The Guardian understands that London Met, which sponsors the students and issues degrees on behalf of the film school, also has hundreds of international students who are unable to get home due to lengthy delays at the Border Agency, despite being promised a fast-track service.
Very few re-issue degree certificates to trans students once they've changed their names, or have made an effort to make gender neutral toilets and changing facilities available".
"They set up an organisation to issue degrees to people of sufficient merit to put them into the war effort; the same thing happened with my PhD," said Margerison.
Ryerson Polytechnic University, which began as a community college in 1948, has been issuing degrees since 1971 and is known as a sure-fire route to full-time jobs for graduates in applied computer science and image arts, journalism, radio, TV and, yes, even filmmaking.
In 1927 his department was officially renamed to "department of sociology", and in 1930 the department gained authorization to issue degrees in sociology.
Avoid "degree mills" that may seem easy but issue degrees worth little more than the paper they are printed on.
Accreditation means that an accrediting agency recognized by DOE has approved of the school's curriculum and authorized it to issue degrees.
