Northumbria's five-year qualifying degree on hold
updated on 17 January 2013
Further to news that the release date for the findings of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) has again been delayed, the unique five-year qualifying degree offered by Northumbria University has been put on hold.
As reported in Lawyer2B, the pilot programme combined a law degree, LPC and training contract and was part of the SRA's work-based learning (WBL) pilot. Irwin Mitchell and Watson Burton had both signed up as partner firms.
The SRA said in a statement: "The intention was always… that this was a discrete, time-limited pilot. Northumbria did approach us for an extension of the M Law (solicitor) to new cohorts. We have not approved this extension because the WBL is now closed and we are considering the pilot results, alongside the wider picture that the LETR will reveal."
