Our committees

Education and Training Committee

Members

• Dr Susan Bews  - chair
• Cindy Leslie  - member
• Lucy Winskell  - member
• Damien Day - member
• Chitra Karve - member
• Louise Meikle - member
• Sheree Peaple - member
• Steven Vaughan - member

Terms of reference

Policy activity

• To set, on behalf of the SRA Board, effective standards for entry to the profession and the associated framework for assessment against those standards.
• To set, on behalf of the SRA Board, effective standards for ongoing post-qualification development; and arrangements to enable members of the profession to maintain and enhance their skills and knowledge and to demonstrate their professional competence.
• To set, on behalf of the SRA Board, effective arrangements for the recognition of qualifications of lawyers qualified in other jurisdictions and to oversee, monitor and report on decisions made in this context.
• To advise the SRA Board on policy and guidance on legal education and training practice and procedures.
• To determine policy on matters concerning the authorisation and monitoring of education, training and assessment providers that are recognised for regulatory purposes by the board.
• To oversee and review activities which promote information and understanding about qualifying as a solicitor.

Quality assurance activity

• To provide oversight of the authorisation, re-authorisation and monitoring of all pre- and post-admission courses, schemes and other quality assurance activities.
• To provide oversight of the activities of the Joint Academic Stage Board and to ensure that it operates within its terms of reference.
• To review, as necessary, the decision-making process for individual awards of authorisation, re-authorisation and following monitoring visits including the provision of an appellate function for the activities of the Joint Academic Stage Board.
• To provide reports to the board, on the adequacy of arrangements for ensuring that authorisation, re-authorisation and monitoring of course and scheme providers are of appropriate quality and consistency.
• To alert the board, to any trends emerging from the reports provided by monitors and/or technical advisers, concerning the quality of training and assessment providers, the costs of training and assessment and/or the numbers of students/professionals seeking training and/or assessment, or other matters, as the committee sees fit.
• To monitor and provide periodic reports to the board on access to the profession and the impact of the qualification process on equality groups.
• To monitor and provide periodic reports to the board on the adequacy of arrangements for ensuring that casework decisions relating to education, training and development matters, including on character and suitability to be admitted as a solicitor, are of appropriate quality and consistency.