The Bar Professional Training Course or BPTC is a postgraduate course which allows law graduates to be named and practise as barristers in England and Wales. The eight institutes that run the BPTC along with the four prestigious Inns of Court are often collectively referred to as Bar School. Until September 2010, it was known as the Bar Vocational Course, or BVC. September 2020, the BPTC will be replaced by a number of courses with each offering institute having deciding on its own nomenclature for the firm. The BPTC is currently one of the most expensive legal courses in Europe.