The University of Law (ULaw) is launching its Bar Practice Course (BPC) in Newcastle, directly challenging Northumbria University, the city’s only current provider of training for barristers. ULaw has partnered with Newcastle University to deliver the nine-month course from September 2022. The pair previously joined forces to launch ULaw’s Newcastle campus in September 2021. The […]
Legal Practice Course (LPC) fees have risen at providers across the country, with the average cost of the course now standing at £11,550.
BPP has frozen its BPTC fees – but is under pressure from ULaw, which has launched an “enhanced” BPTC that is cheaper and will also include an LLM.
Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students who study part-time are half as likely to gain pupillage as those who study full-time. Research by the Bar Standards Board found that around 20 per cent of BPTC students from the UK and EU who took the course full time in 2013 gained pupillage. By contrast, less than […]
New research by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has revealed which law schools get the most students into pupillage. No law school has a particularly good record, but BPP’s London branch comes out on top, with 27 per cent of its 2011, 12 and 13 Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students having since commenced pupillage. […]