London Interdisciplinary School
undergraduate university in London, England
The London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) is a private university in Whitechapel, London.
LIS was founded in 2017 and was the first new institution in the United Kingdom since the 1960s to hold degree-awarding powers from its opening.
The school offers undergraduate and postgraduate taught degrees, as well as professional courses. LIS admitted its first cohort of undergraduate students in 2021, and accepted its first cohort of master's students in 2022.
History
LIS was co-founded by a handful of educationalists and entrepreneurs in 2017. These included CEO Ed Fidoe, previously a manager at McKinsey & Company until leaving to co-found School 21 (a London-based primary and secondary school that focuses on disadvantaged students and emphasises multi-disciplinary education and communication skills) in 2012; company chair Christopher Persson, an entrepreneur who co-founded the online restaurant reservation service Bookatable; and academic lead Carl Gombrich, previously a professor of Interdisciplinary Education at University College London where he created its Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree.
LIS was registered at Companies House in 2017. An order by the Office for Students, the UK's regulator of higher education, in 2020 gave LIS the power to award the specific taught degree of BASc (Hons) in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods from 27 September 2021 to 31 December 2024. This regulatory approval also allowed students to pay fees using the national student loan scheme. An amendment to this order in 2022 added the power to award Master of Arts and Science (MASc) degrees in Interdisciplinary Practice, and a further amendment in 2023 added the MASc in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods.
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