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National law school heads to the region

A NATIONAL law school is set to open a new branch in Newcastle having laid down plans for expansion throughout the UK.

BPP Law School, a UK provider of professional legal education, will open new branches in Newcastle Cambridge and Liverpool next year.

The sites will deliver the legal practice course (LPC), which will be taught both full and part time.

They will also provide distance learning support classes for the graduate diploma in law (GDL).

The branches, which will be based at existing study centres used by BPP’s other professional services educational divisions, are still subject to validation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Currently, BPP Law School has six branches, having opened up in Birmingham and Bristol this year.

The three new centres would take the leading law school up to a total of nine branches, one more than the College of Law.

Each new BPP centre is expected to initially have between 40-60 LPC places.

Over the summer BPP College of Professional Studies, under whose umbrella BPP Law School sits, was granted ‘university college’ status, creating the first private sector university college for more than 30 years.

However, the law school’s name will remain the same and no changes will be made to the way it operates.

The granting of the university college title marked the first time a private institution has been awarded the status since Buckingham University College - now the University of Buckingham - was created in 1976.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .