It is all very well doing parodies with Muttley Dastardly LLP to make a point on topical legal issues ( and there are quite a few more MD LLP episodes coming ) but I feel the time has come, having watched from the sidelines for a couple of years, to shine a very bright light onto legal education in England & Wales.
I shall be starting with a podcast tomorrow with Professor Richard Moorehead of Cardiff University. I plan to do five podcasts with leading figures in legal education. They will be direct and to the point – hopefully.
We shall be discussing, inter alia:
1. Where are the problems in legal education and training?
2. Is the law degree fit for purpose?
3. Should the professions intervene to improve the law degree? [this will be about the Brown review’s effects]
4. The importance of research-based teaching. Why should practitioners care about that?
In the meantime…this from RollonFriday….
BPP parent company in $200m write-off shock
Apollo Group Inc., owners of BPP University College, have published their annual results. And they won’t be easy reading for lead balloon BPP, which faces an enormous balance sheet write-off.
The educational conglomerate’s 4th quarter and end year results include $176 million of “goodwill and intangible impairment charges“. The Lawyer reports that Apollo CFO Brian Schwartz told investors that BPP’s business had been “significantly and adversely impacted by the deep recession in the UK“. Of course that hasn’t stopped the esteemed law school opening up another three much-needed
factory farmsuniversity campuses. Sounds like the fees need to go up.A spokesman for Apollo told RollOnFriday that “BPP has been and will continue to be a critical centerpiece of Apollo Global’s expansion strategy. We continue to believe that it has significant potential both now and into the future“…..
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