LPC course at Unni of Law

[Skaur14]

I am funding my daughter through LPC at Uni of Law, its almost £13k. Financially it's tough as I'm a single parent, 3\4 of my monthly salary goes towards LPC. My daughter achieved 2:1 for Law degree but struggling with LPC. I cannot afford for her to fail a module as its £450 for a resit.

Shes feeling very low at the moment, lecturers are not very helpful. The course is very different than undergrad. She needs some guidance on preparing for exams. Is there anyone who can help please?

Sorry to hear that Skaur and I can't offer specific practical help other than to say a lot of students find the course a wall of work in terms of volume and not that interesting after an academic law degree. She's in good company - that's always of some comfort - but I don't think there's any magic formula, just getting through the work steadily and hanging onto the fact that it won't last for long. That's pretty useless isn't it? Does she have a Training Contract to motivate her or is it the lack of one that's behind the fact that she's down? That of course will add pressure.

But my main point is that it's a complete scandal - a real scandal - that these unconscionable fees are being charged in the first place. And to add insult to injury, that the lecturers aren't pulling their weight. There is no way, no how that £450 can be justified for a re-sit - I mean how, just how? The Bar course at nearly £20k is even worse - obviously a massive inhibitor to access since very few scholarships stretch to that sort of amount.

Good luck to her anyhow - hopefully she'll keep going and get through the pain barrier by the New Year.

Is she a member on thestudentlawyer ?

I know that the university of law have changed their exams this year, I think it's now closed book instead of open exams. She should be able to get some advice/help from others in the same situation on that site and, I also suggest student services as it is a massive change.

It's awful when you do a course and there is a massive change to it on top of the change from undergrad. I didn't do law but I did a conversion professional masters and when I started the course it was totally different to what I applied for, I did get the masters but it was far harder than it would have been doing it the year before or even year later - some of the changes werent kept as they didnt work I'm sorry your daughter is in a similar situation albeit a different subject.

Sorry for late post I thought I replied before!