Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts (LIPA)

LIPA has been dubbed both Paul McCartney's and Liverpool's "fame school" and in a way, this is a valid term but it is also an underestimation of the place. LIPA is built where the old Liverpool Institute was (and where Paul McCartney and George Harrison were pupils) and also occupies the art school where John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe studied. Some of the original features are still there in the LIPA building; the art school building is pretty much unchanged, other than it now houses dance studios for LIPA's dance students. There's a range of adult degree and diploma programmes available, such as Sound Technology, Theatre Design and Technology, ...  Read the complete review