Grafton College London is a small, private college that provides undergraduate, postgraduate and professional training courses.

Curriculum

It provides Business and Management courses in London. The College runs courses in Business, Management, Computing, Accounting & Finance and Travel & Tourism and English Language. The

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offers degree courses in partnership with Grafton College.

History

The college was founded in 2003. The college taught courses supplied by

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until it suspended its relationship with Grafton College following a 2017 BBC Panorama investigation.

Panorama investigation

In 2017 an investigation broadcast on 13 November 2017 by BBC

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found cases of student loan fraud and breaches of academic integrity at the college, including an offer from hairdresser Saeed Imran Sheikh that assignments could be fraudulently completed by agents in

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, and an example of a fraudulent certificate produced by the British Awarding Association (Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd) located in the same building as Grafton College. Sheikh claimed that he had obtained them from Grafton's Head Of Operations Alex.

References

External links

Official website
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