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New challenges in the UK legal Education Landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law Teacher
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posted on 2020-04-08, 13:19 authored by M Canto-LopezA recent series of changes in Higher Education in general, and legal education, in
particular, are altering the environment in which law teachers in the UK are used to
work. This paper will mention two particular initiatives: on the one hand, the Teaching
Excellence Framework (TEF) a Government and market focussed scheme to drive up
the standard of teaching and to provide information to students about the best provision
of teaching. On the other hand, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) new
proposed Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). The SQE is also entangled in market
forces, employability and consumer choices, it pretends to end with the inconsistencies
in law degrees and trainings offered at the moment; and to help social mobility in the
profession. Both initiatives have been received with opposition by many parties that
contend their reasons and data are flawed. In any case, both initiatives are affecting law
teachers that as a consequence have lately being faced with new demands by students,
employers and university managers. We conclude with the assertion that nowadays in
the UK many law teachers are confronted with many pressures, numerous unanswered
questions and no space to voice their concerns on a rapidly changing legal education
landscape.
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CANTO-LÓPEZ, MARIBEL. New challenges in the UK legal education landscape: TEF, SQE AND the Law teacher. Revista Jurídica de Investigación e Innovación Educativa ( REJIE Nueva Época), [S.l.], n. 18, p. 11-30, july 2018. ISSN 1989-8754. Available at: . Date accessed: 08 apr. 2020. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/REJIE.2018.v0i18.5054.Version
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Revista Juridica de Investigacion e Innovacion EducativaVolume
volume 18Issue
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11 - 30 (20)Publisher
Servicios Academicos IntercontinentalesAcceptance date
2017-12-29Available date
2018-07-06Publisher DOI
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