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Call to scrap fees cap
10th March 2010University fees are back in the headlines this week with calls to scrap both the cap on university tuition fees and the Government’s target of getting 50% of under 30s into higher education.
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), the UK’s leading organisation for graduate employers, also called for the restoration of the quality of degrees.
The AGR says there will not be the quality employers expect of graduates unless more funding is put into higher education, and recommends that the fee cap “should be removed in stages and only removed completely in 2020”.
The AGR also says in a recent report, that higher education has “driven down standards and devalued the currency of a degree and damaged the quality of the university experience”. The AGR also calls for tax breaks for employers of new graduates.
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SRA enrolment deadlines
10th March 2010 Prospective LPC students with character and suitability issues have until 1st April to enrol with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). All other application have until 1st August to apply.
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BPP apologises for over recruitment
10th March 2010 The BPP law school has apologised to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) for its ‘inadvertent over-recruitment’ of students on its Bar Vocational Course. The results of the BSB’s investigation have just been published including with the BPP’s formal response.
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NQ salaries
05th March 2010 US law firm Bingham has confirmed it is paying newly qualified solicitors in its London office a starting salary of £100,000.
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