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Oxbridge Ltd trading as Oxbridge Home Learning – In Administration (“the Company”)

I would advise you that I was appointed Administrator of the above company jointly with Guy Hollander by the Directors, on 1 October 2025. We are both authorised to act as an Insolvency Practitioner by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

I advise that, regrettably, the Company has ceased to trade and as a result your current course being conducted through the Company will not be completed.

What does this mean
All courses: Unfortunately, tutor support and marking have now come to an end.
Certificates/qualifications: Oxbridge will no longer be accredited, so it cannot award certificates.
System access: You will continue to have access to your online learning system and course materials until July 2026, but this will be for self-study only. This may allow you to complete your studies independently or transfer your work to another provider.

This company is in administration. They still seem to be inviting you to join courses and pay, but they have no way to support learners on courses, so the website should not be live. Please try to find another provider. If you have completed study with them you might be able to enter A levels or GCSEs as a private candidate locally.

Scam company! Took my 18 year old sons £600 and now have no course and no refund 😡 trying to use names like barston college. Trying to get his money back through the bank. Please don't fall for this scam the company are in administration and taking people's money illegally!

Has anyone been able to transfer to a different learning platform who have been willing to mark completed modules?
I have have completed the Advance Counselling Diploma but Oxbridge went into administration whilst my last three modules had been been submitted and they haven't been marked. Any ideas or expereince of who may be willing to take this on...without a massive cost implication? Thanks

Do not purchase for any service !!

This company has been in administration since October, 2025 !
All old students have received this message but they still pretending provide services for new students.

All tutor support and grading services are suspended without any help and refund.
I have lost £2384 with no compensation.

The course in itself was okay, despite the spelling mistakes. My tutor did not want to help me, I wanted to schedule weekly calls with her so I could stay on track and she could help me out with any questions, which I didn’t think was much to ask for but after the first call I realised how much she didn’t want to speak to me and after asking for help on multiple occasions I was just sent the question again which was obviously just copied and pasted (with all of the spelling mistakes). After I passed some units I sent it back in with more work on them as I strived for a higher mark and then after a ‘certified professional examiner’ marked my work as a pass the next one would mark it as a fail which is obviously incompetent and shows me they had no guidelines to go on like a usual course marking scheme, therefore one person could mark your work as a distinction and another could think it was a fail and it be the same piece of work or even more detailed. I tried to change my tutor after she wasn’t interested in actually tutoring me and I was told she was the ONLY tutor. I’m sorry but for paying over £1000 it was very disheartening to find out that the examiners weren’t marking to the same standard and my tutor wasn’t interested in her students or job.

I am managing director for the College of Media and Publishing. I am sorry to see one of our competitors go into administration. If you have been studying a course with Oxbridge open learning - similar to any of the courses we run, then we'd like to help you with a HEAVILY discounted course.

CANT answer any phone calls. Don’t trust them enough to teach you.

This course is such a scam, i’ve sent an email about a getting a refund 3 times and still haven’t heard back a month later. This course might as well have been made by chatgpt :/

Oxbridge College Scam
Oxbridge college is on administration and they are not giving any response to students after taking their money and not providing any certificate.They put people in stressful situation and when I am making phone calls to them they are not responding.They are not providing refunds as well.They are still selling their courses.

Quite upset, I intended to study A-Level chemistry for a year, and bought this course this august. Then the company went into administration. Out of my three A-Levels, I needed help with chemistry the most. I now had to spend more money on finding a way to get predicted grades for UCAS. Very sad and frustrating.

ANGRY EX TUTOR

I feel very angry today, so I'm saying so. Please do not enrol with this company or Barston. I've just been told that the administrators have no contact details for me. 6 years I was there. No morals, no empathy. Terrible, horrible people.

DO NOT USE
The website is still up but the company went into liquidation this month October 2025.
Current students have access to online material but there are no tutors or support.
Our son was studying A level Media Studies. We have spent a week trying to find an exam centre, online provider or sixth form that will take him on and are hitting a brick wall. The Company have provided no help or alternatives and we have wasted a lot of money for nothing. This could impact him applying for uni.
I have reported the whole process to the Department for Education in the hope this kind of situation can be prevented in the future. There needs to be a plan for students to continue if this happens.
The owners of this company are now trading as Barton College, another online learning provider. I have reported this, do not use.

I worked for Oxbridge a few years back. I left with them owing me £3k in unpaid invoices. Excuses, excuses, they stressed me so much I was forced to leave. Still haven't been paid. Awful management from the bottom to the top

SCAMMERS!!! SCAMMERS!!! SCAMMERS!!!!
I’ve paid £3310 for my IGCSE … I did the exams, NO HELP from Oxbridge at all.
Now? They don’t even give me my grades or any results or any QUALIFICATIONS!!!

