Talk:London Interdisciplinary School

Not a University

London Interdisciplinary School fails to satisfy the definition of university in the UK (the legal definition requires at least thousands of full time students).--LondonInterdisciplinaryRubbish (talk) 10:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

This is wrong on two counts.

1. The only legal definition of a university in the UK pertains to the use of the word "University" in its official name. This is decided by the Privy Council under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, and does not relate to the numbers of full time students.
2. The legal definition is not relevant if we're referring to an institution, of any name, as university (small "u"). For that we just need to follow the generally accepted definition, which you can find at the top of our University article - "an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines".

WaggersTALK 11:03, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

The only number criteria for eligibility for university status in England are that the number of HE student FTEs exceeds 55% of the total student FTEs and that 50% or more of the HE students FTEs must be on courses at level 6 or higher on the FHEQ (see [1]). Besides that, the actual definition is that an institution has been awarded university title by the OfS, not whether it meets some eligibility criteria in the opinion of Wikipedia editors.

However, it is well established that there's no need for an institution to officially hold university status for us to use the word 'university' in reference to an institution that would commonly be referred to as a university in English, see, for example, talk:Sciences Po/Archive 1#Sciences Po: a university?, and the member institutions of the University of London that only formally became universities in the last couple of years. The question isn't "is this institution legally a university", it's "is this institution commonly referred to as a university in reliable independent sources". The answer for LIS is that it is clearly referred to as a university in such sources, so we do this here, noting in the article that it is not legally a university. Robminchin (talk) 15:21, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Promotional Tone

This article contains text that is written in a promotional tone. Bdnor appears to be a staff member or someone who is associated with this school as this user keeps writing something with promotional tone to promote this school. It seems to violate Wikipedia rules. --Sworeguppy (talk) 16:15, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

It would be good to identify which specific text you feel is in a promotional tone so it can be discussed here. A generic statement that it exists is unlikely to lead to any action. Robminchin (talk) 19:34, 18 August 2024 (UTC)