The Legal Education Foundation has got off to a busy start, notes Roger Smith
The Legal Education Foundation is beginning to make its weight felt. You may remember that it was formed as the result of the somewhat controversial selling off of the College (now University) of Law to Montagu Private Equity in 2012. Montagu subsequently flogged the University to Global University Systems. The results for legal education are to be seen but the foundation was set up with the £200m obtained from the initial sale and just under £4m was dispersed in the last year.
The foundation’s main objective is “to promote the advancement of legal education and the study of law in all its branches”. Its trustees have set five objectives: to increase public understanding of, and capability to use, the law; to advance thinking, training and practice in legal education and legal services; to increase access to employment in the legal profession and, in particular, to advance social mobility and diversity; to develop a robust evidence base of needs in relation to the above and of effective ways of meeting
