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41 Law Tchr. 68 (2007)
Policy and Education Developments

handle is hein.journals/lwtch41 and id is 74 raw text is: THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE INCREASING PRIVATISATION OF LEGAL EDUCATION BACKGROUND BRIEFING DOCUMENT By Patricia Leighton This document aims to provide some information on the nature and extent of private provision of legal education in the UK. It also suggests a number of issues of relevance to the debate that may arise as a consequence of that private provision. There are two preliminary matters to consider. The first is to define what is included in the notion of legal education; the second is the definition of private provision. As the system of legal education is different in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the focus is on England and Wales. It should be noted that data for this paper was obtained from a wide range of sources, including official statistics but more typically data provided by institutions and legal education providers themselves. Many of the aspects of legal education considered here are fast-moving and it may well be that not all of the data is either completely accurate or up to date. For this I apologise. Legal education Although the focus of debate and discussion when one speaks of legal education tends to be on law degrees and on the courses that prepare students for legal practice, in reality legal education goes far wider. Indeed, it reflects the membership of the Association of Law Teachers itself. Law is taught in schools for GCSE and A level programmes and features greatly on broader programmes that prepare students for citizenship and society more generally In colleges of further education A level law is widely taught and in both further and higher education law features prominently on business and a wide range of vocational courses. These courses include those that prepare for employment sectors such as construction, leisure and tourism, journalism, advice and social work and many aspects of management and administration. Some courses, for example, to prepare for being a company secretary are long-established. Mostly, A level is taught by public sector providers, though it is of interest that in Wales in 2004, all of the teaching of A level Law in Welsh was undertaken by a private company This was apparently caused by the inability of the colleges to recruit sufficient law teachers and the nature of the specialism. Law degrees have developed dramatically in the last twenty years and the number of institutions offering them has similarly grown. Courses are 68

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