Quality management and assurance at UKCLE

Graduate standards in law: the current practice of external examining

(Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) The comments below were made by a group of experienced externals at a workshop in Manchester. They illustrate the concerns...

Responding to the Training Framework Review: the UK Centre for Legal Education

The UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) is the subject centre for law of the Higher Education Academy, the UK-wide organisation set up to support law schools and lecturers in enhancing student...

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...

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 own...

Graduate standards in law: outcome statements for law degrees

A chart outlining outcome statements for law degrees can be downloaded below. It is a transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997.

Graduate standards in law: the way forward

(Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) We believe that any expert panel set up for law should seek to produce a range of acceptable frameworks within which a...

Graduate standards in law: outcomes

(Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) Criteria for standards Drawing on recent surveys and literature concerning law schools and confirmed by the meeting of...

UKCLE guide to subject review: appendices

preparatory activities for subject review aide-memoire for subject review – see Annex E of the QAA handbook reviewing student work observation of teaching and learning role of the facilitator –...

Key features of subject review

The self-evaluation document The self-evaluation document is the starting point for subject review and fulfils two important functions by: encouraging departments/schools to evaluate the quality...

Overview of subject review

The new methodology is based on a six year cycle, during which subject review is intended “to continuously update the picture that the Agency has of the institution”. The QAA argues that the new...

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 review...

Subject review judgements and reports

Judgements on academic standards The judgement on standards is a single, threshold judgement, of confidence or otherwise in standards, made after considering each of the following components:...

The subject review visit

Who reviews? Subject reviews are carried out by a team of subject specialist reviewers led by a review coordinator (who will not be a subject specialist). According to the QAA it is the subject...

Preparing for the visit

For those departments/schools that are to be visited (either because of an insufficiently high rating in a previous review or because of inclusion in a sample) much of the additional preparation for...

What is excellence in law teaching?

Each year many good and dedicated law teachers are nominated for the Law Teacher of the Year award – how does the judging panel decide between them? What do we value in a teacher and what is it that...

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...

Design your own QA system: programme specifications and quality assurance

John Bell, Cambridge University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on assuring quality in legaleducation, 11 February 2002 John’s presentation encouraged delegates to take advantage of the processes...

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 2002-03....

Graduate standards in law

Transcript of the Graduate standards in law report, a study into the feasibility of developing benchmark standards for law and the role of the external examiner in supporting this, conducted on...

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 institutions...

Graduate standards in law: methodology

(Transcript of a section of the Graduate standards in law report, 1997) The methodology involved preparatory work by a core group (John Bell, Phil Jones, Pat Leighton, Norma Martin Clement, Royston...

UKCLE guide to subject review

This guide, published in 2001, was intended to assist departments/schools of law preparing for subject review, a system of quality assurance which has now been replaced. However, the guide remains...

The self-evaluation document

The self-evaluation will be required approximately one month before commencement of the period (usually the academic year) in which the subject review will take place. If a review period commences...

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 assurance...

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...

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