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College of Law vs Kaplan vs BPP: law schools vie for top spot

I can only speak from experience of BPP as I chose to complete the LPC there even despite not loving their 'rote learning' teaching methods in the GDL. I was in fact pleasantly surprised, I wonder whether your criticism about regurgitating material could have been because of the format of the GDL in my mind is literally about how well you can memorise material. To learn the law in 18 weeks, you need to have a good recall! The experience improves with the LPC as at least the exams are more practical and relevant to an actual career in law. Although some still criticise this course for being mundane. I do agree with the comments about tutors, yet wherever you learn, there are always going to be some shining stars, and others who you feel you're left to your own devices and struggle. However I resent some of the above comments. Spoon feeding only works if you're prepared to put in the hours. I would disagree with comments that BPP love handing out passes, I know many people who failed a few modules, or sturggled to get top marks. Perhaps the reason a lot of people pass is because the majority are very smart people, the kind of hard workers who you would expect to do well. The rest of us work our socks off, and achieve unimpressive results, but nevertheless made it through what is in all fairness a very intense course, wherever you take it. The regulatory bodies have - and rightly so - ensured that wherever you go you should expect much the same quality of education. And as an individual only ever (thank goodness) complete the course once, no one will ever really get a good idea of the real differences between providers after buildings, and snazzy advertising.

20-Jul-2009

12:46 pm