SCAMMERS!! SCAMMERS!! SCAMMERS!!!

Please don’t give up

Like you all, I have also been let down by Oxbridge, but all is not lost.  I am sure you have all worked hard at your studies, only to be let down by this company. But again, all is not lost. 

Please do this:

Write to at least 20 education companies and ask them if they have a transfer of credit service.  I signed up for a Level 3 personal trainers’ course with Oxbridge and was let down.  I found a company that was willing to transfer my credits.   Due to the fact that I completed the course, I was given a great discount to get my coursework assessed. 

The company that accommodates level 3 personal trainers’ courses and has a transfer of credits service is Motion Fitness Education.   

At present, I am contacting other education providers asking if they have a transfer of credits service for other courses.  If I find any other providers, I will let you all know because I really want to be part of helping you all to complete your education journey.

As for the directors of Oxbridge, Matt Jones and Stacey Ryan, I draw comfort in the fact that you will both be held to account for your actions, and justice will prevail; it's only a matter of time.   

This company is a complete scam. Do not use them. I have been with them for 2 years and it is a complete waste of time and money. Go to literally any other place. Everything they have on their website is a complete lie. They give you fake emails that you will never receive a response from, they take months to reply to anything or mark anything. The tutors are completely useless if you ever do get through to them, the most I have ever received is a link to a website you can find yourself. It is the absolute worst.

I was on my final unit of a counselling level 3 diploma when i was notified Oxbridge had gone into administration and i would not be able to complete my diploma with them. I work a full time job in mental health and put aside many hours and hard work to aim to gain this qualification, i paid £50 a month to be left with no Diploma. I sent over 30 emails, made 20 calls and even sent a letter being left with no answers was so frustrating and disappointing. Feeling extremely let down by the service that promised unlimited tutor support. I have luckily found a way to submit my previous work to another organisation who have accepted me and taken me on as a student to complete my qualification. I would not recommend Oxbridge unless you want to be let down.

!!!!!A TEMPLATE TO SEND TO YOUR MP!!!!!!

Subject: Urgent Request for Action: Oxbridge Online Learning’s Collapse and the Exploitation of Students

Dear [MP’s Name],

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to you not only as a constituent, but as one of hundreds of ordinary people who have been financially and emotionally devastated by the sudden collapse of Oxbridge Online Learning (also known as Oxbridge Home Learning) — directed by Matthew Christopher Jones.

On ____[date]________ , I paid __[£amount]_______ for ___[courses]_______, including exams, practicals, and full tutor support. This represented over a year of savings and working over time, set aside from my modest income because I believed education could open doors for a change of direction in my future. Two months later, on 8 October 2025, I received an email saying the company had gone into administration. I was told that as an unsecured creditor, I am “unlikely to receive any of the money back.”

In one moment, all that I had worked for (the money, the opportunity to gain qualifications, and the trust I placed in a UK education provider) was wiped away.

What’s worse, I have since discovered that Oxbridge continues to operate in practice, still responding to enquiries and attempting to sell courses, and that its director has opened a new company, Barston College, selling the exact same products Oxbridge once did. It appears to be a clear case of phoenixing (a company shutting down to escape debts, only to re-emerge under another name to continue trading).

Beyond my own experience, I have read countless testimonies from students, parents, and adults retraining for new careers who have been left distraught, many out of pocket by thousands of pounds. Some had already studied for months or years and now find themselves unable to sit their exams, ruining university applications and professional plans. The BBC, BusinessLive, and Trustpilot all document the same heartbreaking pattern.

This isn’t just a business failure. It’s a breach of public trust and a moral crime. This is education theft.

I am asking for your help to:

Raise this issue with the Department for Education, Insolvency Service, and HMRC, and request an investigation into the conduct of Oxbridge’s directors and administrators.

Ask how it is legal for a company to keep taking payments while entering administration, and for its director to set up a near-identical business immediately afterward.

Call for stronger regulation and oversight of unaccredited online learning providers so this cannot happen again.

The people harmed by this are not investors, they are students, single parents, low-income adults, and young people trying to better their lives. They are the backbone of society. We deserve protection, not abandonment.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I would be deeply grateful for your support in ensuring justice is done and the system reformed.

With best wishes,
[name]
[Address]
[Email / Phone]

Took money when they knew they were going bust. £££ for some pdf files and YouTube links. The courses are apparently staying online until July but most you can’t progress past first few pages as you get locked out for not doing assignments you can’t submit. The courses on eg Romeo and juliet gcse were not good quality in the first place. They apparently are rebranding as Barston - near identical website. In summary exploiting vulnerable young people. Did not even inform us they had ceased trading but left hanging on phone for hours and only found out when looked them up on companies house.