The school, together with
The decision means the school will offer both the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Bar Vocational Course (BVC) as optional masters degrees, with students able to take additional modules to win the degree. The Graduate Diploma in Law will be offered as an honours degree in law (LLB).
Rival provider the College of Law awarded its first batch of degrees earlier this month after winning degree awarding status in May last year.
Peter Crisp, chief executive of
“They will be optional but I would expect most students would want to do this.”
BPP has around 5,000 full and part-time students and outperformed the rest of the BPP training group for the first half of 2007, with profits up nearly 50% against a 17% hike in turnover.
It also retained its status as exclusive provider to the City LPC consortium comprising Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May.
