For further information on the LPC, read The LPC - it's a Serious Business and The LPC - which provider?

Here are the 38 LPC Providers together with brief ratings. For full assessments see the Solicitors Regulation Authority website (www.sra.org.uk/lpc)

Aberystwyth University

Last graded: December 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Confidence in the provision

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Confidence in the provision

Quality assurance and enhancement: Confidence in the provision

Anglia Ruskin University

Last graded: November 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Birmingham City University (formerly known as University of 
Central England)

Last graded: May 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Bournemouth University

Last graded: March 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Last graded: November 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

BPP Law School, Leeds

Last graded: April 2008 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

BPP Law School, Manchester

Last graded: December 2005 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

BPP Law School, Waterloo

Last graded: December 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Commendable practice

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Last graded: January 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Cardiff Law School

Last graded: November 2005 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

No grading details available at time of going to press.

The College of Law, Birmingham

Last graded: January 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

The College of Law, Chester

Last graded: January 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Last graded: November 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

The College of Law, London (Bloomsbury)

Last graded: November 2005 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

The College of Law, London (Moorgate)


Last graded: December 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

The College of Law, York

Last graded: April 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

De Montfort University

Last graded: October 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Commendable practice

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

University of Glamorgan

Last graded: May 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Confidence in the provision

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

University of Hertfordshire

Last graded: October 2006 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

University of Huddersfield

Last graded: March 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Confidence in the provision

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Confidence in the provision

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Inns of Court School of Law

Last graded: March 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Last graded: December 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

University of Central Lancashire

Last graded: May 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Commendable practice

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Leeds Metropolitan University

Last graded: March 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Commendable practice

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Confidence in the provision

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Liverpool John Moores University

Last graded: February 2008

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Confidence in the provision

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

London Metropolitan University

Last graded: February 2005 Grade: Good (old grading system)

Strengths: Diverse student body; Strong careers/pastoral support

Manchester Metropolitan University

Last graded: November 2005 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Northumbria University

Last graded: April 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Last graded: May 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

Last graded: February 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

University of Plymouth

Last graded: February 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confideince in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

University of Sheffield

Last graded: March 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Commendable practice

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Staffordshire University

Last graded: April 2007 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

University of Swansea

Last graded: May 2008 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

Thames Valley University

Last graded: November 2006 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Commendable practice

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Confidence in the provision

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Commendable practice

University of Westminster

Last graded: October 2005 (new grading system)

All areas of assessment: Commendable practice

University of Wolverhampton

Last graded: March 2007 (new grading system)

Teaching, learning and the curriculum: Confidence in the provision

Assessment: Confidence in the provision

Students and their support: Commendable practice

Learning resources: Commendable practice

Leadership and management: Commendable practice

Quality assurance and enhancement: Confidence in the provision