Fashion Retail Academy
The Fashion Retail Academy is a vocational training college in the Tottenham Court Road area of London, England.
It was founded as a National Skills Academy in 2005, with government funding and a contribution of £5 million or £12 million from Philip Green, chairman of the Arcadia Group. It opened in 2006 with about 200 students. It trains people to work in clothes retailing. Students spend approximately equal amounts of time studying in the classroom and gaining work experience on the shop-floor.
Fashion Retail Academy is classed as a "listed body" on the UK Government website, meaning that it cannot award degrees; students at a listed body may receive their degrees from a "recognised body", one authorised to award degrees. The academy has a partnership with Falmouth University. Diploma courses run from six months to two years, and degree courses are condensed across two years.
In April 2017, students from the college took part in the Future Retail Challenge at the World Retail Congress in Dubai.
