Holborn College
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Kaplan Holborn College was a college of higher education in London, England, specialising in accounting, finance, law and business.
It was originally established as Holborn Law College in 1969 to prepare young lawyers from overseas for the
The best-known course, with the largest proportion nationwide of successful students, was the old-style English Bar Examination (also known as Bar Finals) for British Commonwealth and US exemptions-seeking Bar students (approx. 70% of the intake) as well as for UK Intending Non-Practitioners (approx. 30% of the cohort) until the exam was phased out in 2000. The loss of the well-subscribed part- and full-time courses deprived the college of a vital source of revenue. The College thereafter received no Bar Council validation to run the new, unified Practitioners' Bar Vocational Course (BVC), which required audio-recording studio-facilities for training in practical advocacy, conference and negotiation skills.
The school then moved to a site along the
In 2005 the college became part of
The college had a diverse mix of students from the UK and the rest of the world, in particular from Africa, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. There was no on-site accommodation provision for students under 18; most students stayed in two nearby hostels or with host families.[2] Three- and four-year undergraduate degrees last cost £5,995 per annum. Two-year degrees were charged at £9,000. In 2012 the Woolwich Road premises were acquired by Greenwich Council and turned into a primary school.[1] The college continued at Borough High Street. Kaplan Holborn College had received a commendable outcome from the QAA in June 2013.[3] However, in September 2015 Kaplan Holborn College closed its Borough High Street campus.[4]
The old school building at Woolwich Road is now used by Windrush Primary School. On the adjacent former playgrounds of this school new buildings were constructed for the short-lived Royal Greenwich University Technical College, which opened in 2013. In 2016 this became Royal Greenwich Trust School.
References
- ^ a b Saint & Guillery, The Survey of London vol. 48: Woolwich, p. 127. Yale, 2012 (online PDF, pp. 55–57).
- ^ Holborn College - Ofsted Reports, 16 November 2004.
- ^ Kaplan Holborn College June 2013 QAA Review
- ^ Kaplan to shut Borough High Street’s Holborn College on london-se1.co.uk, 30 April 2015.