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 Student Survey.

See the Project Development Fund page for further details or contact Tracey Varnava on: t.varnava@warwick.ac.uk.

UKCLE aims to provide information on quality enhancement in higher education, including the latest from the professional bodies on quality issues. We also maintain a mini-site on external examining in law and provide background information on the National Student Survey.

Quality assurance

• Quality assurance in higher education – key information on the quality assurance system for UK higher education, including links to the academic infrastructure and reviews and reports of law schools
• The 2002 quality framework in England – overview of the quality assurance system introduced in England during 2002
• Quality enhancement the Scottish way – overview of the quality assurance system for higher education in Scotland
• Graduate standards in law (1997) – report to examine the feasibility of developing benchmark standards for law
• Student engagement: what’s it all about? – presentations and films from a Quality Assurance Agency event on held in June 2009

The following resources outline approaches to quality assurance for law teachers:

• Design your own QA system: programme specifications and quality assurance – how to use programme specifications as part of an internal quality assurance system, by John Bell (Cambridge University)
• Meeting the QAA code of practice for assessment – guidance note by Alison Bone (University of Brighton)
• UKCLE guide to subject review for law teachers (2001) – guide to the subject review process, which remains a useful tool for law schools examining their quality assurance processes

Last Modified: 4 June 2010