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The focus on skills for improving students’ engagement: the Tuning educational structures approach
skills (both generic and specific), which students should develop within different cycles. With those skills we intend to create curricula (curriculum?) which helps students enter their professional lives more easily and improves the level of motivation of students using an inno…
Law Student 2002: a profile of law students in Scotland
j.a.hamilton@strath.ac.uk) Project summary: a study of students at six law schools in Scotland Completion date: August 2006 UKCLE funding: £3,500 + £6,975 + £4,900 The Law Student 2002 project, funded by UKCLE’s Nations Fund, followed a cohort of students at six law s…
Peer mentoring for international students
collaborative learning in supporting international students. Shamini’s slides are embedded below. She also presented this paper at the 2009 Socio-Legal Studies Association conference. Newcastle Law School first appointed an international student tutor as a pilot in 200…
How do law students decide where to apply to?
the sources of information prospective law students use when choosing which law school to apply to. Law schools inhabit a competitive market. More law schools are being established. Competitors are expanding their intakes. New courses may attract students who might otherwise …
Challenges of teaching law to non-law students
the challenges of teaching law to non-law students. This article is an abbreviated version of a paper presented at the 2004 Society of Legal Scholars Conference. Degree programmes offered by law schools are generally geared to foster analytical and critical grounding in the…
Assessing students on the Legal Practice Course
Law Society research in 2001 found that students from minority ethnic groups performed less well in their assessments on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) than their white colleagues. In this article from the Summer 2005 issue of Directions Rosemary Evans (Manager, Quality and Sta…
Retention of law students: diaries, study skills and reflective learning - what works?
strategies which focus on the promotion of students’ learning”? Or was it the House of Commons Education and Employment Committee of 2001, which looked at the most effective methods to reduce non-continuation of students? Somewhere along the line the sector sudden…
Engaging students through electronic voting – clickers and mobile phone systems
Abstract Electronic voting systems (EVS) allow students, via a clicker or mobile phone, to vote on polls that are embedded into a PowerPoint presentation. The results of a poll are displayed on the lecture screen so that students and lecturers can assess the results. The…
Understanding good teaching: what do students say?
The chosen project seeks to unpick what students and higher education teachers consider to be good teaching. The first phase of the empirical work is an online survey aimed at university students in the UK and the data collected from that survey are presented here. The results a…
An evaluation of the effectiveness of problem based learning as a method of engaging year one law students
professions including law schools (Biggs, 2003). Students are presented with a reality based problem and allowed to find their own responses to the problem; it is thus an active teaching method requiring students to question, speculate and generate their own reasoned solutions (…
National Law Students Forum
A steering group made up of students and academic staff is planning a second National Law Students Forum event on 22-23 June 2011, in Birmingham, with the aim of establishing a self-sustaining student run network for the future. Up to 75 student representatives will be invited, …
Students
Welcome to our Students section, which contains information of interest to those of you who are thinking about studying law, or are already doing so.…
Preparing black Caribbean students for the legal profession
curriculum in preparing black Caribbean students for entry into the legal profession Completion date: March 2004 UKCLE funding: £5,000 Black Caribbean solicitors represent a disproportionately small percentage of practising certificate holders, despite being well represented …
Hitting the ground running? Preparing students for practice
the Legal Practice Course (LPC) prepares students for their training contracts. Download the full report as an RTF file at the bottom of the page (89 pages, 4.75MB). The study arose in response to concerns expressed by a number of City firms about the quality of new trainees.…
How do I prepare my students to use a VLE?
as increasing numbers of students coming to university are computer literate the difficulties with what is called ‘technophobia’ should diminish. However, effective learning will usually not take place until the student is settled comfortably into the electronic e…
Reflection with practitioner students
Litigation. All are part time, involving students attending in blocks of two to five days over a period of one or two years for the diploma stage and a further year for the LLM. (There is also a period of ‘writing up’ of the dissertation component of the LLM.) The …
Tuning in not zoning out: teaching students legal skills via a multimedia learning hub
Prosser and Trigwell established that where students perceive their environment to be supportive of learning approaches aimed at developing understanding, they are more likely to develop a greater understanding (Prosser and Trigwell, 1993). Thus, we have started to create a lega…
Will video kill the manuscript scrawl? The impact of video feedback on students’ perception of feedback
problematic. The percentage of full time students who agreed or mostly agreed with question nine of the NSS (“Feedback on my work has helped me clarify things I did not understand”) was 57 per cent in England in 2009 (rising to 58 per cent in 2010), with similarly low levels…
Achievement, attendance and attitudes of first year business students: their effects on success at the University of Brighton Business School
Group’) need to work harder at ensuring the students they enrol do not drop out. Funding issues are extremely important but so too is the student experience of higher education. An improved picture of the student population could well lead to improved practices in retaining th…
What do students think about small group work?
