The Bachelor of Laws programme, taught at the country’s universities, is headed for a major revamp after many institutions were found to be doing a shoddy job on aspects such as critical thinking. A report undertaken and released recently by the Council on Higher Education , the statutory body responsible for quality assurance, has recommended extensive changes to how the LLB is taught at 17 universities.
“It is recommended that all law faculties/schools undertake a curriculum reform exercise ,” said the report. All panels that visited law faculties were met with laments of sub-par writing and research skills among students. The complainants, which were largely lecturers, blamed the school system for this deficiency.
Institutions that the panels believed needed improvements in critical thinking skills teaching were the Nelson Mandela University, University of the Free State, University of Johannesburg, University of Limpopo, University of Venda, University of Pretoria and Walter Sisulu University.The report blamed large classes as “the most serious inhibiting factor” to the imparting of critical thinking. It recommended a major cut to the number of students accepted to LLB courses.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
That is urgently required. There is an over emphasis in public life on lawyers. The profession needs to be much stricter on the level of competence and ethics.
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