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Principles in teaching and learning
Legal Professional Practice
The College will provide programs that:
- make explicit the core values of the legal profession
- are relevant to professional practice in different contexts
- reflect current law and legal practice
- promote best legal practice
- integrate work-based and academic learning
- enable College graduates to participate actively and responsibly in a diverse and changing profession.
Legal Education Best Practice
The College will provide programs that:
- are student focussed
- are informed by analysis of student learning outcomes and other data
- are informed by relevant research and scholarship
- use active learning strategies to engage students
- incorporate flexible learning technologies
- provide professional mentoring and support to students
- deliver practical and professionally relevant content
- are well organised and structured
- use assessment practices that support and enhance student learning
- are benchmarked wherever relevant with appropriate institutions engaged in similar academic fields or activities
- are facilitated by appropriately experienced and qualified lecturers with ongoing access to professional development.
Professional Legal Ethics
The College will provide programs that:
- give effect to the importance of academic integrity
- provide leadership and scholarship in professional ethics
- actively promote the principles of ethical behaviour in practice
- reflect current issues and research in professional legal ethics
- incorporate professional ethics directly or indirectly
- are delivered by staff who are professional role models
- encourage College graduates to be active and responsible legal professionals who contribute to the service of the community and the administration of justice.