The Knowledge Training School to Close

The Knowledge School on Caledonian Road, Islington, is set to close next month after 30 years of teaching trainee drivers ‘The Knowledge’ which drivers need to complete to qualify as a licensed black taxi driver in London, and which consists of routes through the City’s 25,000 streets.

The closure follows the introduction of Uber drivers, who are in direct competition, and this has seen numbers of students decline from around 350 a year to 200 last year.  The school was started by Mr Linskey thirty years ago, and he said that the school would continue to produce printed and online teaching material, and hoped to run training sessions in local centres and church halls.

Mr Keefe, a student at the school said that he was certain black cabs would continue even in the face of such competition, and told the Financial Times ‘Quality prevails, We’ll win out’