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Our Teaching
Our teaching is delivered by a team of experienced, highly qualified and enthusiastic academics. Our dedicated Personal Academic Advisers support undergraduate students throughout their study. In addition to lectures, tutorials and practicals, subject specialised support is provided to students via virtual and face to face help sessions. We place great emphasis in responding to student feedback. Our student satisfaction ratings in Mathematics for example are among the highest in the UK.
The quality of our teaching is assessed through the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), who work with higher education institutions to define academic standards and quality, and then carry out reviews against these standards. In our most recent Institutional Audit the QAA concluded that they had 'broad confidence', the highest level of commendation, in the soundness of the University's current and likely future management of the quality of its academic programmes and the academic standards of its awards.
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Our Facilities
The Faculty of Computing at London Met has a broad range of facilities that support students on all its courses:
- Cisco labs - some of the most advanced in London, where students can configure switches and routers to create their own internet
- Animation lab - including light boxes, tablets, iMacs and PCs
- GameLab Studio - including programmable games machines connected to the PCs - Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox
- Microwave, fibre optic and satellite labs - London Met has facilities to support research and development, as well as excellent teaching, in electronics and communications
- Mobile applications lab - PCs dedicated to software that allows students to build apps for multi-platform smartphones
- Specialised Mathematics Software supporting applications from statistics to electronics simulation, data mining to equation-solving
- Computer Forensics and IT Security lab - 40 work stations on a separate network to allow for experiments on everything from viruses to botnet attacks
- Microprocessor lab - up-to-date facilities to create embedded systems, specialised devices, robots and data capture, where students can design-and-build circuit boards.
In total the Faculty has 25 labs supported by its own team of technicians and by London Met's Information Services Department. The learning centre, and many open access university labs are also nearby, offering literally hundreds of workstations, and speciality learning environments for more general purpose requirements such as browsing, report writing, group work and research support.
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Employability
Employability skills development is at the heart of our curriculum and teaching.
Recognising the challenges that students and graduates face in the competitive jobs market - the Faculty of Computing embeds key professional skills training across it's degree portfolio and in addition has developed a number of unique work-related initiatives that offer real and relevant opportunities to enhance your career prospects.
SEW - Student Enterprise Workshops: monthly networking and workshop based meetings that engage some of the industry’s top technologists, developers and business leaders in sharing their experience, skills requirements and inside knowledge of the IT and Computing sector.
Inspiring, challenging and informative - these workshops are invaluable in helping you attain first-hand knowledge of what it is really like in the workplace.
The WOW Agency: this unique initiative offers fantastic opportunities to work on real projects, with real clients, for real money!
WOW places students and graduates into real client-driven projects at low-cost to business with the following benefits: real project experience for your CV, employability skills development, 'earn while you learn', experience working with some of the most innovative clients on exciting new projects.
WOW works with start-ups, SME's, Social Enterprise and large organizations - all of whom recognize the value of tapping into the breakthrough-thinking and fresh creativity of our students.
Industrial Liaison Group: we have teamed up with some of the leading UK IT-related business leaders and technologists to form our Faculty Of Computing Industrial Liaison Group (ILG).
The ILG allows us to engage with industry leaders and innovators - to work closely with them in defining and driving our skills delivery - both technical and professional.
These partnerships are vital to our curriculum development and ensure that we empower you throughout your study programme, with all the necessary skills that industry demands.
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"After I did my A levels, I wanted to choose a University that actually cares about their students. After visiting London Met and speaking to the staff and past students, I discovered what a good University it was, so I applied through UCAS and put it down as my first choice" Ali Ziaaddini - BSc Computer Science & MSc Computing |
| "The technologies being taught are up-to-date and relevant for this ever-changing IT industry and what I have learnt so far has really enhanced the work that I do as a Software and Solutions Developer" Ayoola Marshall - MSc Computing |
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"The high standard of the IT facilities and the wide range of modules have impressed me, and as the CISCO Network Academy Program is integrated into my course, I am on my way to professional certification!" Chaka Gordon -
BSc Computer Networking
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"My time here was simply wonderful, as I enjoyed the unique combination of challenging academic work done in a relaxed and persuasive environment." Olutope Omogbenigun - MSc Digital Communications Networks
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"The thought of moving to a new city was a bit daunting, but once I got here in September, my nerves disappeared almost instantly. All the staff and students were welcoming, and the course was so well planned and interesting that I felt at ease straight away. The computer suites are well equipped, the staff are brilliant, and the social scene isn't bad either!" Andrea Stratton - BSc Computer Animation |
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" Graduates with numerical skills are much in demand in today's business context!
...The programme is designed with a good theoretical balance in mathematics and statistics along with their relevant practical applications. The low student per class ratio especially in the tutorials personally gives me a sense of a relaxed atmosphere and personalised teaching." Marco Mesa Frias - BSc Financial Mathematics
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