Podcast 25: Nigel Savage, CEO, College of Law on the new degree awarding powers given to The College of Law and BPP…

Today, in the wake of the news that BPP Law School has been given degree awarding powers, I talk to Nigel Savage, CEO, College of Law about this news and about The College of Law’s own degree awarding powers and their first crop of new graduates.
As ever, Nigel Savage has robust and thought provoking [...]

Legal Education on the move…

Well… things are heating up. The Financial Times today covers the story about BPP being given degree awarding powers.
“Using language that is likely to outrage some academics in more conventional universities, he added: “We don’t have the baggage of traditional research, so we’re more focused on customer service.”
I have invited Nigel Savage and [...]

A new era in legal education?…

I repeat here, a post on the new Consilio Editorial Blog.
The Times reports: “BPP, the professional qualifications college, has become Britain’s first profit-making body to gain the right to award degrees. It will charge undergraduates course fees of up to £10,000 per year — significantly more than the fees paid by students at all universities [...]