Tag: SQE
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Pressing Problems, second parallel session
Caroline Gibby first, on ‘SQEixt: where do we go from here? The careful roar from the North’. Caroline asked what’s good, what’s bad about the SQE. There is a lot of confusion about SQE 1. There’s inconsistency regarding the Bar’s approach to it. Management often doesn’t understand the issues that are often quite complex; and…
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LETR conference: reflections
I said in my first conference post that I was hoping for the conference to help me understand LETR’s continuing significance, if any. I left with more questions in my mind about LETR’s purpose, but also a sense that what we co-authors made of it was at least in parts enduring beyond the five-year…
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Common entrance exams and the SQE: the wrong story
The SQE is the Solicitors Qualifying Exam in England and Wales. It’s an example of a common entrance examination, something a number of legal education regulators are interested in, or already practising. I was discussing it last night in downtown Toronto, at Osgoode Professional Development, in the context of legal education generally, asking nine questions of…
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SLS PBL workshop, session 2: Refreshing PBL @ York
Post-lunch, Scott Slorach presented two projects. Project 1: York Pedagogy, a project on programme level outcomes, to be aligned with YLS curriculum refresh. Scott in interested in Advanced PBL Case Studies: increased complexity of facts, issues and law, and the use of PBL ‘outputs as a stepping stone. This would be an option as against…