subject: Isn't this what University was for? [print this page] Isn't this just what University had been for?
Three years of extensive lectures, gruelling exams and many late nights involving studying five-hundred page textbooks when in need of sleep, covering countless pages and pages of scribbled notes and lastly graduating...after that being told...i'm sorry we can not assist you with any training here.
This is just what a rush of hopeful solicitors are now being told in advance of when they are able to to commence their occupational training.
There exists a rush of ambitious solicitors and lawyers that are flooding into the legal field, however after having to pay a large amount of money and completing an additional study course (the Legal Practice Course (LPC)) are now being informed there aren't any work opportunities out there.
As much of The united kingdom remains in an job slump it really is easy to understand that there are a small number work opportunities obtainable, nevertheless how come all these hopefuls spending money on a training course that won't only land them in the unemployment line but additionally leave them in a sum of debt?
The Law Society are currently thinking about if it might be really worth them developing an aptitude examination to improve new solicitors prospects of having a position within the legal profession.
It has surfaced that the Law Society has hired an external specialist in order to examine whether or not it should follow the Bar Standards Board.
The exam would likely help stop students from accumulating incurring substantial costs of up to 12,500, when using the bar professional training course costing much more, in return for very little reward and permit law offices the possibility to benefit from maximised training.
This aptitude test is among many initiatives being executed and also tohelp leading London solicitors to fish out the best of the best.
The Law Society has also stated that this aptitude test would indeed prove that hopefuls have enough knowledge but more to the point the understanding of what they have learnt at university. They also desire to present incentives to firms in order that they can take on students, whilst making sure that they're definitely not under qualified.
Many additionally claim the fact that the Law Society has taken a lot of time to get at this point for the reason that the Bar has been focusing on numerous tests of which assess analytical as well as critical reasoning and also fluency in English that happen to be crucial abilities that this rush of aspirant solicitors will need, since '08.
Without doubt any kind of test needs to be developed with care if it is not to enforce a filter to entry. The Office of Fair Trading a year ago stopped the bar from setting an exam as it ended up being considered overly restrictive and anti-competitive due to the probable impact that it would likely generate in decreasing a number of applicants going through the bar training course.
It's possible to reason that isn't this what university is for? Indeed it is but many solicitors planning to secure a foot on the job ladder and discovering it increasingly hard to understand and put into practice what they have learnt. If they introduce the fluency test as the Bar has formerly done it will mean a large number of English communicating lawyers or solicitors are able take into consideration clients needs.
It will likewise make it possible for those hopefuls the chance of securing a training position with regard to their vocational training.
The Bar is currently still piloting these types of assessments and making appropriate changes regularly. The LPC test would be for the Solicitors Regulation Authority to approve and introduce.
