I know the end of the current London LLM program has been reported on this board. This LLM programme is being withdrawn and will be replaced by a new Postgraduate Laws programme in 2005. No new registrations for the current programme will be accepted after 30 November 2004. The last examinations for the current programme will be held in 2009. But I have not seen any mention of the fact that the new program costs more than three times as much as the current one. I wonder if one can expect to learn three times as much. Soon to be dead: costs around £2,000 (if completed in the minimum of two years) New program: £6,040 for a full LLM Sources: http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/postgraduate/panel/llm_04/index.shtml http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/postgraduate/panel/llm/index.shtml
Maybe we sent too many people to the program, giving London the idea that it was popular... ...so they decided to start gouging people.
True, the 6000-pound price is more than the current program (or programme) but it is still in the lower range of British university masters degrees that range from 5500 pounds to 10,000 pounds for non-EU students. Even some of the London external masters are priced in the 7500 to 9000 pound range. And, these are law degrees…… Best wishes----Jim
LLM UK Yes, while speaking with a Professor of a prominent Toronto university, we were discussing UK schools and their heavy involvment in the field of distance education. Himself, a graduate of a UK school, appeared disappointed when I told him about the high tuition fees for overseas students. However, he was happy his present school had not ventured outside of the traditional classroom and watered down (not his words--paraphrased) the quality of education with a proliferation of DL programming. Alas, UofL has revamped many of their external programmes, including the LLM program.
Re: LLM UK I think that the professor “makes a virtue of necessity.” That Canada generally has not developed distance learning (or teaching) (with a few notable exceptions) is not surprising since they are still underdeveloped in such new fangled ideas (in 1950) like night school (no law or engineering programs), semestered intakes (i.e., not just September), articulation between community colleges and universities (or even transferability between universities), and graduate 'conversion' programs for undergraduates of different majors. I think that part of the problem lies in the chronic under funding of the (publicly funded) university system (at least in Ontario) which also results in the lowest rate of curriculum innovation in the English speaking world. (Incredibly, only recently has Canada offered an undergraduate degree in IT or IS and none at the graduate level) How limiting opportunity in education serves any advanced economic jurisdiction is a mystery to me.
