Halfway to ‘Big Bang': ensuring competence, promoting excellence...
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Slides for the presentation by Liz Campbell & Collette Paterson (Law Society of Scotland) at UKCLE's Enhancing legal education in Scotland conference, 5 November 2009.
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- 3. AN EDUCATION ROADMAP Education begins at the Foundation stage, takes a professional turn at PEAT 1, qualification concludes during the workplace with PEAT 2, and education continues as ‘life long learning’ in the form of CPD. Foundation Programme Professional Education & Training (PEAT) – 1&2 Continuing Professional Development
- 8. COMMON OUTCOMES (PEAT) PEAT 2 PEAT 1 Professionalism Professional ethics and standards Professional Communication
- 11. KEY DATES EVENT DATE New admission regulations enclosed with AGM papers. MAY 2010 Final policies on Trainee CPD, including cost and flexibility of this element finalised and communication commencing with potential Trainee CPD providers and training firms. JUNE 2010 New admissions regulations come into force in relation to ‘flexible options for traineeships’. SEPTEMBER 2010 Prospective providers of Trainee CPD given a full package of information on what Trainee CPD will include, so that they may apply for accreditation of appropriate elements. SEPTEMBER 2010 Pilot of PEAT 2 commences with cross-section of the profession, so that proposed learning Outcomes, assessment methods, and quality assurance of PEAT 2 can be tested. FROM SEPTEMBER 2010 Accreditation of Trainee CPD Providers. JAN-JUNE 2011
- 12. KEY DATES EVENT DATE Final suite of documents in relation to the practicalities of the new PEAT 2 and CPD distributed. JAN/FEB 2011 Full admissions regulations come into force. SEPTEMBER 2011 New Foundation (LLB) and PEAT 1 (Diploma) courses commence in universities across Scotland. SEPTEMBER 2011 PEAT 2 rolled out across all training organisations in Scotland, with Trainee CPD and PCC both deemed to be Trainee CPD for a transitional period for trainees qualifying up to September 2013. SEPTEMBER 2011 New CPD rules come into force. NOVEMBER 2011 For any trainee qualifying after September 2013, Trainee CPD is the only option available as PCC is definitively discontinued. SEPTEMBER 2013
- 13. CLOSING REMARKS
Editor's Notes
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- Licences to practise and revalidation The framework for quality healthcare is evolving and holds the promise of continual improvements in the care of patients. Licences to practise and revalidation will play a key role in this quality agenda by ensuring doctors remain up to date and fit to practise, by increasing the trust in the medical profession and modernising professionally led regulation.
- Licences to practise and revalidation The framework for quality healthcare is evolving and holds the promise of continual improvements in the care of patients. Licences to practise and revalidation will play a key role in this quality agenda by ensuring doctors remain up to date and fit to practise, by increasing the trust in the medical profession and modernising professionally led regulation.
- Introduced in 1981, and therefore being exactly the same age I am, it was reviewed in 2000. In 2004, the Diploma Working Party was established to look at the core subjects of the Diploma, and the skills which we expect future trainees to be taught on that course. In 2006, the work-in-progress of the Diploma Working Party was rolled into a far bigger exercise, the ‘Shaping the Future of Legal Education’ consultation which we have heard about in Liz’ introduction. Nearly a decade later, we are on the cusp of introducing the third guise of the Diploma – but getting here was not a guaranteed process and the Society, leading a legal jurisdiction in a uniquely fortunate position to be reviewing the entire route to qualification in its entirely, in its 2006 consultation questioned the very requirement for a vocational course at all. Overwhelmingly, respones to that consultation suggested that the Diploma was and should continue to be a crucial stage in the route to qualification, even if we don’t want to as far as saying it is the glue which holds it all together. The LLB is a liberal arts degree, this was and remains a recurring theme in legal education. It has become particurly high profile recenlty as a result of comments of our Justice Secretary. And so it’s the Diploma where the vocational and professional elements of training truly kick in, and lead future solicitors nicely into the challenges of the Trainign Contract. With consultation results demanding that the Diploma continue, what we had is a unique opportunity for the academic communict, and the practising profession, to work together on the best course possible. With that in mind, the Diploma lives on from 2011, but it seemed that sandwiched between the LLB and the traineeship that it had been suffering from middle child syndrome not as we know it. Through this evolution, it becomes Professional Education and Training Stage 1. The student experience will be quite different from September 2011, and there are three powerful aspects to that. Firstly, from 2011 the PEAT 1 student will have a clear understanding that what they are commencing is the start of a three year process of vocational and work based training. PEAT 1 can be combined with the Foundation course, if a provider or consortium wish to propose such a model, but PEAT 1 must conclude before PEAT 2 can be commenced, because PEAT 2 will very clearly build on PEAT 1. Secondly, and as with the foundation stage, there is a move from prescription of subjects to a statement of outcomes for achievement at PEAT 1. This relates to a far reduced core, covering the areas of Conveyancing, Private Client, Litigation, and Business, Financial and Practice Awareness, with Tax being taught pervasively across those subjects. With the entire course consisting of 120 credits, and the Core requiring to be taught in no less than 60 credits, the introduction of PEAT 2 brings with it a radical opportunity for providers to introduce multiple and wide ranging electives for students to choose from. No longer a choice between Company & Commercial and Public Administration, the Society has been thrilled to hear anecdotally from providers what they propose for session 2011/2012. Suggestions include advanced options in core areas, new and innovative electives in subjects relevant to the local market or of other interest to the university, and collaboration in electives. Such a different approach to choice at PEAT 1 will surely not be misssed by students who seek to define their professional career from the earliest stage, in an increasingly competitive market. Accreditation of new courses will take place between Spring 2010 and Spring 2011, as this month of November sees the Education and Training Committee pull together final accreditation guidelines and Outcomes for provision to universities. To support the introduction of a new programme across the whole of the country at once, the Society is putting in place the option of a site visit prior to the accreditation meeting itself, a Mandatory visit from a representative of the E&T Committee in Year 1 of the programme, session 11/12, and a formal and streamlined annual reporting process to assist providers and the Society with the inevitable transition to PEAT 1 from the Diploma.
