The University of Law (ULaw) is launching its Bar Practice Course (BPC) in Newcastle, directly challenging Northumbria University, the city’s only current provider of training for barristers. ULaw has partnered with Newcastle University to deliver the nine-month course from September 2022. The pair previously joined forces to launch ULaw’s Newcastle campus in September 2021. The […]
Two schemes have been launched to help professionals already working in the legal sector qualify as solicitors. Dentons has launched a route to qualification for 10 of its own paralegals. Named Quali-FLY, the route will take the selected paralegals, or other professionals, through the process of preparing for and taking the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). […]
UK legal education should welcome its Australian challengers
The first sitting of the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) resulted in a 53 per cent pass rate, and now one provider of prep courses has declared its pass rate. Nearly all (97 per cent) of its students responded to BARBRI’s request for pass rate information and the provider said that 79 per cent of […]
White & Case has chosen the University of Law (ULaw) to provide prep courses for the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) to its future trainees. The firm currently partners with BPP for provision of the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course, but will transition from one law school to the other as those courses […]
The University of Law (ULaw) has appointed a new vice-chancellor and CEO, replacing Professor Andrea Nollent as the legal education provider’s leader. Nollent stepped down at the end of August to take up the new post of chief academic officer of a portfolio of GUS Group universities – ULaw’s parent company. She took on the […]
Taylor Wessing will send its future trainees to the University of Law (ULaw), marking a switch from its previous exclusive provider of BPP. As of 2022, the university will deliver the SQE Masters in Legal Practice and Postgraduate Diploma to future Taylor Wessing trainees. The course is one of the many that have been developed […]
Clifford Chance has chosen the University of Law (ULaw) to deliver the courses that will prepare its future trainees for life in the profession. Following a competitive tender, ULaw secured the deal to deliver its Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE) courses alongside the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) before the latter […]
The College of Legal Practice (CoLP) has unveiled its preparatory courses for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE), declaring them a “generational change for legal education.” The full online programme preparing students to pass the SQE1 and SQE2 examinations will launch in summer 2021 and is called Developing Legal Professionals (DLP). It is divided into […]
The University of Law has unveiled its new suite of courses to prepare students for the Solicitors Qualification Exam, Replacing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) will be a course called Master of Laws Legal Practice (MLLP), which includes preparation for SQE parts 1 and 2. Replacing the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), which non-law graduates […]
The University of Law (ULaw) has taken its first steps into the Scottish market with the acquisition of Central Law Training Scotland (CLT Scotland) from Wilmington. The legal education giant will retain CLT Scotland’s team and transition it into its first Scottish operation over the course of the next 18 months. Founded in 1994, CLT […]
The University of Law (ULaw) has struck deals with four other universities to guarantee their graduates places on its forthcoming Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) prep course. The agreement has been reached between ULaw and the Universities of Southampton, Surrey, Leicester and Birkbeck. As part of the deal, ULaw will provide workshops during the other universities’ […]