Kaplan Open Learning Limited
Registered name: KAPLAN OPEN LEARNING LIMITED
Part of Graham Holdings Company groupKaplan Open Learning Limited made £31.4m revenue and £5.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Kaplan Open Learning Limited’s revenue grew 19% to £31.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £5.1m profit and 208 employees. The company is classified under “first-degree level higher education” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.8m | £26.3m | £31.4m |
| Cost of sales | −£7.6m | −£8.7m | −£9.8m |
| Gross profit | £15.2m | £17.6m | £21.6m |
| Operating profit | £3m | £4.3m | £6.5m |
| Profit before tax | £3m | £4.3m | £6.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £3.3m | £5.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £3.3m | £5.1m |
| Employees (average) | 188 | 198 | 208 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.1% | 12.3% | 16.2% |
| Gross margin | 66.8% | 67% | 68.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £121k | £133k | £151k |
| Profit per employee | £11.1k | £16.4k | £24.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.5% | ▲19.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲56.2% | ▲56.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▲5.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 16.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 68.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £151k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £24.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 208
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Graham Holdings Company (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Kaplan U.K. Limited75–100%
- Kaplan International Holdings Limited75–100%
- Kaplan Open Learning Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Kaplan Higher Education UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (13)
- Eagle Education and Training LimitedRev. £364k · Profit £67.1k
- Kaplan Professional Awards LimitedRev. £257k · Profit −£209k
- Hawksmere LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Holborn College LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Assessments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Dubai LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Financial LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan International Colleges U.K. LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Professional Me LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Publishing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kaplan Saudi Arabia Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mander Portman Woodward LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Osborne Books LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £5.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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