About Us

The UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) was established in January 2000 with the aim of promoting the development of learning and teaching in law at both the academic and vocational stages.

UKCLE works with the legal education community with the aim of improving the student learning experience – see UKCLE vision for more.

Following the decision of the Higher Education Academy to discontinue funding to subject centres, the UK Centre for Legal Education will close on 31 July 2011 and the content on this site will not be updated after this date.

2010-11

For 2010-11 our operational plan activities are mapped against the Higher Education Academy’s three overarching work areas:

• Better teaching
• Flexibility of learning
• Graduate impact

Some examples of our planned work:

• In its 11th year, our flagship Learning in Law Annual Conference will be centred around the theme of ‘experiencing legal education’
• Student engagement activities are a high priority and include the launch of an exciting initiative to set up a National Law Students Forum, and enhancement of the student area of our website
• Commencement of a 2 year National Student Survey research project, focussed on assessment and feedback

UKCLE is a subject centre of the Higher Education Academy. The UKCLE team is based in the School of Law at the University of Warwick.

UKCLE activities

• a programme of events and professional development seminars
• newsletters and publications
• resource bank
• support for research and development
• support for academic networks in law

For more information on our activities see the reports submitted to the Higher Education Academy in the reports folder.

Last Modified: 20 July 2011