Professionalism in higher education: important not only for lawyers

New Barristers’ Information Literacy Challenges as They Transition from Education to the Workplace

“…Moreover, the BPTC, designed to prepare for work, does not officially include research training (Haines, 2010), a fact criticised by students, new barristers and law librarians alike. This issue harks back to the apparent crisis in legal education discussed in the literature review, for instance by Coe and Dagilyte (2014) who highlight that legal education needs to focus on hard and soft skills.…”

Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law: Volume 1: England

“…While extensive simulation is neither a signature pedagogy nor a signature assessment in law in the sense that it is for business or medical education, it nevertheless is another heuristic with strong assessment dimensions. 22 The work of the Glasgow Graduate School of Law at the University of Strathclyde with SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment) demonstrated in research and practice how simulation could be used to assess knowledge, skills and values, and in both assessments of individual students' work and assessments of the work of groups of students. 23 There are 19 See, for example, Rosemary Hunter (2012) 'Introduction: Feminist Judgments as Teaching Resources' The Law Teacher, 46:3, 214-26 at 219-20, doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2012.732364.…”

Legal skills and the SQE: confronting the challenge head on

“…Dagilyte and Coe argue that 'higher education needs to be combined with skills and values training to prepare graduates that are fit both for non-legal employment, as well as for professional legal training.' 59 The planned introduction of the SQE means that, potentially from 2020, students will be assessed in the skills of legal writing and practical legal research and in professional conduct in stage 1 of the SQE 60 . The proposed skills assessment will last for three hours and will consist of two tasks.…”