Students will tell you in no uncertain terms what personal qualities they want in their fellow group members – below is a list of likes and dislikes. The LLB Crime and Society Group 2008-09 at the University of the West of England devised their own student charter for effe…
Can students guess their way to success in an MCQ?
use of negative scoring may discourage students from equating multiple choice with multiple guess (see question 5). More general solutions to scoring problems could include: raising the pass mark for the MCQ element of assessment making MCQs one component of the asses…
National Law Students Forum 2010
November 2010 and aimed to: demonstrate how students can actively develop their contribution to the learning process increase the students’ skills base, e.g. from note taking in meetings and preparing reports to committees to communication and negotiation skills set up…
Advice for students
What should students gain from their legal education? What are law firms looking for? These short interviews feature legal practitioners and educators talking about the key skills which law students should aim to develop during their legal education, and what makes them stan…
How many students are required in a moot?
to answer! Traditionally a moot has four students participating, but there is no real reason why this number cannot be contracted or expanded. A typical moot involves two teams, each with two students. One student on each team will be designated Lead and the other Junior Couns…
Getting started with e-portfolios: advice for students, staff and employers
education project, give some advice for students, staff and employers on using e-portfolios – see Getting started with e-portfolios for more. Advice for students An e-portfolio is useful because: it keeps your work in a central repository it’s fun to ref…
Using podcasts to develop students' referencing skills using OSCOLA
presented a poster on using podcasts to develop students’ referencing skills. This poster described one project in a wider initiative developing a series of reusable learning objects integrating podcasts with Web-based interactive materials to enhance opportunities for s…
Teaching professional skills to distance learning students through the medium of film
train, educate and influence consumers and students, however many have poor production standards and overall quality, and fail to resonate with a sophisticated audience of students. In order to teach distance learning students client interviewing skills ILEX Tutorial College pro…
Developing students’ critical thinking skills through peer assessment and information literacy
Glamorgan) looked at an attempt to develop students’ critical thinking through information literacy and the use of asynchronous methods of peer assessment to develop essay writing and intellectual skills. Richard’s slides are embedded below. Richard’s prese…
Look it up before you leap: guiding students across the academic-vocational legal resources divide
explored the skills and emotional vocabulary students need to progress from the undergraduate study of the law to issue focused engagement with legal resources in practice. Marcus’ slides are embedded below. This presentation grew out of a research project on the Bar V…
Pot luck for students: tutor A or tutor B?
session was blogged on Zeugma. How do students really feel when faced with two lecturers in one module? A lecturer team teaching on the LLB, the presenter noticed that while most students tend to pick their ‘favourite’ lecturer and settle into their own pattern of…
Current Events (4)
Institute for Law Teaching & Learning conference
The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning 2011 conference will be held at New York Law School in New York City on the theme of engaging and assessing our students.…
Academia as workplace: Linking past, present and future
The theme for this fourth conference seeks to engage with notions of Academia as constituting a workplace in itself, and of academic practices as forms of work. Within this theme, proposals should address the experiences of early career academics, including those of doctoral stud...…
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SENDA and legal education
What are the implications of disability discrimination for law teachers and how can we address them? This event drew on the experience and expertise of law teachers in developing learning and teaching practice in the context of the Special Education Needs and Disability Act 2001...…
Developing reflection and autonomy in law
This seminar, building on the work of UKCLE's "personal development planning working group":/resources/personal-development-planning/ukcle-personal-development-planning-working-group/, explored how reflective and critical skills are currently being developed and assessed in UK la...…
From Northumbria to Bologna: Alternative routes to qualification in law
The professional bodies are aiming to encourage alternative and more flexible routes to qualification as a lawyer. Employers in general are becoming more vociferous about the expectations that they have of graduates. Law schools, in the light of increasing student numbers and dwi...…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2011
The Learning in Law Annual Conference 2011 will provide a forum for delegates to consider how different stakeholders experience legal education from a variety of viewpoints: locally, nationally and globally; in the Academy, in the workplace and in the student body. The conference...…
Teaching and learning for legal skills trainers
The aim of this seminar, organised in collaboration with "BIALL":http://www.biall.org.uk/home.asp (the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians), was to showcase innovative practice in learning and support from the perspective of the law librarian. The programme explored iss...…
Environmental justice in legal education
This conference was designed to give space to people to share and discuss questions and ideas surrounding environmental justice in teaching, legal practice and research. Through workshops and group discussion, participants were offered some clear pointers, ideas and guidance as t...…
Exploring the impact of the Government of Wales Act 2006 on legal education in the UK
The Government of Wales Act 2006 has significant implications for those involved in legal education both in Wales and across the UK. This seminar, jointly organised by UKCLE and the University of Glamorgan, provided an outline of the main provisions of the Act and explored the wa...…
Legal Ethics 2008
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