New challenges in the UK Legal Education landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law Teacher
A 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...
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teaching excellence framework (tef) solicitors qualifying exam (sqe) marketisation of higher education students as consumers employability Educacion Juridica en el Reino Unido Marco de Excelencia en el ambito de la ensenanza universitaria Examen capacitador para un tipo de abogacia inglesa (solicitor) Comercializacion de los estudios universitarios Estudiantes como consumidores Empleabilidad |
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A 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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dialnet-ar-18-ART00012771322022-12-14New challenges in the UK Legal Education landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law TeacherCanto López, MaribelUk’s legal educationteaching excellence framework (tef)solicitors qualifying exam (sqe)marketisation of higher educationstudents as consumersemployabilityEducacion Juridica en el Reino UnidoMarco de Excelencia en el ambito de la ensenanza universitariaExamen capacitador para un tipo de abogacia inglesa (solicitor)Comercializacion de los estudios universitariosEstudiantes como consumidoresEmpleabilidadA 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.El entorno habitual de los profesores de Derecho en el Reino Unido seha visto afectado recientemente por una serie de cambios. Estos cambios se concentran tanto en el ámbito general de la educación universitaria como en el ámbito particular de la educación jurídica. Este trabajo se va a centrar en dos iniciativas fundamentales. En primer lugar, TEF, que se refiere al nuevo marco de excelencia en enseñanza universitaria, y que cuenta con el patrocinio del gobierno y de las fuerzas del mercado. Este nuevo marco pretende mejorar el estándar en educación universitaria y al mismo tiempo hacer público aquellas universidades con el estándar más alto. En segundo lugar, nos referiremos al SQE, que es un nuevo examen capacitador para los solicitors(un tipo de abogacía inglesa). El SQE ha sido propuesto por la Autoridad Reguladora de los Solicitors, que dice basarse en las exigencias de empleadores, consumidores y el mercado en general. Con este nuevo examen se pretende homogeneizar los grados de Derecho y los cursos de formación práctica de abogacía, impartidos en diferentes instituciones; buscando acabar con elitismos y ayudar a la movilidad social. Ambas iniciativas has sido recibidas con bastante resistencia por diversos sectores, que consideran que tanto las razones aducidas para introducir los cambios como los datos en que se basan son erróneos. En cualquier caso, uno de los sectores mas afectado es el de los profesores de Derecho que actualmente están haciendo frente a las nuevas exigencias de estudiantes, empleadores y altos cargos universitarios. Concluimos afirmando que hoy día en el Reino Unido, muchos profesores de Derecho están barajando en silencio innumerables incógnitas y presiones, sin una plataforma en la que expresar sus preocupaciones, en el ámbito de una educación universitaria y jurídica que está cambiando vertiginosamente a su alrededor2018text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6512751(Revista) ISSN 1989-8754REJIE: Revista Jurídica de Investigación e Innovación Educativa, ISSN 1989-8754, Nº. 18, 2018, pags. 11-30engLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. 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