The University of Law's business school, De Broc, has closed its doors to students for at least a year just days before it was due to open.

In July, ULaw provost Andrea Nollent announced with great fanfare that De Broc would be opening its doors in September. Installed on ULaw's Bloomsbury campus, it was supposed to compete with BPP's business school. Glossy brochures advertised undergraduate degrees in business & management, business & finance, business & marketing and business & business (with business studies). Although three months didn't seem long to find students for the courses, Nollent told The Lawyer, "We are confident that students will be attracted to us even at this late stage and we will build on numbers next year".

Or not. A source told RollOnFriday the school had "no students". When RoF hurried to enrol after putting off applying all summer, it was informed that applications were not being accepted for 2015, and that we should try again in September 2016.

A ULaw spokeswoman told RollOnFriday, “As part of ULaw’s unequivocal commitment to uphold the very highest standards of academic quality and student experience, the first cohort for De Broc will run when a viable mix of students, with the correct level of attainment, has been achieved”. Interested parties should be aware that the 'correct level of attainment' means at least 3Cs at A-Level and 'viable mix' means more than none.

    The new De Broc business exam

De Broc was launched mere weeks after new owner Aaron Etingen bought ULaw this summer. Credit where credit's due, he's certainly enthusiastic. And despite its travails, ULaw has not had the worst week of the legal education providers by a long shot: as revealed by RollOnFriday, Kaplan Law School has only gone and collapsed.
 
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Comments

Anonymous 29 August 15 07:59

Never one to let the truth get in the way of a good story are you ROF? Their business school was due to take its first students from the 28th September. How is that a week from now? If you actually were to check the facts and report them in an even half-balanced manner, you could also have reported that BPP's business school took time to become established and suffered its own fair share of cancellations as it built a student base including having flexible selection criteria - as is common when many universities begin new schools or courses. Oh and look, BPP still only require BCC to get on their business courses. But then, that would require a bit of effort and fairness wouldn't it.

Anonymous 29 August 15 09:39

Hah hah hah! Chip sale!

'How dare you say that it's shutting down just days from opening when it's, err, shitting down just days from opening?'

'And how dare you not mention that a competitor only requires crap grades when, err, we require even crappier grades?'

Jokers.