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Ladders 2 Law: e-mentoring aspiring lawyers
Brightside Trust, consists of a weblog-based mentoring programme and the Ladders 2 Law library, with news items, careers advice and features. For further information on the Ladders 2 Law project contact Tracy Sacks on e-mail: tracy.sacks@thebrightsidetrust.org. Law is an inc…
Peer mentoring for international students
initiative has been the setting up of a peer mentoring scheme, merging a community of students with similar interests and purpose to achieve better social and academic integration. Richard Owen (University of Glamorgan) reports: Shamini presented her experiences piloting a m…
Peer assisted learning: the mentor's experience
University) led a discussion of the role of mentoring in peer assisted learning. Sue and Bryan’s slides are embedded below. Following a brief introduction to peer assisted learning (PAL) and the role of the PAL leader mentor participants had the opportunity to talk to …
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…
Widening participation in legal education
studies Ladders 2 Law – profile of an e-mentoring programme for students from non-privileged backgrounds interested in a career in law Pathways to the Professions – article on an initiative at the University of Edinburgh aimed at encouraging pupils from a wide…
National Law Students Forum 2010
societies, social events with staff and student mentoring schemes. Students produced a variety of posters outlining good practice from their own institutions, or good ideas that they thought would be worth implementing. The evening dinner provided the perfect opportunity fo…
Enhancing employability in law schools
employability, such as community work, student mentoring, representation on committees – these activities are ‘certificated’. On the Legal Practice Course (LPC) we were the first provider to introduce mentoring, and have a successful network of employer ment…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
involving law alumni and the legal profession in mentoring and buddy programmes, as judges in competitions and in giving seminars. Law Support – providing tools for staff, easy access to university-wide information and forms, stronger links to the wider teaching community, a…
Increasing potential for success in legal practice -some empirically derived insights from new lawyers
right balance between autonomy and close mentoring and supervision, and in particular having exposure to ‘dramatic learning events’ Recognising that legal practice is not just a rational and rule-based activity, but one that involves persistent uncertainty about their…
The firm as a new actor in legal education: implications for lawyers' identity formation
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 role of the firm in the …
Law Society helps combat the cost of qualification
widespread. The Law Society is also developing a mentoring scheme to help students from non -traditional backgrounds break through to the profession. As the Chief Executive of the Law Society Janet Paraskeva explains: There are many people with the intelligence and commi…
Enhancing the employability of law graduates
and the Disability Law Service. A unique mentoring scheme has been created with the City firm Simmons & Simmons, whereby law students are paired with a solicitor to gain an insight into working in a City law firm. 89 students have participated in LAGREN’s customised …
Indebted to the experience: community engagement and the inspired law student
students through active learning and cascade mentoring. This project contributes towards the scholarship of learning law as it offers an easy and sustainable method to make a difference in the community. This paper asks whether such projects which offer students a 3D perspective…
Supporting postgraduates who teach: learning from our experience
observation schemes operating for teaching staff. Mentoring systems could (and should?) include all postgraduates. Education development units and learning and teaching co-ordinators within departments know who is teaching and can make support available, but our participants rep…
Are your students bore-ing?
Law, For Sale/Wanted, Prospective Students, Mentoring and City Only. Sees the most traffic during revision time when everyone compares notes whilst panicking, but is used for the following types of queries too: What was that case Prof X kept going on about in the crime lecture t…
After the shock has passed...the reality sets in!
cohort in what is commonly called a ‘mentoring’ or ‘peer assisted learning’ type of role, but which I would prefer to call a ‘skills exchange’, where students have timetabled sessions at which they pass on to those in the year below the skills…
Was it necessary to go all the way to Australia?
As mentee, I learnt from Bill’s mentoring through our many dialogues. “Who ever heard Socrates saying “I know something and teach it”? He used to send people off in different directions.” — (Fer…
Widening participation: the changing agenda
students also work with these groups, providing mentoring and support with GCSE work, to ensure the young people get the grades they need to carry on with study post16. As lecturers increasingly find themselves engaging in this work, there needs to be recognition from their inst…
Examples of good practice in recruitment and retention
year module on effective learning, with a mentoring elective open to students who had completed the module. At the end of the first year of the programme 11% of the ‘flying start’ students had dropped out compared with 22% in the control group. The students passed wi…
Papers presented at 2009 Conference
(National University of Singapore) Peer mentoring for international students – Shamini Ragavan (Newcastle University) Enquiring Minds: strategies for promoting (better) research, autonomy and deployment of skills at level 3 – Keith Puttick, Rhonda Hammond-Sharlot…
Pathways to the Professions
student attending tutorials and lectures mentoring – students registered with Pathways are mentored by a current law undergraduate during their last year at school and also during the first year of their studies one to one pre-application guidance for prospective stude…
It's SIMPLE: the SIMulated Professional Learning Environment
implementation enhanced monitoring and mentoring functions welcomed differing expectations in terms of the look and feel of the software hosting the platform creates challenges Relating to students: benefits included enhanced professional skills, a heightened awar…
The art of the impossible: the practicalities of being a new law teacher
needs. Dealing with students: crowd control and mentoring I had not given student behaviour all that much thought when I began teaching. I was quite surprised to find that students seemed to think nothing of walking in very late, that mobile phones were routinely used in lec…
Time for reflection but deserving a response
for many trainees. Increased emphasis upon mentoring and external assessment would offer considerable improvement. Again, the obstacles to adopting such an approach are surmountable, but will require considerable investment in new expertise and resources from firms and a cohort …
Retrospectoring: the development and success of the Vocational Teachers Forum
value on coaching strategies and individual mentoring, probably not agree with the anti-process approach of the accountants, and be challenged by the proposals for revalidation of practitioners (and teachers) facing the medical profession. But I’m getting ahead of myself. If…
The competence of striving to be more than competent
its focus. The quality of supervision, mentoring and feedback will depend very much on the ethos of the firm and the personality of the supervisor. The employer becomes an additional stakeholder in the individual’s development, with all that that implies in terms of choi…
Transition management in a large law school: a module-based solution
should also be given to integrating peer mentoring, as the input of peers may be seen as more credible and accessible. In programmes with a significant international recruitment this needs to be acknowledged and reflected in the arrangements for transition management, as there…
Back to the future - not rocket science: some thoughts on 20 years of consultations on the future of the BVC and pupillage
the take up of suitable degrees, promoting mentoring and local links with Chambers, circuits and specialist Bar Associations and funded, and much shorter, mini-pupillages, to provide a larger number of work placements. The report suggests a Bar Council appointed coordinator in …
The Tao of Professionalism
supervision. She provides instruction and mentoring to the students, who are fully responsible for representing clients in administrative and courtroom proceedings. Bridgit’s work includes instruction on disability rights issues and lawyering skills.…
More humane but less human?
assist new recruits to academia, for example mentoring, induction programmes, teaching evaluation, peer review, encouragement to undertake teaching qualifications or other job related skills enhancement. Although it is often not enough or comes at the wrong time, it is at least …
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