{"id":326,"date":"2006-07-18T18:12:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-18T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:12:48","slug":"more-choice-for-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"More choice for law students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=left><strong>The College of Law<\/strong> has become the first non-university-affiliated law school to win degree-awarding powers. <br \/>From September 2006, students completing the college&#8217;s <strong>graduate diploma in law<\/strong> (GDL) &#8211; often taken by students who do not have a first degree in law &#8211; and the <strong>legal practice course<\/strong> (LPC) \u2013 the solicitors&#8217; vocational stage &#8211; will graduate with a law degree (LLB) rather than a diploma. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=Barrister src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/barrister4.jpg\" border=0><br \/>It also has the power to award students masters degrees in law (LLMs). The <strong>BPP Law School<\/strong> has also applied for degree-providing status, but is not likely to receive government approval until mid 2007. The Privy Council&#8217;s grants degree-awarding powers following a review by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and a recommendation to the Department for Education and Skills.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Law has become the first non-university-affiliated law school to win degree-awarding powers. From September 2006, students completing the college&#8217;s graduate diploma in law (GDL) &#8211; often taken by students who do not have a first degree in law &#8211; and the legal practice course (LPC) \u2013 the solicitors&#8217; vocational stage &#8211; will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}