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3 (vii) While most students will aim to achieve the full Masters qualification, all Masters courses offer the subsidiary awards of Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma (both available with Merit or with Distinction) for students unable to complete their full programme of study. The full list of awards and their requirements is as follows: Award Credits at level M Modules Required Masters 180 credits (Level 7) 6 modules + dissertation (60 credits) Postgraduate Diploma 120 credits (Level 7) 6 modules Postgraduate Certificate 60 credits (Level 7) 3 modules 1.4 Introduction to your Faculty The Faculty of Computing is in central London at London Metropolitan University's North Campus, situated in the Tower Building on Holloway Road. The Faculty provides an extensive variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. These range from electronic engineering, through networks, mathematics and statistics, a suite of computing and business systems courses, to animation, games and multimedia - about 30 courses in total. The Faculty is divided into four subject areas: Communications Technology, Computing, Mathematics and Multimedia. There are around 70 academic staff and over 1300 students in what is one of the largest faculties in the University. The Faculty pays equal importance to research and consultancy, teaching and continuing professional development. One of the Faculty's key aims is to increase its relevance to commerce and industry, eg by offering professional and short courses and through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. We place emphasis on professional integration by applying new technologies and approaches to our teaching and research. 1.5 Location and Faculty Facilities supporting the course A variety of specialist computer laboratories are available to students in the Tower Building at North Campus, Holloway Road and throughout the University. Workstations run varied software including Unix, Windows, networking software from CISCO, database software from Oracle and multimedia software. Other academic services, including the library facilities, are provided by the University centrally. General purpose computer laboratories, and wireless access for student laptops, are available in most university buildings. 1.6 Learning and Teaching on the Course The Faculty of Computing covers three of the Quality Assurance Agency Subject Areas: Computing, Electronic Engineering and Mathematics, and QAA assessments have been good, notably the quality review in Computing which took place in 2004 and the Institutional Audit of Electronic Engineering in 2005. More recently the Faculty has gained accreditation for its courses from the Institute of mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and, provisionally, from the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), subject to final approval. In 2010 the university gained broad confidence in its quality and standards from the QAA. In the 2011 National Student Survey overall student satisfaction with their course ranged from 80% in Communications Technology, and 88% in Computing up to 100% in Mathematics. 1.7 Research in your Faculty
4 Research in the Faculty of Computing is applied, relevant to industry and often carried out in collaboration with external partners. We have particular strengths in mathematics and statistics, communications technology, knowledge management, intelligent systems and media design for interaction. The Faculty included more than 30 research active staff in the UK Research Assessment Exercise (2008), resulting in half of our Computer Science and Informatics research being classified as internationally recognised or internationally excellent; and most of the Pure Mathematics and Statistics research being rated as internationally excellent or world class. In recent years, our research, development and knowledge transfer projects have attracted funding from, amongst others: European Union; Joint Information Systems Committee; Higher Education Academy; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; and British Broadcasting Corporation. Much of our work is carried out in conjunction with industry. We are proactive in forming external links and partnerships and in bringing contemporary research material into our degree programmes for the benefit of our students and their employability. Our research is carried out in the following research centres and groups: Centre for Communications Technology Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) Knowledge Management Research Centre (KMR) Laboratory of Applied Computer Science and Technology (LACOST) Statistics, Operational Research and Mathematics Research Centre (STORM) Students can use the Project Description Web Site to view projects and research topics offered by active research staff which they can apply to do for their final 60 credit project module.
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