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UKCLE strategy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
strategy for supporting legal education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland includes a Nations Fund dedicated to supporting activities of a country specific character. We are developing areas of our website to showcase developments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, an…
Land reform in Scotland: is it achieving environmental justice?
Environmental justice in legal education reform in Scotland: is it achieving environmental justice? on 29 March 2010. The details of their paper and slides are provided below for information only. The paper considers the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and its ability to promote…
Legal education in Scotland
news Moving forward: legal education in Scotland – reports and resources from the 2010 UKCLE conference Law Awards of Scotland – 16 September 2010, Glasgow New lawyers essay competition 2010 – organised by the Law Society of Scotland for students in t…
Learning law in Scotland
stages involved in qualifying as a lawyer in Scotland. For information on the practice of legal education in Scotland and support for learning and teaching see our Scotland mini-site. Law schools Law is taught in the following Scottish institutions: University of Ab…
Law Student 2002: a profile of law students in Scotland
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 schools in Scotland (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburg…
Vocational legal education in Scotland: a model of partnership in action
Liz Campbell, Law Society of Scotland Opening address at Vocational Teachers Forum IV, 8 January 2005 Liz’ opening address at Vocational Teachers Forum IV provided an overview of developments regarding the Diploma in Legal Practice in Scotland. Solicitors’ …
2010 conference: Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland
Dale McFadzean, University of the West of Scotland Workshop 2: Teaching law to scientists, and science for the law curriculum: Forensic science Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Dundee and Niamh Nic Daeid, University of Strathclyde Plenary session: The route to qua…
2009 conference: Enhancing legal education in Scotland
slidespace What will enhance legal education in Scotland? – post on Zeugma Keynote presentations Alastair Robertson (Academy Scotland) discussed some of the issues facing Scottish universities and the kinds of attributes graduates need for them to be successful i…
Quality assurance in higher education
sections for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the QAA website give details of the procedures in each country and links to further information. The academic infrastructure section gives links to key components, including: Code of practice for the assurance …
The Scottish legal education context
sets the context for legal education in Scotland. (This page is based on articles which originally appeared in the Autumn 2000 and Spring 2001 issues of Directions.) In Scotland the operation of law (both substantive and procedural) is different in many respects from that of E…
Professional competence: can it be taught? A workplace perspective.
this shift (for example, the Law Society of Scotland, 2008). Leading commentators in the field have suggested that professionals learn more from applying knowledge in practice rather than learning about practice via formal classroom education situations (see, for example, Chiver…
Quality enhancement the Scottish way
The approach to quality assurance in Scotland adopted in 2003 differs from elsewhere in the UK in several ways. The key is the prioritisation of enhancement over assurance and diversity over compliance within a proactive, rather than reactive, framework. The Scottish quality e…
Stopping to think: reflections on the use of portfolios
medical practice for general practitioners. In Scotland a ‘revalidation folder’ has been introduced to facilitate and streamline the process of producing and organising the evidence required for appraisal and revalidation, structured under the GMC’s seven headi…
Getting started with e-portfolios: Glasgow Graduate School of Law
(the post-degree course for solicitors in Scotland) in partnership with five Scottish law firms. The pilot was first rolled out in September 2005, at that stage in paper form only – see Stopping to think: reflections on the use of portfolios for details of the pilot. Th…
Pathways to the Professions
with The School of Law, the Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates have developed an outreach programme for pupils and their families as part of the progamme, designed at giving pupils a realistic idea of studying law as well as of the variety of career opportuniti…
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Presence, emergence and knowledge objects: user interaction in a virtual learning environment
Paul Maharg and Patricia McKellar, Glasgow Graduate School of Law Presentation at Vocational Teachers Forum IV, 8 January 2005 Paul and Patricia’s presentation at the fourth Vocational Teachers Forum discussed their research into the use webcasts at Glasgow Graduate Sc…
Using SIMPLE at Glasgow Graduate School of Law
Case study on the use of the SIMPLE application at Glasgow School of Law (GGSL), one of five law schools participating in UKCLE’s SIMPLE project. If you would like to know more about the use of SIMPLE at GGSL contact Karen Barton on karen.barton@strath.ac.uk. At GGSL s…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Stirling School of Law
Case study on the use of the SIMPLE application in the law school at the University of Stirling, one of five law schools participating in UKCLE’s SIMPLE project. If you would like to know more about the use of SIMPLE at Stirling contact Kay Goodall on k.e.goodall@stir.ac…
Culture shock: I don't understand what plagiarism means
At the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010, Martin Jones (Glasgow Caledonian University) posed the question: whilst universities are chasing international students, are law schools doing enough to support the transition of culturally diverse learners into a UK educational …
Second guessing: is there a context for Second Life in legal education?
In their paper Michael Bromby and Martin Jones (Glasgow Caledonian University) invited participants to speculate on the potential for Second Life in law, reporting on their experiences with students on a legal IT module. The session was blogged on Zeugma, and Michael and Ma…
UKCLE nations mini site
on legal education in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales can be accessed via the left-hand menu or the links below. Legal education in Northern Ireland Legal education in Scotland Legal education in Wales…
The team
Bromby, Glasgow Caledonian University – Scotland Jane Holder, University College London – education for sustainable development Richard Owen, University of Glamorgan – Wales Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick – e-learning William Twining, Unive…
Workshop 4: Teaching law to scientists, and science for the law curriculum: Forensic evidence
conference Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland biographies Biographies Michael Bromby is employed as a reader in law and was previously a research fellow with the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning. The Centre is based at the School …
Plenary session: The route to qualification: PEAT 2 and CPD
and Collette Patterson (The Law Society of Scotland) This session is from the 2010 conference Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland abstract | presentation | biographies Abstract On 1 September 2011, Professional Education and Training Stage 2 (PEAT 2) will be …
Plenary: Legal education and the legal services market
conference: Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland Abstract The Legal Services Act 2007 is already bringing about substantial change to the legal services market in England and Wales. The passage of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 confirms a similar course for…
Workshop 3: The role of the profession in providing legal education
and Collette Paterson (The Law Society of Scotland) This workshop was part of the 2010 conference Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland abstract | biographies | notes Jim Moser and Collette Paterson led this interactive workshop, which allowed participants, working i…
Law Student 2000
followed a cohort of students at law schools in Scotland. Project aims Law Student 2000 aimed to give a picture of the expectations of the student cohort starting their degree in 2000, and to track how these changed over the course of their studies. The project focused on th…
Workshop 1: A new approach
LLB Dale McFadzean, University of West of Scotland This workshop was part of the 2010 conference Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland. A new approach: The clinical LLB Donald Nicolson (University of Strathclyde) abstract | biography Abstract Professor D…
Enhancing quality in legal education
assurance system for higher education in Scotland Graduate standards in law (1997) – report to examine the feasibility of developing benchmark standards for law Student engagement: what’s it all about? – presentations and films from a Quality Assurance Agen…
Archived Events (4)
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...…
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