Tag: Solicitors Qualifying Examination

‘Get on with it — uncertainty costs’, SQE co-creator tells regulators at LegalEdCon North
Crispin Passmore warns against super-exam delay

Top law lecturers express urgent concerns over SQE as they call on regulator to delay roll-out
Too much uncertainty for uni-hopefuls to make 'educated decision', says Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools

How Manchester Law School is helping to bring about a new industrial revolution in legal services
For Professor Andrew Francis the SQE is just one part of a much bigger story

How the SQE shifts power from law firms to students
‘No longer can a law firm dangle a training contract in front of paralegals or insist that getting a job in a firm’s onshore centre is not a route to qualifying’

SRA to make decision on SQE1 skills assessment in New Year
Feedback from spring pilot advised it be ditched

BARBRI ramps up SQE preparations with acquisition of legal training provider Kaplan Altior
Solicitor super-exam ambitions underlined

EXCLUSIVE: Former bosses of ULaw and Kaplan combine with magic circle duo to launch new ‘challenger’ law school
They’re targeting the SQE market

Super-exam could damage ‘credibility’ of solicitor qualification, junior lawyers warn
JLD urges super-regulator to think carefully before giving new exam final sign-off

Exclusive: City law firm ‘consortium’ prepares to appoint super-exam prep course provider
Linklaters latest to join influential group

SRA seeks law students and lawyers to sit SQE2 pilot
Cash and work placements up for grabs

Incoming Exeter Law School chief: Super-exam pilot ‘obscures as much as it reveals’
SQE 1 performance reports lack technical detail, argues Professor Richard Moorhead -- but regulator insists new exam will meet 'high standards'

Junior lawyers seek to have approval of the SQE overturned
Letter to Justice Committee aims to skewer super-exam

Arden University registers as SQE prep provider
Ex-BPP chief's new outfit prepares to deliver super-exam course

Profession prepares for big changes in training of lawyers
Scrapping of LPC, shift to apprenticeships and focus on tech prompt enthusiasm and anxiety in equal measure

The SQE and the challenges ahead
ULaw’s director of business development, Morette Jackson, reveals how law firms are reacting to the new solicitor super-exam

Trainees risk ‘exploitation’ under super-exam, junior lawyers warn
Regulator urged to reinstate mandatory minimum salary -- again

How one law school is preparing for the biggest shake-up to legal education in a generation
Andrew Chadwick, dean of BPP University Law School, discusses the SQE, technology and the opportunities ahead

Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students' best route to solicitor qualification

Junior lawyers question legal watchdog’s ‘refusal criteria’ following SQE approval
Super-exam was given go-ahead by LSB despite calls to delay