St Patrick's College, London

Not to be confused with St Patrick's College, Dublin or Saint Patrick.
St Patrick's College

The building in New Court, central London
Established 1803
Type Private business school
Location Holborn, London, England
51°31′04″N 0°06′39″W / 51.5179°N 0.1108°WCoordinates: 51°31′04″N 0°06′39″W / 51.5179°N 0.1108°W
Campus
Website www.st-patricks.ac.uk

St Patrick's College is a private for-profit[1] business school based in London, United Kingdom.[2] St Patrick's offers Higher National Diploma programmes in management, finance, Health and Social Care and Hospitality.

St Patrick's is based in Holborn, with two campuses in the City and at Stratfordcentral London. In addition the school has campuses in Manchester and Birmingham, United Kingdom.[3]

History

St Patrick's College began as a school in 1803 for the poor of St Giles' Parish with the backing of St Patrick's Church. After the Catholic Primary School closed, the Catholic Church continued to run St Patrick's as a Language School teaching English. In 1998 it changed hands and the College soon started to teach diplomas and degrees at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in Law, Business, Hospitality, Computing and Health & Social Care.

By 2013, following a change on government policy designed to widen access to higher education by allowing student loans for private colleges, the demand for places soared so much that it moved from Soho to Holborn.[4][5] St. Patrick's has a new campus with extensive facilities in Stratford [6] In 2013 the government suspended the college's, along with 22 other colleges, designation for receiving student loan funding after an £80 million overspend on student loans at private providers.[7]

On 26 February 2015 the college was subject to a critical BBC Face the Facts radio programme, which aired allegations that the college offered a poor learning environment with large classes and over-crowding.[8]

Campuses and locations

St Patrick's is based in Central London. In the United Kingdom it has offices in soho and Stratford, London, Manchester and Birmingham.[9][10]

Ownership

St Patrick's and LSBF work together in an alliance cooperation called The Central London Campus Alliance (CLCA). The CLCA schools share resources, best-practice, recruitment channels and other core functions. Being based in central London they benefit from an open and ‘friendly alliance’ but remain distinct and separate legal entities]].[11]

Programmes

St Patrick's offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including Higher National Diplomas and Advanced Professional Diploma in Art and Design, Technology, Law, Business Management, Health and Social Care and Tourism and Hospitality.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Business, Innovation and Skills Committee - Twelfth Report: Government reform of Higher Education". London: UK House of Commons Select Committee (Business, Innovation and Skills Committee). 1 November 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Martin (7 October 2010). "Private schools take on the public providers". London: The Independent. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.st-patricks.ac.uk/contact-us
  4. ↑ "Our History". St Patrick’s. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  5. ↑ John Morgan (29 January 2015). "St Patrick's College students top private loans bill". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.st-patricks.ac.uk/contact-us
  7. ↑ John Morgan (29 November 2013). "Private colleges suspended from student loan access". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  8. ↑ John Waite (26 February 2015). Inside St Patrick's. Face the Facts (BBC Radio 4). Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Locations". St Patrick’s. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  10. ↑ http://www.st-patricks.ac.uk/contact-us
  11. ↑ "New partner for LSBF". EducationInvestor. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "Home". St Patrick’s. Retrieved 11 July 2013.

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