Bar Vocational Course: University of Northumbria
Bar Vocational Course (BVC) providers were asked for the following information in respect of years 1997/8 and 2007/8:
(a) The total number of the students enrolled on the university’s full time BVC;
(b) The number gaining an award of ‘outstanding’ at the first attempt;
(c) The number gaining an award of ‘very competent’ at the first attempt;
(d) The number gaining an award of ‘competent’ at the first attempt;
(e) The number failing / failing to complete the course at the first attempt.
Based on the information provided, the table below shows, as a percentage of the total awards, the awards for each class in the years indicated.
Please note that the figures relate to the first exam attempts and so the fail/failed to complete figures includes all students who did not complete at the first attempt for any reason. It may include those who were entitled to resit some or all of their exams at a later sitting. It may also include those who withdrew from the course without taking the examinations.
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| Northumbria | 1997/8 | 2007/8 |
| Outstanding | 2.4% | 2.3% |
| Very competent | 35.4% | 27.9% |
| Competent | 45.1% | 34.9% |
| Fail/Failed to complete | 17.1% | 34.9% |
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This is not exactly a great university for BVC training.
Tutors in the main were more interested in themselves (& 1 often snoozed during advocacy seminars). The course leader had not completed a pupillage but graded Advocacy 1!
The examination set-up was ridiculous (other providers gave their students more than 2 hrs to prepare for their EIC/CX/negotiation – although I realise that conferencing can occur at very short notice).
Some very good students were graded competent & some poor advocates received VC’s.
A lot also definitely depended on how much of a ‘brown-noser’ you were!
Choose a different university if you can!