London School of Commerce, fully accredited by Accreditation Service for International Colleges (ASIC) a member of Education UK. LSC was amongst first hundred colleges in the UK to be granted the Highly Trusted Sponsor status for Tier 4 student visa by the UK Border Agency .[1] Founded in 1999 with the primary aim of providing cost-effective education leading to internationally recognized British degrees in Business Management and Information Technology. Students also have the opportunity to achieve their educational goals of Bachelor within two years.[citation needed]
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LSC hosts students from 130 nationalities, studying at the London Campus. The LSC Group of Colleges operates worldwide, with campuses in Malta, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur and Dhaka.
The LSC is accredited by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, Association of Independent Higher Education Providers (AIHEP) and the DFE.[2][3][4] LSC is also a member of Education UK – British Council, registered with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) on its Register of Education and Training Providers.[5]
The London School of Commerce (LSC) was founded in November 1999, with an initial group of 55 students. They studied postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Business and Computing in collaboration with Charles Sturt University, Australia.[6]
In 2007, with the widening portfolio of collaborations, another sub-division, the School of Business and Law (SBL) was formed, which conducts more specialised programs in Accounting and Business. The School of Business and Law is an Associate College of the University of Gloucestershire. Simultaneously the Group started expanding overseas, and opened two campuses; Westminster International College (WIC) in Kuala Lumpur and Asian Centre for Management and Information Technology (ACMIT) in Bangladesh.
Three new colleges were added in 2010–2011. A new division in Sri Lanka was validated on 1 December 2010, and officially opened on 1 February 2011 as the British School of Commerce.[7][8][9] Another campus in Belgrade, Serbia was validated on 8 December 2010, and officially opened on 8 February 2011.[10]
The LSC Group has formed[when?] a Charity Foundation known as COPTE (Combating Poverty Through Education). The Charity is registered in order to sponsor educational projects, primarily in developing countries. The COPTE's mission is to assist destitute children in their educational path, through direct and philanthropic grant giving in order that the poverty cycle may be broken. One of the projects to receive support from COPTE in 2009 was Maw Sevana Home for Boys, Colombo, Sri Lanka.[11]