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Recruitment and retention in legal education
issues of disabled students, recruitment and retention, and includes a number of examples of good practice.…
Enhancing retention and student success
University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on retention strategies for law, 2 December 2003 In his address Mantz spoke about the various stakeholders in the retention agenda; students, institution and the state. He argued that education, not retention, is the goal of higher ed…
Retention of law students: diaries, study skills and reflective learning - what works?
outlines the law school’s successful retention strategy, which uses a combination of approaches including a reflective essay. For more than ten years the university sector has been guided, harassed and cajoled to improve retention rates. What was the starting pistol for…
Examples of good practice in recruitment and retention
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 retention. The U…
Absorbing the shock: early findings from a project on first year success
Science. In her faculty role she co-ordinates retention strategies, while in the law school she is currently developing a new year 1 unit for full time students on pervasive skills, and also has responsibility for e-learning. Sallie Spilsbury is a principal lecturer in the Sc…
Equality and assessment in law
with the aim of identifying ways in which retention and achievement rates can be improved for all students without compromising academic standards. There is a differential impact on students based both on types of assessment and on considerations of gender, ethnicity, age or dec…
Facing the challenges of transition to legal education while engaging the learner
programmes will continue to expand, and retention may become more of an issue as students recognise the bottle neck of lack of training contracts and pupillage and find relevant work experience harder to acquire. Non-law graduates entering CPE programmes are also likely to decli…
An exploratory study into the use of interactive technology to teach law
promote greater student engagement and improve retention. Based on feedback from focus groups that had identified student demand for greater interactivity in large lectures (250+ students), the presenter had conducted a research project to investigate the potential of clicker…
Achievement, attendance and attitudes of first year business students: their effects on success at the University of Brighton Business School
contributors | abstract | biographies | paper Contributors Tracey Taylor (University of Brighton) Format Paper presentation Abstract With widening student participation and an increase in non-continuation rates it is becoming increasingly clear that som…
From the FE frying pan into the HE fire: HND direct entry to level 2 of the BA (Hons) Business and Law
Susan Barber and David Bailey, Southampton Institute Students entering level 2 of the BA (Hons) Business and Law degree at Southampton Institute’s Law Faculty have historically underachieved, with consistently low grades or dropping out of the programme before compl…
Widening participation in legal education
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 November 2002. In the past CALE, the Consortium on Access to Legal Education, has run …
UKCLE professional development seminars
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 is pr…
Introducing personal development planning at the University of Central England
terms of student support and, hopefully, retention. …
Peer mentoring for international students
time, with both the percentage of passes and retention of first year international students increasing. The law school now intends to develop further support for international students across the whole student cohort. One tool in the success of the initiative has been the sett…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
below. Enhancing the student experience and improving retention rates – Simon Brooman (Liverpool John Moores University) read report below. So now that you have a law school, what do you do with it? As founders of two new law schools (Bradford and Chester respec…
What do we mean by reflection?
cycle in order to maximise understanding and retention Active learning If you are learning how to use a software program, instructions which just set out the theory with no examples or screenshots are conceptually difficult to follow and almost impossible to retain. The sa…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009: Concepts of culture in legal education
student support; admissions procedures; retention issues; staff development; skills development multiculturalism – implications for teaching and learning in law The social programme on Friday evening kicked off with a drinks reception with entertainment courtesy of T…
UKCLE networking
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 November 2002 broug…
Restructuring your QLD: rebutting allegations of 'dumbing down'
exam. Drivers such as widening participation and retention goals made the Scheme Development Team (SDT) consider whether introducing alternative methods of assessment could retain the necessary ‘quality’ in the modules and also give students an opportunity to s…
UKCLE Wales e-newsletter
www.heacademy.ac.uk/wales/ourwork/changeacademy. 2.2 Wales Retention Event Resources from the Higher Education Academy/HEFCW Conference Improving retention and success: retaining students to and through higher education in Llandrindod Wells on 12 May 2010 are now available …
Images of law, law schools and legal education
institution from the outset. The literature on retention and non-completion (especially the work of Mantz Yorke) cites wrong choice of course, institution and location as three significant factors that can, individually or in combination, cause students to leave or affect their …
The future of the legal profession and learning: a view from practice
concern to practitioners is the lack of retention of knowledge or ‘black letter’ law, particularly in the case of contract and tort. Especially after a gap year or during their second or third seat, trainees’ recollection of the substantive law covered at…
Law Student 2000: the final questionnaire
level of stress that affects the level of retention or performance of our students. There does not seem to be a wide regional variation, so students attending universities outside the south east do not seem to have lower debt or work fewer hours. The stress level seems to be abo…
Induction: law and more
students settling in and thus (possibly) to retention, progression and completion did not see induction as a process of a few days at the beginning of Year 1 of a course, but as something which continued for most if not all of the first term or semester of Year 1 and which…
Will video kill the manuscript scrawl? The impact of video feedback on students’ perception of feedback
students. This will, in turn, help to improve retention of students, and tackle the recurring bugbear of the NSS. Presentation Short biographies of panel members Simon Sneddon is a Senior Lecturer in Law, and has been teaching at the University of Northampton since…
Not counting the judge: ruminations on the absence of 'real' lawyers at a conference
very respectable crew, ‘student retention’ might well need some additional rafts to accommodate all its punters – a surreptitious glance at my own sheet suggested I would be talking largely to myself. Had I any business participating in such a high …
Pathways to the Professions
project is intended to improve both the retention and attainment of students.…
The pleasures of age: a mid-term report on the nature of innovations and innovators
successful programme, measured by pass or retention rates as well as by the overall look and feel of the e-learning context, there appeared to be a strong correlation between the learning and the degree and kind of support offered to students. Evidence of this support can be fou…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
learning supporting the engagement and retention of students, in particular those studying part time, by accommodating flexible learning within the pressures of time and cost and building a sense of community supporting different learning different styles The notion of c…
Enhancing employability in law schools
designed to secure and improve good student retention rates. As part of this ongoing process a Level 4 core undergraduate module, Legal Skills and Process 1, has been modified during 2003-04, in terms of both content and delivery. First of all, the decision was taken at departme…
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