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8 May 2006

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Joanne Harris

A Bar Council consultation seeking views on radical reforms to the BVC has closed – but any changes are likely to take years to come into effect.

The Bar Council launched the consultation in December 2005, giving BVC providers three months to respond to the proposed changes.

The key proposals were drawn up by the bar’s education and training committee, which said there is an ongoing need for a vocational course.

However, the committee said there needs to be more practitioner involvement in the setting of outcomes, the preparation of materials, the monitoring of courses and the assessment of students on a vocational course.

The Bar Council also wants to examine the cost implications of the BVC and whether this is a deterrent to potential new barristers.

BPP chief executive Peter Crisp said that, while the school welcomed the opportunity to review the BVC, the fact that no changes would be made for some time was a “missed opportunity”.

“It’s fine, but it hasn’t actually done anything,” said Crisp. “Talking about things is all well and good, but we’d like some action.”

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  • Anonymous | 4-Apr-2010 3:51 pm

    Changes in everything that we do is always welcome as long it will bring about efficiency and prosperity. There are times, where changes would affect people in such a way that they would have been better of the way they were in the beginning. Therefore change does not always have the desired effect that was intended in the first place. Persons in authority must be careful when introducing change because in can have a residual effect that no wants to happen. In would be best to introduce changes incrementially and let all components be absorbed timely so people can get a better undrstanding of what is going on. It will alson be best to let people know in advance what is about to take place so they prepare themselves for the inevitable.
    I do not think that the changes to the bvc has been communicated to the universities effectively so as to make potentials students aware of what is expected of them. It will certainly be unfair for students who are in there second year and going to their final year in law school and to be faced with these changes for 2010/2011 with out getting the oppotunity to be formally notified by anyone.
    What concerns me, is that a student who may have gotten a first is will not necessarly perform better than a student who may have gotten a 2:2 at the bptc. I do ask that these concerns be taken nto consideration and perhaps maybe a better campagin about these changes will do a great deal because it will motivate students to achieve their potentials beyound the normal.

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