The latest information about UK law school courses, including undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the Graduate Diploma in Law, Legal Practice Course and Bar Professional Training Course.
With artificial intelligence (AI) growing at a rapid pace, many industries are looking at how AI, as well as new tech innovations more generally, can influence their ways of working. When looking at the legal sector in particular, AI presents a range of new opportunities, whether that’s supporting with research and drafting briefs or analysing […]
A lack of basic telephone and interpersonal skills among junior lawyers has led legal education providers to question how they can plug the gap. Gripes about junior lawyers mentioned to The Lawyer by partners across the legal industry include being too scared to pick up the phone to call a client, and not knowing how to […]
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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 […]
The cost of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) is to rise for the first time since it was introduced. The cost of the first part of the exam (SQE1) is to rise from £1,558 to £1,622 while the cost of SQE2 moves from £2,422 to £2,493, a total rise of £135. The cost of prep […]
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The unexpected renovation of BPP Law School’s Holborn campus has sparked outrage among law students who are paying a premium for studying in London but remain unable to use the facilities. In photos published on social media, the Holborn building appears stripped of all fittings and furniture, with BPP since confirming that the campus is […]
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 […]
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has become the latest institution to unveil its courses to prepare students for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). After BPP and the University of Law, NTU is one of the main providers of postgraduate legal education and the new courses are its attempt to cater to the market as the […]
BPP’s PR agency has been blocked from Wikipedia after attempting to edit the university’s entry on the website. The open-collaborative online encyclopedia had previously warned a user from the BPP internal PR team. The university’s PR agency, Gerard Kelly & Partners has been banned from editing Wikipedia pages after it attempted to change parts of […]
How many students enrolled on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) last year? Go on, have a guess. Googling will do you no good, for this particular number is nowhere to be found on the internet. Until a decade ago, LPC stats were fairly easy to come by – making it easier to see the post-2008 […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has found huge discrepancies in Legal Practice Course (LPC) pass rates across the country in its annual quality assurance report. In the 2017/18 academic year, pass rates ranged from as high as 100 per cent to as low as 29 per cent depending on where students study. The overall pass […]
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Hogan Lovells has become the seventh firm to announce that it has increased its maintenance grant for future trainees on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) to £10,000.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has increased its Legal Practice Course maintenance grant from £7,000 to £10,000 with immediate effect. The firm stated that decision to increase the grant was driven by a recognition of rising living costs in London. However, it is also following the lead of the magic circle firms. Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Freshfields […]