Multiculturalism

London is known as a city that is diverse, populated by peoples and cultures from many other parts of the globe. Many London schools require the teaching of foreign language.

Arts education

London is Britain's leading centre for arts education. London's four music conservatories are the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Other drama schools include Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ("RADA"), and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Art & Design schools include Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Camberwell College of Arts, Wimbledon School of Art and London College of Communication and London College of Fashion (all part of the University of the Arts London), and Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Slade School of Art (both part of the University of London), and The Design School (part of Kingston University ) and the Royal College of Art. The former Hornsey College of Art is now part of Middlesex University. The University of East London has an Institute for Performing Arts Development - IPAD.

Student housing

The low quality of the dormitories offered by schools themselves, the shortage of student housing, and the relatively good economic resources of the international students who attend schools in London offered an economic opportunity to firms such as Unite Students which have built thousands of units of student housing in London.

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  The Old Schools, Harrow School