Pathways to Law. This scheme aims to give 50 students and their families the information, advice and guidance they need to succeed in a career in law. Students join the programme at the end of Year 11 and remain on the programme until the end of Year 13. During that time they will be invited to law taster sessions, careers information events, university advice sessions and mock trials. Pathways to Law students will also get the opportunity to go on a law work shadowing (during a half term break).
Pathways to Law. In April 2016 LSE re-bid for the contract and funding to continue Pathways to Law in London. LSE works closely with HEI partners and the Xxxxxx Trust over the content and delivery of the Pathways to Law programme. This includes joint promotion and admissions for the scheme, as well as joint delivery of some sessions. We also liaise with the other HE partners delivering Pathways to Law around the country and all Pathways students come together at Warwick University once a year on a collaborative summer school. The Pathways to Law programme has input from the Legal Education Foundation and from law firms in London. All students on the programme undertake a 3 to 5 day work placement at one of the country’s leading law firms. One of the main principles underpinning the scheme is to aid social mobility and access to the legal professions. Phase 4 will involve working with students from a younger age to support this aim. • Pathways - widening access to careers in banking and finance: Starting development in Autumn 2016 this programme will involve working collaboratively with the Xxxxxx Trust and the University of Warwick. Building on the successful Pathways to Law model, the programme will include a range of events from Year 10 onwards in order to raise the profile of these subject areas with our target schools. This model will provide a pipeline of talent for the Year 12/13 Pathways to Law and Pathways to Finance programmes, and ultimately to two sought-after professions. • Xxxxxxx Group Widening Participation Association: Working together to widen access to research-intensive universities, the Association has provided a forum for collaborative work across these highly selective institutions for many years. As well as providing peer support for senior WP staff, the group plans and delivers collaborative activity including the biennial Teachers’ Conference and practitioner networks. • Advancing Access: LSE is a partner in this national collaboration of 24 selective universities. We are working together with schools and colleges to develop and deliver continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers and advisors that supports student progression to selective universities and courses. Advancing Access has a particular focus on schools with low levels of progression to such universities, delivering the majority of CPD events and resources online to allow easy access for all schools, regardless of their location. The work complements the activities of LSE and ...
Pathways to Law of the 75 students on the scheme, we anticipate that 50 will apply to Xxxxxxx Group institutions, with 25-30 of these being made to LSE. Student Shadowing: numbers taking part in student shadowing vary from year to year. However, we anticipate that 40% of those students taking part each year would make an application to LSE. As the remaining Widening Participation schemes are aspiration-raising rather than recruitment focused, it is considerably more difficult to set ’application’ milestones to these activities. The descriptions of the schemes assign ‘reach’ milestones to the activities. Data on the demographic composition and on the intentions of all participants on our WP activities will be collected, via registration forms and feedback questionnaires. Participants on long-term schemes (such as CHOICE and Pathways to Law) will be surveyed at the beginning of the schemes, to determine their intentions, and at the end of the schemes, to determine the outcomes and their University choices. The data, when processed, will be presented to the Widening Participation Advisory Committee (a sub-group of Council) for discussion on progress towards objectives. The Academic Board will consider progress towards LSE ’s objectives to increase applications from state school students, students from lower socio-economic groups and from low participation neighbourhoods, and will monitor the structure of the student body.
Pathways to Law. In collaboration with The Xxxxxx Trust and other HEI Partners, the University’s School of Law is proud to be a part of the innovative Pathways to Law programme, a widening participation scheme which inspires and supports academically-able state school students in year 12 and 13 from non-privileged backgrounds who are interested in a career in law. Being a part of Pathways to Law since its inception in 2007, has enabled us to widen our access to Law at the University, ensuring that those students who are most capable of succeeding are best prepared for an academic law course, equipping them with information at a much earlier stage in their schooling so they are able to apply for a degree with a strong academic profile and relevant work experience.
