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SQE1&2 Diploma at BPP University - UCAS

BPP University

Degree level: Postgraduate

SQE1&2 Diploma (Taught)

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

Trusted by over 260 of the leading law firms If you’re looking to become a solicitor, our SQE1&2 Diploma will give you the skills and knowledge you need to pass the SQE exams and succeed in practice. The first choice for SQE training

  • Benefit from maximum support including monthly skills and knowledge drop-in sessions, revision forums and 1-2-1s with your dedicated personal tutor
  • Access Bridge to the SQE as soon as you accept your place, with 40 hours of additional study covering Navigating the SQE, Legal Technology and Virtual Vacation Schemes to enhance your employability before the start of your SQE course
  • 6-month QWE placement contracts exclusively available for five of our students through our award-winning Pro Bono Centre.
  • Career Guarantee: if you don’t secure a relevant legal role within six months of passing SQE2, study our Career Boost package including a range of valuable employability courses for free.
How you’ll learn The SQE1&2 Diploma is taught via workshops to small groups of students. You’ll experience live, face-to-face teaching which provides an important social and collaborative learning environment. You’ll also benefit from our professionally experienced SQE tutors, who use their expertise to bring your studies to life. In addition to interactive workshops, you’ll benefit from our AI-driven adaptive learning platform, BPP Adapt. Adapt identifies our strengths and areas for improvement, so you can measure your progress and feel confident in your ability to pass the SQE exams. Online Classroom Live Study face-to-face at one of our law centres or opt for online study via Online Classroom Live, our premium virtual classroom. Online resources Our online course materials provide you with all you need to maximise your independent learning alongside live teaching. They allow you to work like a modern solicitor, accessing digital files and notes in a way that reflects future legal practice.

Modules

Our SQE1 Preparation focuses on the legal practice areas of what is collectively known as Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK). FLK is assessed in SQE1 which comprises two papers: FLK1 and FLK2. FLK consists of core areas of law covered in your law undergraduate degree or conversion course, plus the practice subject areas which you will learn in SQE1 Preparation. You'll receive learning materials that will refresh your memory and support your revision of the core areas of law you learned in your law undergraduate degree or law conversion course. What you'll revise:

  • Contract (FLK1)
  • Tort (FLK1)
  • Criminal Law (FLK2)
  • Land Law (FLK2)
  • Trusts (FLK2)
What you'll learn:
  • Business Law and Practice (FLK1)
  • Dispute Resolution (FLK1)
  • Criminal Law and Practice (FLK2)
  • Property Law and Practice (FLK2)
  • Wills and the Administration of Estates (FLK2)
Legal Services (FLK1), Professional Conduct (FLK1&2), Taxation (FLK1&2), Solicitors Accounts (FLK2) will also be covered together with helpful revision materials for the Legal System of England and Wales. SQE2 Training builds on the foundations laid in SQE1 Preparation and develops your understanding of key assessment criteria featured in the SQE2 exam. You’ll also experience live intensive coaching workshops that simulate the SQE2 assessments, with personalised feedback to help you build a personal development plan where you can pinpoint the specific areas you need to improve upon. It also offers extensive diagnostic testing, mock exam preparation and practice of tasks across all of the featured SQE legal contexts to fully prepare you for SQE2. You will develop the following skills that align to the areas of practice assessed in SQE2:
  • Case and matter analysis
  • Client interviewing and attendance note writing
  • Advocacy
  • Legal research
  • Legal writing
  • Legal drafting
- Negotiation skills

Assessment method

Our internal assessments count towards your Diploma award. For SQE1 Preparation, you’ll sit multiple-choice assessments, which are written in the same style as the SQE1 papers and reflect the required knowledge you will need to pass the external assessment. You’ll also be required to submit a portfolio of skills and a reflective statement to demonstrate the development of your core legal skills. SQE2 Training will be assessed in the following ways: a personal development plan, identifying areas of good practice and areas for your further development in preparation for your SQE2 centralised assessments; a 4,500 word personal reflective statement and a supporting portfolio of evidence.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Solicitors Regulation Authority

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

  • Course does not award QTS

Entry requirements

The entry requirements for the SQE1&2 Diploma are as follows: - 2:2 honours law degree that covers the following seven foundational areas of legal knowledge (Criminal Law, Equity and Trusts, Law of the European Union, Contract, Tort, Property/Land Law and Public Law) OR - 2:2 honours degree in a non-law subject (or overseas equivalent in any subject) and a minimum of a pass in a GDL/PGDL or CPE that covers the foundational areas of legal knowledge; OR - 2:2 honours degree in a non-law subject (or overseas equivalent in any subject) and have obtained a mark of 50% or more in our admissions test on the foundational areas of legal knowledge set by BPP University Law School; OR - Equivalent qualifications (such as ILEx/CILEx) - if your qualification does not cover all of the Foundational Topics, you will normally be required to study the missing topics on a GDL, CPE or equivalent

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £10300 Whole course
England £10300 Whole course
Northern Ireland £10300 Whole course
Scotland £10300 Whole course
Wales £10300 Whole course
Channel Islands £10300 Whole course
Republic of Ireland £10300 Whole course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.

Sponsorship information

To widen access to the legal profession, we offer an extensive range of funding options to ensure finance isn’t a barrier to a promising legal career.

SQE1&2 Diploma at BPP University - UCAS