The University of Law is offering LPC students half their money back if they don't get a job afterwards terms and conditions apply.
In its promotional literature ULaw now guarantees prospective students a job within nine months of graduating or 50% of their money back, because it is "more confident than ever in your success". Its Employment Promise is a cashback version of BPP's LPC Career Guarantee, which lets graduates study another course for free if they don't get a training contract within six months of completing the LPC.
ULaw's consolation prize may appeal to students considering whether to shell out £14,750 (the cost of the course in London), but smallprint applies. Slackers should certainly reconsider, because students who don't pass all assessments at the first attempt and have less than an 80% attendence record will be ineligible. More onerously, ULaw LPC graduates must have consistently used "best endeavours"* to obtain "Qualifying Employment" throughout the nine months. Qualifying Employment is defined as employment "in the UK or elsewhere, either a training contract as a trainee solicitor, lawyer or other legal professional, or other employment within law or commerce".
Because a job in "commerce" could encompass everything from night soil man to street artist, RollOnFriday asked ULaw to define it. A spokeswoman said, "our aim is to deal with all claims on a case by case basis, fairly and transparently", and clarified that "manual labour and low level administrative roles" were examples of jobs in commerce which would not disqualify grads from receiving the 50% rebate. For the benefit of Slaughter and May partners, being the Prime Minister of Spain is not a low level administrative role.
*coincidentally, the first thing they'll learn to strike out of the other side's drafts if they do get a job in law.
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In its promotional literature ULaw now guarantees prospective students a job within nine months of graduating or 50% of their money back, because it is "more confident than ever in your success". Its Employment Promise is a cashback version of BPP's LPC Career Guarantee, which lets graduates study another course for free if they don't get a training contract within six months of completing the LPC.
ULaw's consolation prize may appeal to students considering whether to shell out £14,750 (the cost of the course in London), but smallprint applies. Slackers should certainly reconsider, because students who don't pass all assessments at the first attempt and have less than an 80% attendence record will be ineligible. More onerously, ULaw LPC graduates must have consistently used "best endeavours"* to obtain "Qualifying Employment" throughout the nine months. Qualifying Employment is defined as employment "in the UK or elsewhere, either a training contract as a trainee solicitor, lawyer or other legal professional, or other employment within law or commerce".
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Because a job in "commerce" could encompass everything from night soil man to street artist, RollOnFriday asked ULaw to define it. A spokeswoman said, "our aim is to deal with all claims on a case by case basis, fairly and transparently", and clarified that "manual labour and low level administrative roles" were examples of jobs in commerce which would not disqualify grads from receiving the 50% rebate. For the benefit of Slaughter and May partners, being the Prime Minister of Spain is not a low level administrative role.
*coincidentally, the first thing they'll learn to strike out of the other side's drafts if they do get a job in law.
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