Anyone know anything about London Interdisciplinary School?

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Hard to find more than just their marketing buff so wondering if anyone has any direct knowledge or experience of their degree offer?

I think only one cohort will have graduated, so there's not much historical data on results. It markets itself on being different and new, but other than that I can't work out much about it either? If your kid is interested I guess they should speak to current students.

A little while back a mum was on here because her DD was entranced by
the place. They talked a good game. However IIRC very few staff had PhDs and the curriculum was ‘innovative’ with pissibly some exciting aspects but not necessarily well thought through. Also it was extremely heavy on group work.

My impression was that it was being run on a shoestring. I had concerns about a ademic rigour, viability and financial sustainability. But then I am in STEM and I like data, which were rather lacking in what I was able to find

I remember the previous poster that @poetryandwine mentioned. PP said that LIS told her that her DC would receive a bursary but nothing was formally offered. So be careful with open day promises.

If your DC is interested in a interdisplinary degree look at the offerings of other unis too. Three years ago, my DD and her friends did a couple of courses Edinburgh were trialling for their interdisplinary futures undergraduate degree. I think the degree started the year after. Teaching staff were very well qualified. I would imagine other big unis have similar.

Thanks all. I saw that previous thread too. It’s remarkably difficult to find anything other than what LIS has put out in their marketing material. It looks like it ran at a significant loss last year though a French business school has put money in. I’m worried it may struggle to survive financially.
I have a ND child who thinks it will be the answer to their dreams but takes everything at face value and won’t consider the downsides.

You're right @poetryandwine there’s no data. I know that’s partly because it’s so new but still.

There is a section for it over on TSR, including an 'AMA' with a second year student
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1540

Thanks, @MarchingFrogs

I looked at several threads on LIS at TSR. None very substantive.

On the positive side, it appears that LIS offer good support helping students find internships and a student listed a nice selection of jobs that at least some get. However no quantitative sense was given - are these the lucky few, or the norm?

The same student did an AMA and gave an example of how students were introduced to data analysis in a manner that seemed essentially meaningless to me. Lovely to choose your own topic which was his (?) focus, but there was no sense of how much learning was accomplished within the module, which was a group project

Iirc the guy who set it up came from running the BASc Arts and Sciences programme at UCL - well-established and might be worth a look?