The University of Law has been accused of trying to poach students from BPP.

After losing Clifford Chance's multi-million pound business a couple of weeks ago, ULaw appears to have resorted to touting for business by phoning up BPP students and begging them to swap horses.

Students offered places to study at the University of Law have said that after informing it that they had accepted a place with BPP instead, they were bombarded with emails and calls from ULaw staff trying to change their minds. One student claims he was offered the chance to win a £1000 scholarship if he made the switch.

    ULaw, changing students' minds yesterday

The ploy appears to have met with limited success. One student said, "To be honest, I just ignored the messages". Another said, "I have had at least three phone calls and countless emails", but confessed, "I have deleted the ones I have received so far".

BPP is not happy. A spokesman said, “The Central Applications Boards’ regulations against poaching students are clear, as indeed is the law against inducing breach of contract".

In a statement ULaw told RollOnFriday that when prospective students ask it to remove them from email and other communications "then we do so as quickly as possible", but that "From time to time delays can occur in updating systems”. And the dog ate its homework, and the money was only resting in its account.

Hopefully the University of Law will have more luck with its other cunning plan: apparently it's been handing out leaflets in Leeds city centre.
 
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Comments

Anonymous 19 September 14 13:56

Just about sums up Montague & the UOL the COL would never have crawled on its belly

Anonymous 19 September 14 20:53

The same happened to me last year, but it still hasn't stopped. I accepted a place with BPP on part time BPTC. U of Law sent continual emails along with repeat phone calls that I had to terminate when I realised they were sales people. They had sent a marketing survey asking why I hadn't chose them (part way through the survey) and I was frank and open, but the marketing push to get me to sign up for something continued.
I have already competed my first year of two years' part-time with BPP and UoL are still bombarding me with marketing and offers. I received 9 unwanted emails only last month (a year on), several pushing a loan with Metro Bank (who they seem to have teamed up with). Lots talking about scholarships. Do I take out a loan for up to £25k to get a chance of receiving a £1k scholarship that they keep boasting about?? I'm not sure? The marketing is certainly bold and demanding. A couple start with the line 'drop everything...'. I enquired with all the major BPTC providers and only UoL responded with an aggressive and long-running marketing push.

Anonymous 20 September 14 00:04

Take a excellent College sell it to Montague to to run it into the ground & its good name

Anonymous 20 September 14 06:30

The CoL / "University" is being run into the ground, cut away at as it falls. Too much to say "once fine beast " as although it was always a beast, never that fine, but given how it's now run it does make the previous way look like a sun-dappled past. F****d in five years is my prediction.

Anonymous 20 September 14 09:52

more redundancies the place looks like a s**t hole the pride has been taken away striped by a outsourced facilities company that are inept and devoid of a once beautiful place of grounds & buildings shame on you montague

Anonymous 21 September 14 19:32

Montagu have brought some right scary people into ULaw. None of them very good. Glad I don't work there now, left just before this all kicked off!

Anonymous 22 September 14 13:12

The U.O.L. have become the snakes belly of the legal teaching world how long until Guildford becomes expensive flats to bail Montague out of their debts

Anonymous 23 September 14 01:07

I personally attended the UoL last year. I have to say that the quality of teaching is abysmal, the way it is run is worse and it is an absolute rip off. I personally hope that it folds as the majority of the muppets running the place deserve to be made redundant. I switched over from BPP and couldnt find anything negative to say about the place. BPP is great. UoL should be avoided like the plague, no wonder they are resorting to such tactics.... I will treat myself to a magnum of moet when the place folds.

Anonymous 26 September 14 20:16

Haven't the UOL or Montague got the stomach or the balls to answer any of this ?