About Kaplan

Kaplan, Inc

Kaplan, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing part of The Washington Post Company, comprising half of its revenue. Founded in 1938, Kaplan has grown into a diverse education company providing school-age education, higher education and professional training. We now serve more than one million students each year in approximately 600 locations throughout 30 countries across the globe.

Kaplan Professional UK is part of Kaplan, Inc, a leading global provider of educational and training services and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

At Kaplan, our mission is to help individuals achieve their educational and career goals. We build futures one success story at a time.

As one of the world’s leading providers of lifelong education with operations around the globe, we serve students of all ages through a wide array of offerings. These include programmes for kids and schools, post-secondary education, professional training and more.

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Kaplan in the UK

Kaplan's presence in the UK stretches back more than 50 years through the Financial Training Company, which it acquired in 2003. We are one of the largest providers of professional training and business qualifications in Asia and the UK, and won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2007.

Kaplan Professional UK

As the UK’s leading provider of training for Accountants and Financial professionals with operations around the UK, we have evolved well beyond our historic roots in Accountancy training to provide publications, online tuition, CPD and legal qualifications and training.

We are strongly committed to attracting and supporting students and delegates from all educational, professional and cultural backgrounds. We work in partnership with you to achieve your goals.

Other Kaplan Professional UK Businesses:

Kaplan Financial
Kaplan Financial is the UK’s leading provider of accountancy and financial training. We offer courses in 27 locations throughout the UK as well as home study and online learning for thousands of students and onsite training for many of the UK’s largest businesses.

Kaplan Financial combines 50 years of educational and learning excellence with leading on-line learning technologies, award-winning materials and of course, the industry’s most experienced and successful tutors.

Kaplan Altior
Recognised as the market leaders in legal skills training and consulting services to the legal profession for over 30 years, Kaplan Altior bring the best out of their clients by delivering the Professional Skills Course (PSC), Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT), Higher Rights of Audience and a range of other CPD courses. Go to Kaplan Altior to study PSC and QLTT.

Kaplan Hawksmere
Kaplan Hawksmere has over 25 years experience producing quality public and in-house training, webinars, and managing outsourced training contracts, for professionals and executives in business, industry and government. As one of the UK’s foremost training and conference organisations over 30,000 customers attended a variety of programmes covering management and personal skills, health and safety, project management and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) within the legal, finance, accounting and tax sectors. Go to the Kaplan Hawksmere pages for CPD training.

Kaplan Publishing
Kaplan Publishing is the UK leading publishers of financial qualifications materials and textbook. Formerly known as Foulks Lynch, Kaplan Publishing is the leading provider of Financial Accounting publications and online solutions for accounting professionals. Kaplan Publishing provides targeted study materials, which help individuals to achieve their educational needs whether they are studying on their own, participating in distance learning or attending a classroom course. Go to Kaplan Publishing for Accounting Books, Accounting materials and study guides.

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