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From pupil to professional: is pupillage fit for purpose?
& Training Committee), Andrea Clerk (BSB Pupillage Officer) and Valerie Shrimplin (Head of Education Standards at the BSB) introduced the Bar Standards Board’s review of the pupillage stage of training for the Bar. Following the 2008 Review of the Bar Vocational Cour…
Perspectives on professional formation: apprenticeship, pupillage and the assessed year in employment
supervision. Bar graduates undertake a period of pupillage in the Bar Library while newly qualified solicitors complete their apprenticeships. Turning to social work education, an assessed year in employment (AYE) was introduced as part of a package of training reforms announc…
Back to the future - not rocket science: some thoughts on 20 years of consultations on the future of the BVC and pupillage
Women Barristers’ discussion paper on pupillage (Kaul 2005), which, by at last looking at the broad picture, picked out the one macro issue which in fact drives all the micro tinkering with the BVC and the emotion surrounding that and deferral of call (which thanks to the …
From law undergraduate to professional practice
Standards Board) Derek Wood QC (Chiar, Pupillage Review Working Group of the Bar Standards Board) Dr John Carrier (Chair, Bar Standards Board, Education & Training Committee) Dr Valerie Shrimplin (Head of Education Standards, Bar Standards Board) Format Paper presen…
Papers presented at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008
consultations on the future of the BVC and pupillage – Frances Burton (University of the West of England) Designing student learning by promoting formative assessment – Alison Bone (University of Brighton) The Government of Wales Act 2006: the challenges for lega…
Legal education in Northern Ireland
professional formation: apprenticeship, pupillage and the assessed year in employment at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010 in January. As part of our nations strategy UKCLE supports activities of a country specific nature: Events programme – we aim to organise…
General transferable skills: student perceptions
when students fail to obtain articles or pupillage after professional courses many will seek to engage in some para-legal work in the hope of developing a legal career. There is thus a problem of persuading them at the academic or vocational stages that skills that are not …
Bar Professional Training Course
needed for the more specialised training of pupillage. The course may be taken either full or part time – for further information and details of providers see the BVC section of the Bar Standards Board website or the Law Careers.net course search page. AllAboutLaw̵…
Law Student 2000: prelude to the finale
had not applied for a training contract or pupillage. The big problem for graduates is the level of debt they take with them when they receive their degree certificate. This project has seen a ‘debt creep’ – students have said that they anticipate a higher le…
Consultation on deferral of call to the Bar - UKCLE response
call to the Bar until after completion of pupillage, and what evidence is there which is relevant in answering this question? The key issues for consideration are whether deferral of call would have a significantly detrimental effect on diversity at and access to the Bar…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009: Concepts of culture in legal education
collaborative system of external examining and on pupillages – read Jess Guth’s conference reflections. The five parallel sessions, including a total of 42 papers, were based around the following themes: the culture of legal education – organising princi…
General transferable skills: project rationale
students than there are training contracts or pupillages, meaning that graduates of both law degrees and the vocational stage have to adapt and apply themselves to different career paths, whether in the short or long term. Statistics for finding out what alternative car…
Learning law in Northern Ireland
the course, taking the form of a 12 month pupillage. Postgraduate study See the LLM Guide for details of masters level courses in Northern Ireland.…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
consultations on the future of the BVC and pupillage – Frances Burton (University of the West of England) Designing student learning by promoting formative assessment – Alison Bone (University of Brighton) The Government of Wales Act 2006: the challenges for lega…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
20 years of consultation on the BVC and pupillage – Frances Burton (University of the West of England) read full paper The LLB – Academic? Vocational? Both? Does it matter? Is evolution in vocational education changing the law degree? – panel session chaired …
Can the traditional law curriculum be delivered via clinical and experiential learning?
apprenticeship stage (training contract or pupillage). A compartmentalised approach towards student development tends to lead to separation of learning and teaching methodologies and priorities. Legal practice tends to be all but ignored during the academic stage of legal educat…
Research and reaction: bodies and PCs
speak to their sponsors, to prospective pupillage supervisors and others in their Inns and at Cumberland Lodge, and they complained about the value of the course with particular reference to the student directed classes. These complaints were fed through to the Bar Council and p…
General transferable skills: context
take up the 4000 traineeships and the 800 pupillages available. Thus, in crude terms, there are only training and pupillage places for 33% of LLB and CPE graduates. Although there may be more of a balance between supply and demand at the end of the vocational stage, the im…
Papers and posters presented at the 2010 conference
professional formation: apprenticeship, pupillage and the assessed year in employment – Gillian McGaughey (Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast) Interdisciplinary learning for the work-based student – Caroline Coles (De Mo…
New lawyers - new horizons? What kind of lawyers do we need?
shakeout at every material stage – pupillage, tenancy and within the first three or four years, particularly in criminal practice where there is just not enough work to go round. We also know that Carter is likely to reduce still further the earnings of senior criminal sil…
Holistic legal education? Integrating the academic and vocational stage
go straight into a training contract or pupillage. The degree is currently the only one of its kind in England and Wales. How it operates Educational philosophy The underlying philosophy of the exempting degree is that students’ understanding of legal rules and princ…
Interdisciplinary training
year at the Institute before commencing pupillage, with training in practice and procedure in a wide range of subjects and extensive skills training, including advocacy and case analysis. There are mock trials within most of the subject areas. Most of the time the witnesses are …
Facing the challenges of transition to legal education while engaging the learner
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 decline, at least in the short term as the recession bites, so the student experience of those who do commit …
Practice makes perfect: use of practitioner led mooting to develop and enhanced student centred learning experience
student during the training contract or pupillage interviewing process. To round off I would suggest a straightforward interactive exercise, which gives students both a flavour of what mooting involves together with some guidance and feedback on the basic skills required. Distri…
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