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Widening participation in legal education
in several activities aimed at widening participation to legal education. We held an event entitled Should I stay or should I go? Retention strategies for law, in December 2003, and discussed the response to disability discrimination legislation at the Access to law seminar in N…
Widening participation: the changing agenda
current government activity on widening participation. The government’s white paper on the future of higher education has significant implications for those working in the sector. The document is focused on institutional diversity, forcing institutions to define themsel…
Widening participation in the Black Country
operation in the Black Country. Widening participation programmes have a real contribution to make in meeting the challenge of providing equal opportunities for all to enter higher education and to enjoy the advantages that it brings. Such programmes must be positive in appro…
Building and sharing resources: annotated bibliographies, student participation and online gadgetry!
Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) In the audio accompanying this presentation, Michael explains how students collated and reviewed resources to create a bibliography for their course. Presentation The presentation was part of the Show and Tell session at…
Recruitment strategies for law degrees: is the agenda achievable?
languages. At the same time we have the widening participation agenda, the introduction of top-up fees and the debate on falling standards. How can a law school’s recruitment strategy seek to address effectively all of these issues? Firstly, without wishing to be unduly …
Pathways to the Professions
Pathways to the Professions, a widening participation initiative at the University of Edinburgh, is aimed at encouraging students from non-privileged backgrounds to apply to study a number of professional subjects, including law. This article, written in December 2005, describes…
Multilateral negotiations as a forum for student role play
environment have a positive impact on student participation in classes? The School of Law at Essex is attempting to identify a tangible link between role play and participation in class, drawing on the experience of trials conducted over the course of spring/summer 2008. Back…
Stop thief! Engaging young people with the law
university is paramount to increasing their participation, and is involved in three initiatives aimed at young people. The Children’s University The Children’s University is an event aimed at year 10 pupils from local schools. The children come into the universit…
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…
Law Society helps combat the cost of qualification
This article from the Spring 2006 issue of Directions provides an update on Law Society scholarships and bursaries in England and Wales – for further information see the Qualifications and funding section of the Law Society website. The Law Society of England and Wales …
Contact UKCLE
You can contact UKCLE by mail, phone, fax, e-mail or by visiting us. UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: 024 7652 3117 Fax: 024 7652 3290 E-mail: ukcle@warwick.ac.uk We are based in the School of Law at the University of War…
Preparing black Caribbean students for the legal profession
UKCLE PDF project Project leaders: Helen Carr, London Metropolitan University (e-mail: helen.carr@lawcommission.gsi.gov.uk) and Eddie Tunnah, University of Westminster (e-mail: tunnahe@wmin.ac.uk) Project summary: an examination of the effectiveness of the undergraduate law c…
Ladders 2 Law: e-mentoring aspiring lawyers
Ladders 2 Law is a programme for students from non-privileged backgrounds interested in a career in law. The project, run by the Brightside Trust, consists of a weblog-based mentoring programme and the Ladders 2 Law library, with news items, careers advice and features. For fu…
Ethnic Minorities Law Net
UKCLE PDF project Project leader: Richard Jones, Liverpool John Moores University (e-mail: r.p.jones@livjm.ac.uk) Project summary: dissemination of good practice on learning and teaching in a wide range of areas of law as they relate to ethnic minorities Completion date: Apri…
Teaching students how to 'think like a lawyer': a comparative approach
Peter Wendel, Pepperdine University Peter’s session outlined a programme he has pioneered to help students from non-traditional backgrounds engaged in the struggle of ‘learning to think like a lawyer’. His presentation involved the audience in considering a r…
'E-tivities'
discussion board can be used to maximise participation and engagement with traditional seminar work. In a fortnightly seminar timetable, if the work carried out prior to the seminar is done only by the presenter, the ensuing class discussion may be fractured or non-existent, and…
Recruitment and retention in legal education
gives background information on widening participation, focusing on the issues of disabled students, recruitment and retention, and includes a number of examples of good practice.…
General transferable skills: teamwork
group Illustrations Of Activities At basic level, participation in: group research project mooting teams tutorials, seminars or discussion led by senior students or lecturers team negotiation exercises At advanced level, participation in: inter-disci…
General transferable skills: Staffordshire University
skill is assessed (for example tutorial participation, presentation skills) then feedback is provided. …
The limits of the VLE
who needs to be carefully encouraged into participation in the learning is easier to help along in face-to-face contexts than online …
UKCLE professional development seminars
the curriculum diversity and widening participation, including retention and accessibility issues Each seminar is tailored to meet specific requirements and costs are calculated on an individual basis, taking into account budgetary constraints. Where funding for an event i…
Teaching legal ethics in contextualised settings
summary: funded as part of UKCLE’s participation in the LTSN ETHICS project, this project aimed to identify effective models of teaching ethics in law Completion date: December 2006 UKCLE funding: £2,120 The benchmark statement for law specifically recognises the need …
Role play exercises
due to lack of time to meet or unbalanced participation by group members. Allocating a discussion board to each working group in a role play assignment and notifying students that their contributions to the discussion will be taken into consideration generally removes these two …
What's in a law degree?
curriculum in order to meet the widening participation agenda and other current challenges. Law is now the most popular undergraduate subject judged by applications received this year. If widening participation was merely about getting more students registered on degrees, we …
Show and tell
resources: annotated bibliographies, student participation and online gadgetry! Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) National Law Students Forum Imogen Canavan (student, Kent Law School) and Sefton Bloxham (UKCLE) …
UKCLE networking
awareness in the priority areas of widening participation, retention and teaching excellence, and is seeking examples of good practice in the form of case studies. The Fund for the Development of Teaching Resources (FDTR) supports this activity. The Access to Law seminar in No…
Delivering continuing professional development using online distance learning
the first couple of weeks, but thereafter participation declined, no matter how much the tutor tried to encourage them. This was due to the fact that the students were all in full time employment (the programme was offered only on a part time basis during this period) and the in…
Chair's report: Caroline Coles
how you can gain the benefits of audience participation voting without the use of clickers via the use of a standard mobile phone. This demonstrated how technology enhanced learning is becoming easier to use and free within usage constraints (student numbers up to 30). …
Environmental justice in Spanish environmental law (Environmental justice in legal education event)
particularly in the latter. Access to information, participation in the decision-making process and access to justice have a direct link with the core of environmental justice. This implies a new approach in the decision-making process, giving people the opportunity to say somet…
LILI 2003 panel discussion
and benchmarking, assessment widening participation – the picture in law, equality of opportunity and access to legal education and training, and implications for learning, teaching and assessment processes and practices quality assurance – focusing on developing…
Archived Events (2)
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...…
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