St Patrick's College, London
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St Patrick's International College |
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| Type | For-profit private higher education college |
| Established | 1999 |
| Principal | Daniel Khan |
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Stratford, London, UK Coordinates: 51°32′32″N 0°00′09″W / 51.5423°N 0.00256°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Owner | Global University Systems |
| Website | st-patricks |
St Patrick's College (also known as St Patrick's International College) is a for-profit private higher education college based in the United Kingdom with its main campus located at Stratford in East London. The college offers Higher National Diploma and postgraduate programmes in art and design, technology, law, business management, health and social care, and tourism and hospitality. Although its roots trace back to a Catholic primary school founded in Soho in 1803, the college was established in its present form in 1999. Since 2013 it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate group Global University Systems.
St Patrick's College traces its roots to St. Patrick's School, part of a group of schools established in 1803 by St Patrick's Church for the education of poor children in the Soho area of London. The school operated at 24 Great Chapel St until 1967. After its closure, the Catholic Church ran St Patrick's as a language school teaching English. In 1998, the language school was bought by Girish Chandra and incorporated as St. Patrick's International College Limited in 1999. Under Chandra's ownership, the college began adding externally awarded diplomas at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in law, business, tourism and hospitality, computing and health and social care. In 2012 Chandra sold the college to the Russian-born entrepreneur Aaron Etingen (also known as Arkady Etingen) through Etingen's company Interactive World Wide Limited. Etingen is the founder of the London School of Business and Finance and several associated for-profit colleges known collectively as the LSBF Group. After the purchase, St Patrick's College was describing itself as "a member of the LSBF Group". In a subsequent reorganisation of his companies begun in late 2012, Etingen established Global University Systems which is registered in The Netherlands as a besloten vennootschap (BV), a type of private limited liability company. Global University Systems BV then became the owner of St Patrick's College and the institutions of the LSBF Group through Dutch BV holding companies. Unlike the UK, The Netherlands does not require company accounts to be made publicly available.
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