Has anyone studied CI at Manchester or London Met?

Would you recommend these courses? What are your impressions? (...) The two universities above are never even discussed, recommended, given as examples, etc.

About London Met: http://interpreters.freeforums.org/post6361.html

About Leeds and other courses: http://interpreting.info/questions/1905/leeds-university-universite-de-mons/2081

I have the feeling that London Met is a promising course with a very involved, motivated and dynamic course leader. I don't know if students on this course have achieved the same results at EU & UN tests as those from Bath or Leeds. You should look into that.

I am going to Manchester this year. I didn´t find a great deal of information about it as it is a relatively new course. I will let people know as I find out! At the end of the course there is a placement, in either Brussels or Geneva. This is not guaranteed but has been done the past 2 years. They also give you work experience whenever possible during the course. The aptitude test consisted of a brief interview, 2 short speeches with summary and current affairs topics. The facilities looked very good. I have studied in both Herio-Watt and ISIT Paris, and the interpreting labs looked similar to HEriot-Watt's.

The university of Heriot-Watt was very good, I did my undergraduate course there. The facilities are excellent and there are mini conferences every 2 weeks to allow students to practice. As with any course though, how much you progress depends on the hours you are willing to put in. I chose not to do postgrad there only because I wanted a change.

I only did 5 months at ISIT and only did translation and history/economics. The teachers were good but I found the facilities somewhat lacking, although again having brand new classrooms doesn´t mean a school is good! In general the students seemed to be of very high quality, which is the main thing.