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Recruitment and retention in legal education
focusing on the issues of disabled students, recruitment and retention, and includes a number of examples of good practice.…
Recruitment strategies for law degrees: is the agenda achievable?
standards. How can a law school’s recruitment strategy seek to address effectively all of these issues? Firstly, without wishing to be unduly provocative, I would suggest that there is a dichotomy emerging in some universities between the widening participation agenda an…
Examples of good practice in recruitment and retention
examples of good practice are taken from Recruitment and retention in legal education, a report commissioned by CALE, the Consortium for Access to Legal Education, and published in 2002. Several institutions have introduced initiatives to address the issues of recruitment and…
How do law students decide where to apply to?
information. Given HEFCE’s concern about law school recruitment it is interesting to note how different groups relied on different sources of information – for example Pakistani and Bangladeshi respondents (n=94) placed considerably greater emphasis on guidance from pe…
Access to legal work experience and its role in the (re)production of legal professional identity
entry. This raises important questions about recruitment practices and the profession’s conceptualisation of merit. Work experience represents a key way of obtaining entry to the profession for those without access to the traditional ‘networks’, however it seems likely t…
Engaging students
findings from his research into student recruitment, based on responses to online surveys by law students in their first term. Participants were asked to guess the factors influencing prospective law students and the sources of information they valued most – with some surp…
From pupil to professional: is pupillage fit for purpose?
pupils and how these should be assessed recruitment processes and whether current selection procedures are fair and effective in selecting the best candidates for the Bar the funding of pupillage and the need for exemptions or waivers to the funding and advertising rules w…
Consultation on deferral of call to the Bar - UKCLE response
including questions as to its impact on recruitment to and diversity in the profession. The paper also recognised that deferred call had the potential to change the relationship between the Bar Vocational Course and the degree of barrister. If a student is no longer entitled to …
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007
of keeping students engaged, ranging from recruitment issues to student-centred learning and giving feedback Clinical legal education stream Papers from parallel sessions E-portfolios in the professions: experiences from law, medicine and veterinary medicine – P…
Towards the death of French law schools?
called ‘agrégation’). This recruitment process has the advantage of offering the possibility to a young researcher or teacher of becoming a professor at around 30 years of age, and also avoids the local bias that sometimes characterises the recruitment of academics;…
Project Internationalisation
areas of transnational delivery and direct recruitment onto home summer programmes from partner international institutions. In response to demographic changes the faculty wished to establish a clear international identity to aid recruitment and sustain financial viability. How…
The role and purpose of assessment
distinguish between a cohort of students, to aid recruitment and selection, to assure ourselves that the learning outcomes of the programme have been met, and of course to improve student learning. (For more detail on different types of assessment see Effective assessment strate…
General transferable skills: University of Manchester
aspects of that firm – management, recruitment, marketing etc. They are expected to write a research proposal early in the semester and at the end, submit a research report with executive summary and make a presentation of its contents to fellow students, course tuto…
What kind of future?
used by many universities to bolster low recruitment in other subjects, law is expected to be charged at this higher fee. Will this affect recruitment? In Australia, where the Higher Education Contributions Scheme places law in the top category along with medicine, there has bee…
Accessibility in law schools: learning, teaching and assessment
staff development issue. Admissions Recruitment teams need to review literature, its format and its availability to a wide variety of disabilities, the accessibility of websites, access to open days, interviews etc. For example, are interviews necessary for prospective stude…
Law Student 2000: prelude to the finale
Council at least is seeking to be proactive in recruitment. Their recent consultation report on funding entry to the Bar recognises the issues facing legal education and makes some important suggestions as to the future. The fact that the Bar Council is spending £11.7 million t…
What do employers want?
curriculum change. Available research data on recruitment preferences and practices point to the extent that employers, first and foremost, are seeking good students from ‘the right’ universities. Consequently, while the package of knowledge and skills developed by students …
Transition management in a large law school: a module-based solution
possibilities and professional ethics. Recruitment, CV writing and enhancement, vacation placements, work experience, covering letters and Certificate in Professional Practice. Nottingham Trent transitions working group During June 2008 the transitions working group at…
Widening participation in legal education
key agencies, publications and materials Recruitment and retention in legal education – report (2002) commissioned by CALE, including examples of good practice Enhancing retention and student success – paper on the importance of the student experience in addressi…
The firm as a new actor in legal education: implications for lawyers' identity formation
and corporate techniques such as selective recruitment, induction, mentoring and corporate training, designed to shape, from an early stage, how new recruits come to understand their role and duties as a professional practitioner. We aim to further enhance understanding of the…
From JALT to the International Journal of Legal Education
law school curriculum, student assessment, recruitment and broader issues such as student finance and poverty. It is a proud and solid achievement, very well supported by Sweet & Maxwell and a continuously enthusiastic editorial board and its hard working editors and contr…
What's in a law degree?
the value added by their endeavours. The recruitment policies of the legal professions may be harder to influence through direct intervention, but the release in August of a consultation document by the Bar Council and the Law Society on the academic stage of training does ack…
Mooting for learning
stressing the opportunity to moot during recruitment (Broadbent 2001), however there continues to be some disagreement as to precisely what mooting should be used for. It is perhaps not unsurprising that this debate exists, since it is well known that the legal academy is cons…
Part time law students: first contact
2000, p28) Corporate recruitment brochures are selling a lifestyle to the young urban professional. However, these images seem to leave little room to accommodate non-traditional entrants to the corporate world (which is by far the largest recruiter). I…
Pathways to the Professions
officer within the university’s Student Recruitment & Admissions service have developed links with schools and professional bodies with a view to increasing the number of applicants from under-represented groups. They have agreed outreach and activity programmes with f…
Designing a curriculum for criminal justice
terms of academic development and student recruitment. To stimulate cross-school and collaborative staff development and research in the area of criminal justice. To provide a platform for the future development of professional training courses and postgraduate work in …
Legal education in practice: insights on a journey
consequence of this could be significant from a recruitment perspective – such a scenario could render medium to large scale firms the legal education powerhouses of the future. There will remain, as there always has been, an ‘affluent’ dimension to the unive…
Welsh medium education at Glamorgan
education in the university’s main recruitment area, and students need to be offered the opportunity to progress in their studies in the Welsh language at higher education level. For example, Rhondda Cynon Taff has increased the number of pupils in Welsh speaking secondary…
An exploratory study into the use of interactive technology to teach law
model on the law programme, given its high recruitment. Previous small scale studies in the law school indicate that students place great weight on lectures as an aid to learning – it is therefore imperative to explore ways of working within the available resources to make…
From education, education, education to skills, skills, skills!
universities – it may mean that the recruitment downturn will be smaller in respect of their traditional markets than the bare statistics suggest, but equally that widening participation is likely to become less effective as the numbers of 18-20 year olds coming through co…
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