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Insights: apply

Black and white collage with a blue and magenta background featuring two students creating a piece of work 'on the body'.
Black and white collage with a blue and magenta background featuring two students creating a piece of work 'on the body'.
Insights Autumn-Winter Schools banner 2024, designed by Bond & Coyne featuring photography by Thai Mahendrakumar.

Find out how your interests and identity can be the force behind your creative expression, future study and career.

Take part

Come to our Colleges for creative activities and pre-university advice:

  • make work across art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts
  • experiment with a variety of traditional and innovative equipment or techniques
  • get honest advice from our students and graduates; find out about their creative journeys
  • discover how different each of our College campuses are and what they could offer you.

Activities are free to attend, materials and refreshments are provided.

Please check our eligibility criteria below before applying.

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Students work together to produce a portrait of another student in the professional photography studios. The photograph picks up blue and magenta light in the room.
Insights photography workshop, London College of Communication, 2024 | Photograph Aleks Faustov.

Aged 16 years+?

Join our Spring, Summer and Autumn-Winter Schools.

Build your portfolio, get advice on applying and preparing for interviews at UAL.

Read our guide to what's on across the year (PDF 1.7MB).

Apply below.

3 students stand together talking in their vibrantly printed garments that they made at the Saturday Club
Urban Garden project, Insights Saturday Club, 2024. Photograph: Aleks Faustov.

Aged 13-16 years?

Join our Saturday Clubs.

Choose from 4 subject area clubs. Work towards an exhibition of your creativity at Somerset House.

Find out more about our Saturday Clubs.

Eligibility criteria

All applicants must:

Be 16+ years and studying A Levels and Level 3 Diplomas at a UAL Outreach partner school or college in Greater London

In addition, meet 1 or more of the following criteria to apply:

  • have no parent(s) or guardian(s) that have completed a university degree
  • live in a priority postcode area (using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), areas in deciles 1 to 4)
  • live in a household that receives benefits for living costs (including Universal Credit, Child Tax Credit, Free School Meals, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Income-based Job Seekers Allowance and Pupil Premium)
  • have care experience.

Students on the UAL Foundation programme are not eligible but are supported by UAL's Academic Support Teams.

We also recognise that there are other courses, clubs and life experiences that provide excellent equivalent experience outside of schools and colleges and will consider applicants from these backgrounds on a case-by-case basis.

Get in touch

Contact us for any questions about the criteria or other circumstances we should consider.

Our downloadable documents may not be fully accessible. If you need content in an alternative format, please get in touch by email: outreach@arts.ac.uk

Apply now for Autumn- Winter Schools

Are you a 2nd year Level 3 Diploma or A Level student who's considering applying to university?

At this stage in your education, there are 2 levels you should consider for further study – a foundation course or an undergraduate degree at one of our Colleges. We've designed our autumn-winter schools workshops to reflect this.

Workshops start in early November with some information and advice evenings in October.

Download our application guide (7.7MB) to find out what's on offer and help you make your choice.

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    Featured collage image, photograph from UAL Insights workshop, Jerry Florez.

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    Featured collage, still from from video produced by Dalia Dawood. 2019.

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UAL Insights privacy notice

This notice sets out how UAL’s Outreach programme, UAL Insights, uses your personal information. Your information is collected when you register for one our programmes using our online forms.

University of the Arts London (UAL) will process the information you provide on this form and personal data collected or created as part of our relationship with you.

We will also process your health or other sensitive data under GDPR 9(2)(a) ‘explicit consent of the data subject’ (you, the student), where you wish to tell us of special requirements.