Academic Dress
The University of London had established a rudimentary code for academic dress by 1844. The University was the first to devise a system of academic dress based on faculty colours, an innovation that was subsequently followed by most other universities.
Since their being granted autonomous degree awarding powers, the Institute of Education, King's College London, The London School of Economics and Political Science and University College London have each introduced their own form of academic dress. The remaining colleges of the University continue to use the University of London academic dress.
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