Tag: SQE Hub News

‘The low SQE pass rate has me stressing’
One aspiring lawyer is eager to know what the most challenging part is and why

SRA still unable to confirm timeline for revealing SQE provider pass rates
Crucial comparison data was due by the end of 2023

Who is claiming the biggest slice of the SQE prep market pie?
As a major law firm overhauls its SQE partnership, Legal Cheek assesses the battle for law school dominance

Competition: Win an SQE scholarship by explaining the must-have skill for lawyers
Half-price SQE1 course courtesy of BARBRI

Reed Smith goes all in with College of Legal Practice for the SQE
Barbri loses out as firm relaunches training programme

SQE1 pass rate drops to just 44%
Lowest success rate so far

Training contract, apprenticeship, self-fund SQE or paralegal – which route into the profession should I take?
Aspiring solicitor seeks help

‘Has anyone tried to negotiate a bigger SQE maintenance grant?’
Aspiring lawyer worries about making ends meet

SQE2 pass rate rises again to 79%
Over 2,000 aspiring lawyers sat latest exams

Over a quarter of small and medium law firms yet to adopt SQE
Nearly half cite lack of info for not switching

‘Enormous opportunity missed’: Law school chief hits out at ethnicity attainment gap report
City Law School's James Catchpole questions exclusion of SQE students in long-awaited research

Why it’s not too late to save the SQE
Legal education godfather Professor Nigel Savage has a plan

Students report difficulties getting QWE signed off
Lack of understanding among employers

SQE-you-later: Will the recent exam blunder deter future lawyers?
Law student Dara Antova gives her verdict on the Kaplan marking debacle

SRA eyes £66 million SQE income next year
More than double previous year

SQE2 pass rate climbs to 73%
Over 870 aspiring lawyers completed latest sitting

Queen Mary and BARBRI create Russell Group’s first solicitor apprenticeship pathway
London uni in early talks with possible partner firms

Independent review confirms reissued SQE1 results are correct
Kaplan drafted in top statistician after 175 students were incorrectly told they had failed

A&O Shearman confirms £20k SQE support grant
Increase on both firms' pre-merger offerings

SQE blunder: £250 goodwill payment ‘does not begin to repair the damage’, says Junior Lawyers Division
Could request super regulator investigation