New challenges in the UK Legal Education landscape: TEF, SQE and the Law Teacher
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https://doi.org/10.24310/REJIE.2018.v0i18.5054Palabras clave:
educacion juridica en el Reino Unido, marco de excelencia en el ámbito de la ensenanza universitaria, examen capacitador para un tipo de abogacía inglesa, comercializacion de los estudios universitarios, estudiantes como consumidores, empleabilidadResumen
El entorno habitual de los profesores de derecho en el Reino Unido se ha visto afectado recientemente por una serie de cambios. Estos cambios se concentran tanto al ámbito general de la educación universitaria como al ámbito particular de la educación jurídica. Este trabajo se va a centrar en dos iniciativas fundamentales. En primer lugar, TEF, que se refiere al nuevo marco de excelencia en enseñanza universitaria, y que cuenta con el patrocinio del gobierno y de las fuerzas del Mercado. Este nuevo marco pretende mejorar el estándar en educación universitaria y al mismo tiempo hacer público aquellas universidades con el estándar más alto. En segundo lugar, nos referiremos al SQE, que es un nuevo examen capacitador para los solicitors (un tipo de abogacía inglesa). El SQE ha sido propuesto por la Autoridad Reguladora de los Solicitors, que dice basarse en las exigencias de empleadores, consumidores y el mercado en general. Con este nuevo examen se pretende homogeneizar los grados de derecho y los cursos de formación práctica de abogacía, impartidos en diferentes instituciones; buscando acabar con elitismos y ayudar a la movilidad social. Ambas iniciativas han sido recibidas con bastante resistencia por diversos sectores, que consideran que tanto las razones aducidas para introducir los cambios como los datos en que se basan son erróneos. En cualquier caso, uno de los sectores más afectados es el de los profesores de Derecho que actualmente están haciendo frente a las nuevas exigencias de estudiantes, empleadores y altos cargos universitarios. Concluimos afirmando que hoy día en el Reino Unido, muchos profesores de Derecho están barajando en silencio innumerables incógnitas y presiones, sin una plataforma en la que expresar sus preocupaciones, en el ámbito de una educación universitaria y jurídica que están cambiando vertiginosamente a su alrededor
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