Kaplan Higher Education is closing its Murdoch Institute of Technology.

The Institute states it is teaching out courses and will close this month – it has provided dips in business and IT, English-prep courses and a Murdoch U foundation programme.

The Perth closure has been on the agenda since last August, when pandemic caused declines in student numbers led the partners to agree to close now. However, Kaplan-taught Murdoch courses continue in Singapore.

Kaplan also provides pathway courses for the University of Adelaide at a campus in the City of Light. In terrible timing, the partners announced in January 2020 that  Kaplan would teach Uni Adelaide courses at a site in Melbourne’s Docklands (CMM January 22 2020). Uni Adelaide states its colleges are operating in Adelaide and Melbourne, with mid-year applications now open.

Kaplan is in good standing with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, being reregistered in October 2020 for the maximum seven years.