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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nicktim" data-source="post: 76292" data-attributes="member: 6132">Hi,I'm just finishing the PGDL at BPP now, studied full-time since September. Quality of teaching - the teaching has been one of the few positives of studying at BPP. The tutors are very knowledgeable and all ex-solicitors in their fields with lots of experience. They are really friendly and approachable and make the classes really interesting. HOWEVER, I am being sponsored by a firm who are part of the 'City Consortium' which is a group of firms who work quite closely with BPP so the cynic in me believes they tend to give some of the best tutors to the groups of students being sponsored by firms that are commercially important to BPP. I've heard from others who aren't being sponsored that they haven't had the same experience with the quality of teaching but I can only really comment on the teaching I've had which has been excellent.Fairness of the exams - I'm not really too clued up on this but as far as I'm aware this is regulated by the SRA so I don't think there is likely to be a significant difference between the two institutions in terms of difficulty or fairness. I haven't found the exams at BPP particularly challenging if you keep on top of the huge volumes of material and revise before them. We were the first cohort of students on the new format 'PGDL' which I believe is slightly different to the old GDL in that the assessments are practical (advising fictitious clients/colleagues on legal issues) but the pass rate seems fairly high from what I've heard.Access to course materials - Not great! Possibly impacted by COVID but we were told that we would get textbooks and hard copies of the material but then at the last minute BPP decided there would be no hard copy materials for the PGDL and everything would be online. Great for the environment and for BPP's costs but the volume of material is pretty heavy and it can be quite difficult accessing absolutely everything online. There are also quite a few mistakes on BPP's online material which you can report but it rarely gets changed. Sometimes in a class you can be trying to flick between the virtual classroom, the class materials and all of your notes as well as online textbooks on one small screen. I've had to invest in a bigger laptop, a second screen and bought my own versions of some of the textbooks etc. If you aren't being sponsored and you've already paid a pretty hefty amount to study the course I imagine it would be pretty annoying!In summary - quality of teaching has been excellent (but I've heard that varies if you are/aren't being sponsored and which centre you're at), overall organisation and access to course materials has been pretty poor. It's unclear how much of that can be attributed to COVID, first year of a new style course or just general incompetence.</blockquote>

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