The vision put forward for Regent¡¯s College, which currently has around 4,000 people studying at its central London campus, mostly from overseas, reveals it envisages having a student body of 10,000 by 2020.

In a strategic document entitled Regent¡¯s University London ¨C The Vision for 2020, the institution states that it will accommodate such an expansion by adding other locations to its current base in Regent¡¯s Park.

¡°In addition to the home campus, Regent¡¯s will comprise a number of other locations in London which it will gain through acquisition of other complementary institutions, by formal strategic partnership and by necessary organic expansion to meet new demand,¡± the strategy, revealed to staff last week, states.

It adds: ¡°In addition [Regent¡¯s] will operate a small number of campuses elsewhere in Britain and outside the UK both in its own right and in partnership with other similar brands.¡±

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Regent¡¯s, which is already in the process of applying for its own degree-awarding powers, also wants research degree-awarding powers by 2017 and American degree powers by 2014.

However, the strategy says it aims to continue a concentration on teaching international students, mostly undergraduates, with its course portfolio looking ¡°similar to the top American liberal arts colleges¡±.

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According to the most recent survey of private providers, Regent¡¯s College, which is a not-for-profit charity, is already the biggest full-time undergraduate provider in the UK outside the state-funded system.

Many of its degrees are currently validated by the Open University.

simon.baker@tsleducation.com