BPP to provide Legal Trailblazer apprenticeships from September 2016

BPP University Law School will be providing the Legal Trailblazer apprenticeship from September 2016, in conjunction with several firms including top commercial outfit, Eversheds.

The announcement follows the confirmation of one standardised apprenticeship model by the government’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, which is establishing apprenticeships as a funded, earn-while-you-learn alternative to university study. All legal apprenticeships will now be measured according to the same standards and will comprise training in the same several core competencies - and will also be a first step option along a number of different career paths in the legal profession, including those of solicitors, chartered legal executives and paralegals.

Peter Crisp, dean of BPP, said: "I am really excited to be working closely with a range of firms using BPP University Law School’s extensive experience in legal education to develop apprenticeship programmes to meet the needs of the profession. Creating these alternative funded routes to qualification will make an important contribution to increasing diversity and access to the profession."