- It is the introduction of common outcomes which apply throughout three years of vocational and work based training that provides the mechanism to link both stages of Professional Education and Training. The student embarking on the Diploma will track their progress over the course of three years. The PEAT 1 provider will assess students in the context of what comes next.
- I Crucially, training firms will be able to rely, for the first time on statements of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of the ‘Day 1 trainee’ and the standard which the Society expects of the ‘Qualifying Solicitor’. To ensure that Outcomes are meaningful, the Society will put in place a variety of processes to ensure that trainee and trainer can work together to ensure that the test of the ‘qualifying solicitor’ is satisfied at the end of 2 years. These process will include improved regular reviews and electronic methods of capturing trainee achievement over the course of two years. Best practice in training will be issued, and we will commit to running a cycle of Train the Trainer courses. The intention of the new structure is allow areas of improvement to be discovered along the way and ultimately ensure that one standard is met. This avoid uncertainty of the trainer, as to whether the trainee solicitor is competnt. Judging against this standard at the point of entry is objective, avoiding personal preference and avoids the possibility of rash, inequitable or non-standard approaches in our profession to who makes it from apprentice to fully fledged solicitor. If the Diploma could be considered to have been suffering from middle child syndrome, then the PCC can be considered its slightly poorer cousin. Throughout Phase I of our project, consultation on the various elements of the route to qualification, there was overwhelming support for retention of the Diploma but, being open to suggestions of all aspects of the route to qualification, the Education and Training Committee listened closely to concerns about the PCC. The PCC was intended to provide an opportunity for students to revisit key principles at a higher level of sophistication than the Diploma, as trainees. However, further to extensive consultation as we all know, from September 2011 the PCC will be discontinued. Whilst it will be permitted to continue for a transitional period for trainee solicitors qualifying up to September 2013, the Society’s preference is for providers to apply for accreditation of something else from September 2011 – Trainee CPD, or TCPD as it is already being dubbed. It is not correct to promote TCPD as a replacement for the PCC. Instead, what TCPD does is link back to the PEAT 1 stage but also lead trainees nicely in the direction of solicitors’ CPD, fostering the importance of life-long learning, a theme already identified in this presentation. The Education and Training Committee is currently at the very early stages of developing the detail of Trainee CPD policy, which will in total require completion of 60 hours of training by all trainee solicitors over the course of their trainesship. This month we again repeat our earlier invitation in our Journal and e-bulletin, to the academic community and practising profession, to come on board and shape the detail of this innovative new development. What’s up for decision is how those 60 hours should be split, how Trainee CPD links with the PEAT 1 and 2 Outcomes previously mentioned, just how flexible the Society should be in terms of what constituted Trainee CPD, whether trainees should be entitled to count CPD they attend with their employer organisation over the course of their traineeship, whether Trainee CPD can be picked up in blocks as the PCC currently is, what proportion of Trainee should be accredited and if providers can be accredited in particular modules. Details of how to get in contact with Liz Campbell, who is leading this working party, are available today. With Outcomes, we still don’t want the ‘your fired’, but what we do want is a clear measure for both trainee and trainer of what can be expected at two key stages – Day 1 trainee, and
- Licences to practise and revalidation The framework for quality healthcare is evolving and holds the promise of continual improvements in the care of patients. Licences to practise and revalidation will play a key role in this quality agenda by ensuring doctors remain up to date and fit to practise, by increasing the trust in the medical profession and modernising professionally led regulation.