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| Accreditation
The college holds full accreditation from the Open & Distance Learning Quality Council. ODLQC, set up by Government in 1968, is recognised as the guardian of Distance Learning standards in the UK. ODLQC accreditation sets the provider apart as a member to one of an elite group of providers. Colleges only receive accreditation after rigorous scrutiny of the College, its programmes, tutors and administration. Potential students need to know where good quality can be found as quality is particularly important in Distance Learning. New and inexperienced providers are moving into distance learning, but good intentions and a glossy brochures and web sites are no substitute for experience. What the students need are materials, advice and support that are relevant, reliable and consistent. |
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ODL QC accreditation provides independent, authoritive reassurance that the London Art College's courses provide all these things. You can enrol with complete confidence. The Open & Distance Learning Quality Council has carried out a very thorough review of the activities of the London Art College prior to their recent decision to award full accreditation to the College for a three year period. In addition to specialist assessment of the quality of the course materials we provide to our students, and of a detailed examination of the expertise shown by our course artists in the way they responded to our students, ODLQC also invited a sample of past and present students to comment on their experiences of working with the college. An impressive 94% of the questionnaires sent back expressed themselves as satisfied with the college. |
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The assessor's report to the ODLQC acknowledges the quality of the relationship that is developed with learners, professional courses supported by clear, fair and encouraging guidance from the course artists. The ODLQC accreditation process has underlined the quality of the courses provided by the college, the professionalism and friendliness of the course artists and recognition obtained from past students that our written courses represent very good value for money. Below is a copy of the certificate we were presented and the logo of the ODLQC can be found at the bottom of every page of our website. |
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London Art College - The Early Years
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 Bill Browne (A.W.Browne) Founder |
The London Art College was founded in 1931 by a group of working artists and art editors who believed that a new kind of art school was needed. Foremost amongst them and indeed the originator of the concept was A.W.Browne F.Z.S one of the all time great artists of Fleet Street, then the home of the British newspaper industry. The London Art College was to be unlike any other art college. It would be practical rather than academic. It would be completely comprehensive in the areas where an artist could earn a living. It would provide outstanding tuition by artists who were currently selling their work, rather than by ordinary academics. To make its services available to aspiring artists wherever they lived, it would teach its students by Distance Learning in the comfort and convenience of their own homes. To this great concept all the founding artists and art editors contributed. Everything they had learned by being practicising artists was incorporated and more has been steadily added as courses are regularly renewed and revised over the passing years.Bill Browne, as everyone knew him, won national fame. His first books were published in the 1920's and he continued to publish for another thirty years. |
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 A guide for the young artist by A.W. Browne |
Apart from his best selling books on painting and drawing, for many years he contributed a daily cartoon to one of the leading newspapers and was a regular contributor to the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Mail, News of the World, Sunday People and was consistently featured in Punch, Tatler and other leading magazines of the day. He was an Official War Artist in the 39-45 war. Bill was never too busy or too important to help younger colleagues. Success had not come easily to him in the early years of his career. He realised that artistic talent was not enough. To be successful, an artist needed the knowledge of how art could be used to develop an income. Artists needed to understand particular markets and they needed help to bring out their talent and to adapt their natural flair to meet market demand. |
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 Above a 1930's Letter Heading |
Our courses are new, developed for the twenty first century, but we share with the founders the genuine wish to help all our students, as individuals, to achieve their personal goals - to help them become successful, fulfilled artists. |
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