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CoL launches PT BPTC
- 09th March 2011
Aspiring barristers from the Midlands can now combine study for the Bar with existing work or family commitments following the launch of a new part-time training course at The College of Law in Birmingham.
The centre in Great Hampton Street will offer the new part-time Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) from September* after successfully delivering the full-time version of the course for the past four years.
Paul Shoulders, BPTC course leader at The College of Law in Birmingham, said: “The new part-time course opens up the potential rewards of a career at the Bar to people who need to work to support their studies or who have other commitments on their time.
“The course is designed not only to help students achieve pupillage with a barristers’ chamber but also to prepare them for working life at the Bar. All our tutors have practised, or continue to practise, as barristers or solicitors and some even sit as judges.”
The part-time course runs over two years, compared with one year full-time, and features an average of 26 hours of formal training and private study per week including 15 study weekends per year.
* subject to validation by the Bar Standards Board
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