Halfway to ‘Big Bang': ensuring competence, promoting excellence
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Slides for the presentation by Liz Campbell & Collette Paterson (Law Society of Scotland) at UKCLE's Enhancing legal education in Scotland conference, 5 November 2009.
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- 1. HALFWAY TO BIG BANG Ensuring competence, promoting
excellence...
- Liz Campbell Director (Education and Training Policy)
- Collette Paterson Deputy Director (Education and Training
Policy)
- 2. INTRODUCTION
- End of consultation/start of implementation
- Milestones and timescale to 2011 implementation
- Use of website as resource base
- 3. AN EDUCATION ROADMAP Education begins at the Foundation
stage, takes a professional turn at PEAT 1, qualification concludes
during the workplace with PEAT 2, and education continues as life
long learning in the form of CPD. Foundation Programme Professional
Education & Training (PEAT) 1&2 Continuing Professional
Development
- 4. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
- New terminology for LLB/LSS exams
- More flexibility for universities
- Move from prescribed professional subjects to learning
outcomes
- Exempting Scottish degree programme: at least 190 SCQF credits
devoted to learning outcomes in degree programme of at least 240
credits of law
Foundation Programme
- 5. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
- Combined Foundation and PEAT 1 programmes permitted
- Practice based questions used as further method of
assessment
- Replacement of LSS exams with graduate level non-law degree
route
Foundation Programme
- 6. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
- Transitional arrangements
- Drafting of accreditation guidelines
- Timescale for accreditation to run programmes in from 2011
- Accreditation guidelines issued to providers next month
- Post of Accreditation Officer
Foundation Programme
- 7. PEAT
- The many faces of the Diploma
- The glue that holds it all together?
- The Diploma, but not as we know it
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- Electives in the true sense
PEAT 1
- 8. COMMON OUTCOMES (PEAT) PEAT 2 PEAT 1 Professionalism
Professional ethics and standards Professional Communication
- 9. PEAT
- The standard of the Day 1 trainee and the Qualifying
Solicitor
- Improved [ quarterly?] reviews, e-portfolios, and
guidance.
- Less Sugar, more reality.
? ? PEAT 2
- 10. CPD
- Focus on identification of training needs, participation in
training and evaluation of benefit of training
- Templates to assist in the process; good practice guidelines
and examples of activities that will count towards CPD
- Wider range of activities permitted
- Practice of carrying forward/back to cease
- Nomination of training partner or supervisor
- Effective from November 2011
CPD
- 11. KEY DATES EVENT DATE New admission regulations enclosed
with AGM papers. MAY 2010 Final policies on Trainee CPD, including
cost and flexibility of this element finalised and communication
commencing with potential Trainee CPD providers and training firms.
JUNE 2010 New admissions regulations come into force in relation to
flexible options for traineeships. SEPTEMBER 2010 Prospective
providers of Trainee CPD given a full package of information on
what Trainee CPD will include, so that they may apply for
accreditation of appropriate elements. SEPTEMBER 2010 Pilot of PEAT
2 commences with cross-section of the profession, so that proposed
learning Outcomes, assessment methods, and quality assurance of
PEAT 2 can be tested. FROM SEPTEMBER 2010 Accreditation of Trainee
CPD Providers. JAN-JUNE 2011
- 12. KEY DATES EVENT DATE Final suite of documents in relation
to the practicalities of the new PEAT 2 and CPD distributed.
JAN/FEB 2011 Full admissions regulations come into force. SEPTEMBER
2011 New Foundation (LLB) and PEAT 1 (Diploma) courses commence in
universities across Scotland. SEPTEMBER 2011 PEAT 2 rolled out
across all training organisations in Scotland, with Trainee CPD and
PCC both deemed to be Trainee CPD for a transitional period for
trainees qualifying up to September 2013. SEPTEMBER 2011 New CPD
rules come into force. NOVEMBER 2011 For any trainee qualifying
after September 2013, Trainee CPD is the only option available as
PCC is definitively discontinued. SEPTEMBER 2013
- 13. CLOSING REMARKS