Helen Taylor, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, continues her series of articles on the integration of professional identity in professional skills courses: Quite a step from Point Break from my last post but this week I have been reminded of the quotation from John Updike “celebrity is a mask that eats into the face”. […]
In the third of a series of posts on the challenges of designing vocational skills training during a pandemic, Helen Taylor (Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School) discusses the skill of staying positive in challenging situations: In the Christmas break, I caught up with a film I had not seen in a long time…Point Break. […]
In the second of a series of articles, Helen Taylor (Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School) discusses some of the challenges of team working in an online learning environment. The move to an online synchronous module from a face to face teaching module (using SCALE Up methodologies) at a breakneck speed in a global pandemic […]
On Friday 11 December 2020, Joreen Richardson and Becky Hankin were crowned winners of this year’s Nottingham Law School Client Interviewing Competition. Megan Shirley (NLS Lecturer) was joined by two guest judges in the Final; Julie Higginbottom (NLS Pastoral Advisor) and Oliver Maxwell (Senior Solicitor from Nelsons). This year the competition was run online […]
The Centre for Mediation and Dispute Resolution recently ran a very successful negotiation competition for all students of Nottingham Law School using Microsoft Teams. Training was provided to the students via the platform and live competition rounds took place via its meeting format. The internal competition was a precursor for national negotiation competitions and the ICC International Medication competition, […]
Jane Ching, Professor of Professional Legal Education at Nottingham Law School and Director of the Centre for Legal Education, with an update on CLECON 2020: On 11th December we held a follow up from our successful online conference in June 2020 on Impact and Wellbeing. Doing so online, with our new-found confidence in online meetings, […]
Helen Taylor, a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, shares her thoughts on learning design in the face of a global pandemic. Writing a new module at any time is hard. Alignment of the module outcomes to the teaching materials and the assessment is vital but seems to take me a lot of time. Perhaps, […]
Professors Jane Jarman and Jane Ching recently had an article published on Legal Futures regarding the SRA Standards and Regulations 2019 (‘the STARs’) and how they will be treated in the SQE. You can read the article by clicking on this link: The SQE and ethics: STAR lite?
In preparation for Autumn when IP courses will be taught mostly online IPAN, the UK Intellectual Property Awareness Network, (IPAN) www.ipaware.org and CIPU, the US Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) https://www.understandingip.org/ invite you to an international Zoom workshop hosted by City University of London. We will share good practice and practical tips in good time for the transition […]
Following our post in March, we thought long and hard, but finally came up with a way of allowing all those who had worked hard on the event to participate. Using a series of Microsoft Teams events, spread across this week, we were able to hear from most of the people who had submitted abstracts, […]