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What is ‘research-led’ teaching in the context of the undergraduate law curriculum?
is a ‘taken for granted’ indicator of quality teaching. However there appears to be limited research on what this means in general and to what extent it impacts upon the teaching of law in parti…
Responding to the Training Framework Review: the UK Centre for Legal Education
be jeopardised if there is little or no quality assurance of the courses or programmes which equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills. The would-be entrants to the profession would ha…
Graduate standards in law: the current practice of external examining
3.5 7.5 4 are you able to judge the quality of the programme of study effectively from the evidence available? 1 4 8 2 do you have appropriate opportunity to affect decisions in the exami…
A more hit than miss report?
focus on the related issues of standards, quality assurance, and widening participation, though the scope of the report as a whole goes beyond those topics. Widening participation The report make…
Directions 18
Spring 2009…
What do lawyers do?
In this editorial for the Autumn 2008 issue of Directions Avrom Sherr, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Woolf Professor of Legal Education in the University of London, as well …
Out with the new and in with...?
method), academic review (the new method). The Quality Assurance Agency’s latest consultation paper heralded discussion of what may be referred to as ‘the future method’. The days o…
Testing year ahead for law schools and their staff
the stakes may be highest for the superior quality of some staff rather than the solid contributions of all or most. In many schools the sharp money is on entering only those staff who can be confide…
The subject review visit
gather evidence and to make judgements on the quality of education provided”. Subject specialist reviewers are drawn primarily from within HE and are trained by the QAA before their first rev…
Preparing for the visit
accuracy of marking and the consistency and quality of the feedback provided on the sample of work. This is a crucial task. See also Appendix V for details of the issues which reviewers conside…
Preparing for subject review
The process of preparing for subject review can be divided into several stages. For some departments/schools, if the former Secretary of State’s proposals for reducing the burden of subject …
Overview of subject review
an institution’s ability to assure quality and standards, the intensity of scrutiny will be less. This ‘lighter touch’ will, it is argued by the QAA, be achieved through the fo…
Key features of subject review
by: encouraging departments/schools to evaluate the quality of learning opportunities and standards achieved providing a framework for subject review through the testing of the statements made …
UKCLE guide to subject review: appendices
standards, dealing with the different aspects of quality of learning opportunities) provision of briefing documentation including key QAA documents advice sessions from current QAA subject review…
Quality enhancement the Scottish way
The approach to quality assurance in Scotland adopted in 2003 differs from elsewhere in the UK in several ways. The key is the prioritisation of enhancement over assurance and diversity over complian…
Graduate standards in law: background and aims
(Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) Law departments have traditionally felt distinctive and have often felt less than comfortable with pressures within their …
Teaching legal ethics: references
List of references from Teaching legal ethics in context, a guide to teaching legal ethics by Alwyn Jones (De Montfort University). Arthurs H (1998) ‘Why Canadian law schools do not teach …
Meeting the QAA code of practice for assessment
the 18 precepts for assessment from the Quality Assurance Agency’s code of practice and provides recommendations as to how to meet them. Below are prefaced versions of the 18 precepts, i…
External examining in law
examiner has held a central position in the quality assurance systems in UK universities, but recent research and discussions have raised questions about the appropriate role of the external examiner…
The National Student Survey
set up in 2005 to gather feedback on the quality of undergraduate courses and help potential students compare subjects and universities. The survey asks final year students to provide feedback in t…
The 2002 quality framework in England
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the body responsible for the assessment of the quality of higher education in the UK, introduced a new system of institutional audit in England from 2002-0…
Graduate standards in law: a framework for describing graduateness in law
A framework for describing graduateness in law (Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) The project has identified four issues which need to be tackled by instituti…
Enhancing quality in legal education
Researching quality enhancement We have identified quality and standards as priority areas for research funding during 2009-10. This may include research into external examining and the National St…
Design your own QA system: programme specifications and quality assurance
University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on assuring quality in legal education, 11 February 2002 John’s presentation encouraged delegates to take advantage of the processes developed a…
UKCLE guide to subject review
law preparing for subject review, a system of quality assurance which has now been replaced. However, the guide remains a useful tool for law schools examining their quality assurance processes…
The self-evaluation document
clear about the rubric (consult your central quality team if in any doubt) share drafts widely: within the department with students with trusted external colleagues with central service p…
Review of the Legal Practice Course
In 2001 the Law Society of England and Wales initiated a review of the framework for training solicitors, under a process known initially as the Training Framework Review. The new Legal Practice Cour…
Graduate standards in law
Project commissioned by the Higher Education Quality Council (now merged into the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) to examine the feasibility of two of its principal recommendations;…
Quality assurance in higher education
For an introduction to the quality assurance system see Universities UK’s Quality and standards in UK universities: a guide to how the system works (covers all parts of the UK). The quality a…
A new framework for work-based learning: UKCLE response
intentions of this reform to enhance the quality of learning in training. The issue here turns largely on what the consultation intends when it uses the term ‘portfolio’. We suggest the scheme …
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