277:. The reforms opened up access to government-funded maintenance grants and loans for students in private colleges. Together, the London School of Business and Finance and St Patrick's grew from 50 government-funded students in 2011 to approximately 6,000 over the next two years. LSBF and St Patrick's collectively netted £13.5m in tuition fee payments, with their students receiving a total of £49m in government grants and loans. An £80 million overspend on student loans at private providers led the government temporarily to suspend St Patrick's designation for receiving student loan funding, along with that of LSBF and 21 other private colleges. The designation was restored for the 2014–2015-year, and by the end of that year, St Patrick's had 6,668 students claiming £25.3 million in tuition loans from the
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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
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sponsor licenses suspended on 19 February 2015 "due to concerns about a number of compliance issues." The college was given 20 working days to submit representations to a review. As of
January 2019 the college is not on the Home Office registers of Tier 2 and Tier 4 sponsors and thus cannot recruit
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and other professional and postgraduate diplomas), the student enrollment on the HND courses was down to about 2000 from a previous high of 4000. The HND recruitment was predominantly domestic. The review singled out two areas of "exemplary practice":
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