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CoL boosts legal course fees by up to 5 per cent

19 January 2012 | By Laura Manning

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The College of Law (CoL) has hiked its Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) fees by almost £800, up to £16,140 for London students starting September 2012.

The law school giant has increased fees across its bulging portfolio by an average of five per cent in London and three per cent in the regions, raising its Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) fees up by a maximum of £13,180 and £9,310 respectively. Currently the fees in London are £12,550 and £8,870.

However BPP Law School (BPP) remains the most expensive professional legal course provider, after upping its BPTC and LPC fees to £16,540 and £13,550 respectively in London for the next academic year (30 November 2011).

BPP also boosted its GDL fees by £450, up from £8,950 to £9,400.

Kaplan Law School also announced fee rises. Its LPC will cost £12,850 and its BPTC fee will be £15,800 for 2012 starters.

Meanwhile, City Law School, which charges £12,250 and £16,000 for the LPC and BPTC respectively, will announce 2012-13 figures early next year.

The news follows the publication of the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) Bar Barometer yesterday (18 January), which revealed a further drop in pupillage numbers by three per cent. (18 January 2011).

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  • Anonymous | 21-Jan-2012 9:54 pm

    i believe this is a wake up call for caibbean students to now consider alternatives. It is painful though because I absolutely lovE The UK and planned to enrol but may need to rethink

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  • Pevil superevil | 25-Jan-2012 10:53 am

    This, in my opinion, is the saddest part of british legal education. Why do the bodies such as SRA and BSB do not take counter meassures against this monopolistic position? What is the justification for the increase of tuition fees that are not related to governmental funding? It saddens me to see that the Bar, which I think is a very inspirational and desirable place to work, is being downgraded simply by allowing a defacto monopoly of legal education. How the hell am I supposed to pay back the loan that I will most likely have to get from a bank with the prospect of not even getting a pupilage (and even if you get a pupilage you are by no means out of trouble). There is something fundamentally wrong with the way that legal education in England and Wales is carried out because it is a moneymaker for a few people that otherwise would not have any relationship to the Bar whatsoever. The legal profession should force the provider to donate 1/3 of the tuition fees towards the scholarship funds of the Inns/SRA to support the development of the bar.

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