The College of Law is establishing its first centre in Bristol, representing a £1.2m investment and creating 40 new jobs.
The new centre, which will serve the whole of the South West region, will be its eighth in the UK and consolidates the College’s position as the country’s leading provider of postgraduate professional legal education.
Planned for a city centre location, the Bristol College will be accepting students from September 2010. It follows a hugely successful investment in Manchester, where a College is due to open from September 2009.
Bristol was chosen not only as a significant centre for law firm activity but because is also fast becoming a hub for the growth of the legal services market, which is likely to further grow once the new legal services legislation is implemented.
Said Nigel Savage, Chief Executive of The College of Law: "This centre will deliver the same standards of learning and development for which the College is internationally renowned and is in response to growing demand in the region for world class learning and development in the legal services sector.
"We have been monitoring the South West and Bristol in particular over the last few years. There is currently no provider in the city to serve the immediate needs of the firms or individual students. Regionalisation has been a significant aspect of our strategy in recent years not least because it enables firms with multiple centres to develop a strategic approach to their recruitment, learning and development outside of a single region.
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