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Delivering high quality legal education at a time of change

ULaw’s director of business development, Morette Jackson, reflects on the past year and her hopes for a people-focused approach to law and education in the year ahead

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Why students should take an SQE prep course

Nottingham Law School’s Rachel Rowley and Professor Paula Moffatt discuss the importance of choosing a law school that will provide you with a rounded professional legal education

7 days ago
Law schools welcome first SQE students as SRA ‘looks closely’ at online exam options in light of COVID

Regulator remains hopeful assessment will go ahead in November as planned

Jan 20 2021 11:45am
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Flexi training contract specialist launches SQE scholarship for Black aspiring lawyers

Accutrainee’s diversity initiative sees it team up with City outfits including CMS

Jan 19 2021 11:22am
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How should non-law students prepare for the SQE?

BARBRI managing director, Sarah Hutchinson, explains how universities and law firms should advise aspiring lawyers from non-law backgrounds on their future qualification path

Jan 14 2021 10:30am
Speakers announced for The SQE Sessions

28 January virtual event marks super-exam launch year; speakers include key figures from law firms and legal education

Jan 13 2021 10:32am

Legal training provider reveals £2,890 SQE1 online prep course

Law Training Centre enters super-exam training market

Jan 5 2021 11:44am
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First-ever SQE exam dates announced

SQE1 to take place on 8 and 11 November 2021, with SQE2 in April 2022

Dec 29 2020 9:31am
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SQE examiner hit by ‘cheating’ outbreak

Kaplan acknowledges ‘attempted’ cheating on foreign lawyer exam it also runs

Dec 21 2020 12:30pm
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How innovation is shaking up the legal sector

Lawyers and legal education experts share their experiences from the frontline of legal tech

Dec 18 2020 11:55am
Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms

SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime

Dec 11 2020 12:08pm
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What will the SQE mean for me?

Legal education experts from BARBRI, Flex Legal, Reed Smith and Squire Patton Boggs discuss the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and how it is expected to shake up legal training

Dec 10 2020 10:13am

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The future of tech in legal education

Tracy Savage, BARBRI’s academic head of UK programmes, discusses how the provider is using tech within its new SQE prep course and the skills lawyers of the future need to succeed

Dec 7 2020 12:45pm
Nottingham Law School reveals SQE prep courses

Fees still unknown

Dec 7 2020 9:38am
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Meet the City lawyer using tech to tackle clients’ problems

Nick Pryor, innovation solutions director for EMEA at BCLP, discusses his journey from commercial litigation to driving strategic change for the firm’s Innovation team

Dec 3 2020 1:18pm
Law school enters SQE market with £3k prep course

QLTS School package covers both SQE1 and SQE2; with exam fees it will slash total cost of qualifying as a solicitor to just over £7k; students can pay more for additional support

Dec 1 2020 1:19pm
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Successfully preparing for the SQE assessments

Top tips and advice from the experts at QLTS School

Nov 26 2020 10:17am
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Top career tips for the next generation of aspiring lawyers

Paul de la Peña, tutor at ULaw Moorgate, reflects on his career as an insolvency and restructuring specialist and offers advice to the next gen of solicitors

Nov 23 2020 12:39pm

KPMG teams up with BPP to offer SQE training contract

Big Four player embraces solicitor training shake-up

Nov 16 2020 11:56am
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How one training provider is preparing for the SQE

BARBRI’s Victoria Cromwell on the steps her team are taking as the super-exam nears roll-out

Nov 11 2020 1:42pm
BARBRI strikes SQE partnership with flexi-paralegal service

5,000 paralegals to have access to SQE scholarships and fee discounts

Nov 6 2020 10:56am