NLS launches innovative LLB
updated on 08 June 2012
Nottingham Law School (NLS) has announced that from October 2012 it will be offering a restructured full-time LLB, which features a "split-year" option in the second year.
The aim is to challenge students and to strengthen their employability. There will be four different second-year options, which are:
- studying in a partner university in a range of countries that includes Australia, Switzerland, Turkey, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands;
- working in a professional work placement in a legal or non-legal professional practice;
- studying a range of business modules delivered by Nottingham Business School to develop business knowledge and commercial awareness; or
- participating in clinical legal education through the study of both skills-based and substantive law modules.
For students who decide not to take the spilt-year pathway, there is also an alternative year-long programme which delivers substantive law modules with professional skills and employability enhancement embedded within them.
Dean of NLS, Professor Andrea Nollent, said: "The innovative new design is very much focused upon flexibility, adding value for students and further improving their employability, ensuring that they have the skills and practical experience which employers need."
