In less than a year, Regent had gone from about 10 such students to well over a thousand…For-profit Regent is one of several London colleges to have made Pearson’s HND central to its expansion plans. In 2012-13, funded HND and HNC student numbers at private colleges in England increased seven-fold from 2,600 to 18,000, with more than £130 million being issued by the SLC. Another college that mushroomed was St Patrick’s International College, which took its HND and HNC intake from 50 to more than 4,000 in that one year. THE