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General transferable skills: Staffordshire University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Undergraduate. Specific skills module or integration of skills? Both integrated and specific. LLB Year 1: legal study and critique module includes legal research and IT skills. In …
General transferable skills: Nottingham Trent University
Strategy and target group Skills are seen as transferable and are presented as such. Skills training is developed throughout the three year degree. Specific skills module or integration of skills? There is a legal skills programme throughout the course and a compulsory …
General transferable skills: University of Huddersfield
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (LLB year 1) The importance of a skills course for all students embarking on the first year of the LLB programme has been recognised for approximately ten years. The first year skills …
General transferable skills: University of Bristol
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Skills that students learn are generic and whilst learned in a legal context are applicable to other disciplines. The formats of skills and general teaching are developed within each individual core unit to refl…
General transferable skills: Bournemouth University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group In developing the legal skills programme within the LLB (Hons) Business Law degree it is recognised that transferable skills are key. Since the study of law in itself requires subjec…
General transferable skills: College of Law, York
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The principal target group is the Legal Practice Course (LPC) student group (postgraduate). Although skills are explicitly taught as part of the training for legal practice, students …
General transferable skills: University of Exeter
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) Throughout skills teaching it is emphasised that the general vocational skills can relate to both non legal and legal careers. The skills are integrated in the substantive l…
General transferable skills: Leeds Metropolitan University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The school of law provides three relevant courses; the LLB, the Postgraduate Diploma in Law (PGDL) and the Legal Practice Course (LPC). It is also involved in delivering a law acces…
General transferable skills: Lancaster University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) Students are encouraged to think about the skills that they have and the extent to which they are developing those skills through all courses offered by the law department. …
General transferable skills: University of Reading
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The approach is based on students participating through active learning rather than teaching. The department devises a range of different situations where students need to use variou…
General transferable skills: University of Birmingham
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic stage) Many skills necessary to proceed through the degree are beneficial for many other careers such as the ability to read, think and argue. When developing students’…
General transferable skills: University of Essex
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Developing transferable skills provides students with deeper understanding of substantive law and with academic stimulus and motivation, as well as preparing them for the world of work…
General transferable skills: autonomy and personal skills
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student who is self reliant and is able to: deal with the unexpected match individual skills with that required in a particular situation accept and provide constructive fee…
General transferable skills: University of Nottingham
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The department views its primary purpose as being to educate students and to assist them in the development of their intellectual and legal skills. Although a significant pr…
General transferable skills: Southampton Institute
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The approach is integrative, in that skills should not be divorced from teaching of substantive knowledge. There is recognition that students enter a variety of profession …
General transferable skills: University of Manchester
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Specific skills module or integration of skills? Some skills taught in legal methods course but most are integrated. Information technology is taught in a university wide programme. Manchester offers a first …
General transferable skills: problem solving
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: identify issues, assimilating, evaluating, and analysing information as a product of independent or group research offer a practical solution making effect…
General transferable skills: City Law School
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The main course offered by the City Law School is the Bar Vocational Course (BVC). Students taking this course will already have a law degree or a CPE/Diploma in Law. Staff at…
General transferable skills: De Montfort University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic: LLB and BA Honours) There is an emphasis on general preparation throughout the university by means of the institution’s personal transferable skills initiative. All de…
General transferable skills: assessment models
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Passport scheme Personal transferable skills certificate Free-standing compulsory skills module within the law degree Competency-based degree programme Passport scheme Characteristics integr…
General transferable skills: selected bibliography
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) ACLEC (Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct) (1996) First report on legal education and training AGCAS (1995) Creative jobsearch strategies for Legal Practice Cou…
General transferable skills: project participants
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Core group John Bell, University of Leeds Joy Hillyer, College of Law Jennifer Johnstone (Project Assistant), University of Leeds Phil Jones, University of Sheffield Hilary Moxon, Leeds Metropolitan Un…
General transferable skills: project rationale
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Significant changes are occuring both in the market for legal services and the concept of a career in law. Law schools are producing a considerably higher number of law students than there are training contrac…
The Leeds integrated skills model
Leeds) presented an outline of an integrated skills learning environment developed within Leeds law school, its relationship to the wider ‘Leeds for Life’ university skills initiative and the impact these have had on students. Download Neil’s full paper at th…
General transferable skills: Aston University
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The courses offered are a BSc Law with Legal Practice Management and a BSc Managerial and Administrative Studies (Law Stream). In terms of skills the approach is to focus on learnin…
General transferable skills: University of the West of England
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Looking to co-ordinate a matrix approach to skills with each subject being allocated or taking responsibility for particular skills. They are trying to integrate and develop more thos…
General transferable skills: student perceptions
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The project wanted to test the notions of general transferable skills developed in consultation with academic staff against the experience of recent graduates. To this end, a questionnaire survey was conducted o…
Developing research skills
analysis of the need for advanced research skills and led a discussion on tools and techniques to encourage critical thinking. Caroline’s slides are embedded below. Caroline’s teaching seeks to meet the challenges of a skills gap between the increasing complexity…
General transferable skills
the development of general transferable skills. The Law Discipline Network was led by John Bell and Jennifer Johnstone of the University of Leeds. The term ‘general transferable skills’ is a label used to describe attributes of graduates that are not specific to t…
General transferable skills: University of Leeds
of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The department has adopted a statement of the competences of a law student, which identifies a range of outcomes which a model graduating law student should be good at. Apart from k…
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