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.
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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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.
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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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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.
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