The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider.

The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

BPP Law School dean Peter Crisp commented: "BPP are delighted with this result, especially in meeting the SRA's tougher new assessment criteria. We feel this assessment reflects the excellent teaching, resources and support that BPP offers to trainee solicitors."

The news comes after BPP was granted degree-awarding status earlier this year, becoming the UK's first private-sector education provider to award the qualification.

BPP will now offer the LPC and the Bar Vocational Course as optional masters degrees, with students able to take additional modules to win the degree. The Graduate Diploma in Law will be offered as an honours degree in law.

Rival provider the College of Law awarded its first batch of degrees earlier this month after clinching degree-awarding status in May 2006.

BPP has around 5,000 full and part-time students and outperformed the rest of the BPP training group for the first half of 2007, with profits up nearly 50% against a 17% hike in turnover. It also retained its status as exclusive provider to the City LPC consortium – a key client comprising Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May.