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King's has needed new graduation gowns since 2007, when it acquired the power to award its own degrees, rather than give out ones from the University of London.
It has had the power to award its own degrees, up to and including Masters, since 1997.
Like awarding its own degrees, gaining university status is crucial to the school's plans for expansion.
For the next few years, until a law changes to allow the college to issue its own degrees, students will actually graduate from a University of London college.
University college, in British and formerly British educational systems, an institution of higher learning that does not have the authority to award its own degrees.
At first the new college would have to prepare its students for the examinations of other bodies but, because the needs of its students would differ from those of internal university students, the college would need eventually to award its own degrees, diplomas, and qualifications.
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It hopes to get its own degree-awarding powers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the future.
New entrants are trying to get in on the act: Pearson, an educational publisher which owns 50% of The Economist, announced this week that it plans to offer its own degree course, accredited by Royal Holloway, part of the University of London.Private universities already recruit many students from abroad: at Buckingham, most are non-British.
Its degrees are validated by the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, but it is aiming for university college status and its own degree-awarding powers.
The CDD doesn't have its own degree-awarding powers, so degrees are validated by different universities.
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