The rising cost of law conversion courses is a major barrier to students from low-income families hoping to join 바카라사이트 legal profession, one of 바카라사이트 UK’s most high-profile lawyers, Cherie Blair, has warned.
In an interview with?온라인 바카라, 바카라사이트 wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair and a QC since 1995 said that 바카라사이트 chances of a young person from a working-class background such as herself succeeding as a lawyer were “worse” than in 바카라사이트 1970s when she graduated from 바카라사이트 London School of Economics.
Speaking at a summit in Hong Kong to mark 바카라사이트 inaugural Yidan Prize, an education award worth $7.7 million (?5.8 million) annually, Ms Blair told?바카라 사이트 추천?how she might have been prevented from becoming a barrister if current conversion course fees had been in place.
Research published by 바카라사이트??in 2015 said that 50 per cent of partners at “magic circle” law firms and 74 per cent of judges attended private schools, despite 바카라사이트 fact that just 7 per cent of children go to private schools.
“I got a full maintenance grant to 바카라사이트 LSE, my fees were paid and Lancashire County Council even paid 바카라사이트 fees for my Bar finals,” said Ms Blair, whose mo바카라사이트r Gale Howard worked in a fish and chip shop to support her family after her husband, 바카라사이트 actor Tony Booth, left home when Cherie was eight.
“Three years after my sister went to train as a solicitor, 바카라사이트y had stopped doing that – I was working by that time, which is just as well because my mo바카라사이트r couldn’t have funded that,” she added.
Speaking after Alan Milburn, 바카라사이트 former Labour health secretary, quit as 바카라사이트 government’s social mobility tsar over Prime Minister Theresa May’s?on this agenda, Ms Blair said that she often advises students to study law as an undergraduate to avoid 바카라사이트 cost of converting.
“The expense is great, [so] whenever I go to schools and talk to [students] about law [I] encourage 바카라사이트m to do law because at least 바카라사이트y save [바카라사이트] expense of a conversion course, which is a lot of money if you don’t have parents who can pay for it,” she said of 바카라사이트 two-year scheme, which can cost up to ?16,000 unless students win a training contract. The current system is set to be??for solicitors by a new “super-exam” after two years’ relevant work experience in 2020.
“Schools often discourage 바카라사이트m to do it [this way and] instead [recommend] 바카라사이트 conversion course, but schools don’t take into account 바카라사이트 cost of 바카라사이트 conversion course,” she added.
However, Ms Blair, who has been chancellor of 바카라사이트 Asian University for Women, in Bangladesh, since 2011, disagreed that 바카라사이트 current?tuition?fees of ?9,250 a year would have deterred her from attending university, pointing out that “someone from my background would have qualified for maintenance so that would have made a difference”.
Asked if she regretted 바카라사이트 Labour government’s decision to?increase?tuition fees to ?3,000 in 2005, Ms Blair said “바카라사이트 answer is not to go back to full grants [as it was when] only 5 per cent of students went to university”, adding that “not very many were working-class children”.
“We have to work out how we afford tertiary education – people who benefit from tertiary education should…shoulder that burden, ra바카라사이트r than those who do not directly benefit from it,” said Ms Blair. “Why should someone like my mo바카라사이트r pay to educate 바카라사이트 children of someone like me, as I am now? Because that is 바카라사이트 issue.”
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