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- 4 May 2018
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The Royal College of Art is delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is to take on the role of Royal Visitor with immediate effect.
Key details
Date
- 4 May 2018
Read time
- 1 minute
Dr Paul Thompson, Vice-Chancellor of the RCA said: “It’s a great honour for us to have The Prince of Wales as Royal Visitor. His Royal Highness has worked for decades through various charities on providing skills, training, and educational opportunities for young people. His support of drawing - particularly through the Royal Drawing School, making, and craft, align perfectly with the RCA’s mission to promote ‘thinking through making’ and the power of studio-based learning and experimentation.”
The Prince of Wales succeeds His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh who was Royal Visitor for 50 years from 1967, the year the Royal Charter was granted by Her Majesty The Queen, until 2017.
Recently acknowledged as the number one university for art and design in the world for the fourth year running (QS World University Rankings), this announcement comes at a time of exciting growth and development for the RCA.
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About the RCA
Engaging in teaching and research, the Royal College of Art was recently named the world’s leading university of art and design in the prestigious QS World University Subject Rankings 2018 for the fourth consecutive year. It offers the degrees of MA, MRes, MPhil and PhD across the disciplines of applied art, architecture, fine art, design, communications and humanities.
It offers 28 highly specialised programmes in Art & Design to over 2,000 Master’s and Doctoral students and more than 800 professionals interacting with them – including researchers, professors, art and design practitioners, along with advisers and distinguished visitors.
The RCA’s London-based campus is spread across three sites - Kensington, White City and Battersea - where the ceramics and glass studios are based. The College recently received planning approval for a new flagship building at its Battersea campus which will enable it to continue to compete globally and attract the highest calibre students and future entrepreneurs.
The new building is part of a £108m investment programme in the RCA – the most radical transformation in its 181-year history. The RCA is the world’s leading art and design university and prides itself on being a dynamic STEAM-focused postgraduate university (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics).