Questions over BPP's BVC deferral request
Too much of a good thing…? News that BPP had requested volunteers to leave its Bar Vocational Course (BVC) and take up places next year with a £2,000 incentive was widely reported in the legal media at the end of last week. It is understood that the move was made at the request of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) which oversees the limit on the number of students that providers are authorised to admit onto BVC courses. (This at a time …
Too much of a good thing…?
News that BPP had requested volunteers to leave its Bar Vocational Course (BVC) and take up places next year with a £2,000 incentive was widely reported in the legal media at the end of last week. It is understood that the move was made at the request of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) which oversees the limit on the number of students that providers are authorised to admit onto BVC courses.
(This at a time where sensitivity about the balance between access to the profession and the number of students trying to enter it has hit a particular high.)
Although both BPP and the BSB issued statements, neither clarified why the request had actually been made by the BSB – and they did not suggest that BPP had deliberately oversubscribed its course in the name of profit. Charon QC has delved into the matter further to try and get to the bottom of it, click here for his assessment.
All aboard the BPP Bar Vocational Course train… plenty of room…. [Charon QC]
BPP appeals for Bar students to defer two weeks into course [Legal Week]
BPP asks BVC students to defer [The Lawyer]
September 30, 2009
fishy fishy
September 30, 2009
I can see what Charon QC is getting at. It looks to me like no one want’s to really admit what is going on here. There is a business trying to make money on the one hand and a representative body that has to regulate on the other. No one wants to suggest that the legal profession has too many recruits because that’s just bad for business.