General transferable skills: selected bibliography

(Transcript 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 Course students
• Assiter A (1996) General transferable skills in higher education. London: Kogan Page
• Atkins B, Beattie J and Dockrell W (1993) Assessment issues in higher education Newcastle: School of Education, University of Newcastle
• Bell J (1996) ‘General transferable skills in the law curriculum’ Contemporary Issues in Law vol II no 1
• Brew and Dore (1996) ‘Developing personal skills and competences’ in_Capability_ vol 2 no 1 p44
• Duncan N (1997) The skill of learning: implications of the ACLEC first report for teaching skills on undergraduate law courses Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 5
• Hawkins P and Winter J (1995) Future graduate skills in the 21st century Warwick: Association of Graduate Recruiters
• Hogan A and Hort L (1988) ‘Setting objectives and assessing competence in professional legal education’ Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education vol 13 no 2 pp92-106
• Jeffcote R (1995) ‘Transferable skills and effective learning outcomes’ Capability vol 1 no 4
• Jessup G (1991) Outcomes: NVQs and the emerging model of education and training London: Falmer
• Jones P (1997) Lawyer’s skills London: Blackstone
• Jones P (1994) Competences, learning outcomes and legal education (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Legal Skills Working Papers)
• Laser G (1994) Educating for professional competence in the twenty first century International Yearbook of Law Computers and Technology
• Law Society of British Columbia (1995) Requirements for newly qualified lawyers

• Le Brun M and Johnstone R (1994) The quiet ®evolution: improving student learning in law Sydney: Law Book Company
• Monks K (1995) ‘Combining academic rigour and transferable skills: a business degree for the 1990s’ Education and Training vol 37 no 1 pp17-21
• Osborne P (1994) ‘Setting common minimum standards of computer competency for undergraduate lawyers’ Law and Technology Journal vol 3 pp21-23
• Shiner M (1997) _Entry into the legal profession _ (Law Society Research and Policy Planning Unit Research Study 25)
• Squires G (1990) First degree: the undergraduate curriculum London: Society for Research into Higher Education
• Toddington S (1996) ‘The emperor’s new skills: the academy, the profession and the idea of legal education’ in P Birks Pressing problems in the law

• Utley A (1997) ‘Graduates lack real world skills’ Times Higher Education Supplement 7 November p7
• Webb J (1995) Extending the theory/practice spiral: action research as a mechanism for crossing the academic professional divide Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 2
• Webb J and Maughan C (1996) Teaching lawyers skills London: Butterworths
• Wimpress J (1988) ‘Personal transferable skills: a career advisor’s viewpoint’Bulletin of Teaching and Learning September, pp8-10

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