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Apollo completes BPP takeover

Today's article in THE announced that Apollo, an American for-profit higher education company has just completed its acquisition of BPP for £368 million.

BPP Law School and the College of Law are Britain's two biggest professional legal education providers.

In an article in this Sunday's Observer, the UK's relationship with private higher education is said to be on the rise.

With the Conservative Shadow Universities Minister, David Willetts, announcing that a Conservative government would encourage competition from private institutions in higher education this may be only the first of many.

?There are American university chains that are looking to come to Britain and [there is] talk of mergers between British and American universities. India is looking at links. I think it?s ripe for these kinds of supply-side reforms,? Mr Willetts said.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).