I took part in a staff session that was organised at Manchester Law School recently by Dr Kryss Macleod. The topic was metacognition, what it was, how it could be used to improve our students’ legal education. Kryss took the
The title is Transforming legal education? The regulatory value of shared space. The question mark queries whether or not a shared space approach does, or at least have the potential to, transform legal education. I’ve never doubted it personally through
It’s the motto of the Catholic secondary school I attended, St Mungo Academy (1968-1974), when it was nominally run by Marist Brothers though most of the staff were lay teachers. The previous four years I’d attended a Catholic primary boarding
At the behest of Dr Paulina Wilson of QUB I recently wrote a short piece for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly series called Reflections on Teaching. Around 5,000 words. Usually it takes me 5K to draw breath, so it
This event, hosted by SCiLAB, focused on two significant educational approaches in Law and related disciplines, namely the use of a new simulation platform, SIMple, along with the use of simulated clients (SCs). In more detail…
SIMulated Professional Learning
I was re-organising the back office of my blog and then I thought, why not tidy up the front office too. So here it is – a work in progress as all blogs are. I’ve included the blog on Sim
Mergers & collaborations are in the air, again. A while back City St George’s president Anthony Finkelstein, aka prof serious, recommended consolidating providers to improve the HE sector’s finances. The merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich into the
A couple of weeks ago I spoke on a panel session at a one-day conference organised by Westminster U Law School – The Role of AI and legal education: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers. I was on annual
Since I seem to be thinking about things past more than present or future at the moment, before this year’s end I want to mark the 20th anniversary of my blog. I started in 2005, around January, I think, on
After I finished my Arts doctoral thesis and Education qualifications, and before I turned to Law, I worked as a part-time tutor in the Eng Lit dept at Glasgow University. I kept in touch with my medieval tutor, Des O’Brien,
