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Series of images featuring student work including portrait painting, jewellery, styling photoshoot, print making and at work in the photiography studio
Series of images featuring student work including portrait painting, jewellery, styling photoshoot, print making and at work in the photiography studio
Insights Summer Schools 2025, UAL | Video stills: Ishavishali Chandrakumar, Aleks Faust and Thanseela Abul Kabeer, Thai Madendrakumar

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

For students aged 16 + years

Come to our Colleges for free creative activities and pre-university advice and guidance. Join our:

  • Spring Schools (March/April)
  • Summer Schools (June/July)
  • Autumn-Winter Schools (October–February)

Experience Insights

Each Summer School year is different! Head to @ual_insights  for videos that introduce you to the activities and projects we do.

Explore @ual_insights Linktree for news and resources.

A series of images featuring close up of screen printing, a group of students laughing and waving at camera and a student in photoshoot looking at the camera with petals on their face.
Insights Summer School activities 2025, UAL | Video stills: Ishavishali Chandrakumar, Aleks Faust and Thanseela Abul Kabeer

Who can take part? Our eligibility criteria

All applicants must be:


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

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

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

We'll consider your application if you meet 1 or more of following criteria:

  • you are currently in or have been in care
  • you live in a priority postcode area (using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), areas in deciles 1 to 4)
  • you 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.
  • have no parent or guardian that has completed a university degree.

Insights Summer Schools applications are now open

Are you a year 1 level 3 diploma student or A level student living in London or attending a partner school or college?

When you apply please provide accurate information about your eligibility. If you don't it may effect your application to Insights and UAL.

Choose 1 College option:

*Details are subject to change.

Camberwell, Chelsea College of Arts: Monday 13–Thursday 16 July

Time: 10.30am–4.30pm

Location: Chelsea College of Arts SW1P 4JU

Pathways:

  • product, furniture, interior and spatial design
  • fine art
  • graphic design and iIllustration.

Apply for Camberwell and Chelsea College of Arts Summer School

Central Saint Martins: Monday 6–Friday 10 July

Time: 10.30am–4.30pm

Location: King's Cross N1C 4AA

Pathways:

  • architecture
  • fashion design, textile and jewellery design
  • fine art practice
  • graphic design and fashion communication
  • product design and ceramic design.

Apply for Central Saint Martins Summer School

London College of Communication: Monday 6–Friday 10 July

Time: 10.30am–4.30pm

Location: Elephant and Castle SE1 6SB

Pathways:

  • digital animation and games art
  • graphic design and illustration
  • filmmaking
  • photography and moving image
  • music production

Apply for London College of Communication Summer School

London College of Fashion: Monday 29 June–Friday 3 July

Time:10.30am–4.30pm

Location: Stratford E20 2AR

Pathways:

  • fashion design and textiles (including costume)
  • fashion business including buying, management, marketing and visual merchandising
  • fashion media and communications including photography, styling, creative direction, journalism and public relations.

Apply for London College of Fashion Summer School

Wimbledon College of Arts: Monday 6–Thursday 9 July

Time:10.30am–4.30pm

Location: Wimbledon SW19 3QA

Pathways:

Monday 6-Tuesday 7 July

  • acting and performance

Monday 6-Thursday 9 July

  • costume design, theatre design, art direction & technical arts

Apply for Wimbledon College of Arts Summer School

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.