School visit to LCC in Elephant and Castle

As the year 12 class of Visual Arts and Design at The BRIT School we visited the LCC university in Elephant and Castle to be shown the facilities of the university and to be told about what they offer and what they specialise in. We were split into small groups and were each given a personal tour of the university by some of the current students studying at LCC. Throughout the tour we looked at various different rooms in which certain subject matters are taught and practised in; we also looked at some of the work that has been created by the students, for example in the print rooms we looked at the students in process of screen printing and using screen printing to print onto fabric and then comparing different colours and fabrics to see the variation between them which I found interesting to see the thought process of the students there and what decisions they were making. Much of the tour was based around print making, screen printing; photography and  media which is what many of the students at LCC come to specialise in.
I was very impressed with the facilities of the university as I had never seen such a variety of machinery, tools, materials and other equipment all in one place before; it made me realise how personalised each course is and how much option you have in university to create exactly what you want without being limited by budgets and facilities; to me it felt like that next big stepping stone to reaching our ideal career.
I felt that something I noticed when on the tour was the way in which the students worked; I saw that most of the students were working on their own without fellow colleagues or teachers, although doing a BTEC myself I am used to doing a lot of self taught work and self developing work, I felt that the atmosphere in the university was even more so sophisticated.

We later visited the LCC university again a few weeks later to attend to their open day where they displayed work from the students around the building. I felt inspired seeing their work as it was such a high standard and quality, I especially enjoyed looking at the photography and the sculpture as they are what I am very interested in. However I did made me realise the big difference in BTEC level work and degree level work which I think was quite a reality check.

I had previously visited the LCC university a few years ago by myself in which I sat in on a lecture given by the head of the university about the courses that they run there, at the time I felt that university was along way off so I didn't connect to it as much as I have done now, which to me showed how far I have come in those few years.
From visiting LCC it made me look at what other universities are out there and what they offer, I very much enjoyed my visit to LCC but I felt that I would prefer to look at universities in other areas. The first few universities that came to mind are Camberwell and Chelsea which are partners to Elephant and Castle university, Brighton, Westminster and Portsmouth.
I am yet to visit these universities but I am very enthusiastic about learning more about them and others.  LCC Elephant and Castle , LCC Camberwell , Portsmouth , Westminster , Brighton , LCC Chelsea