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I have also taught, very briefly, on the Legal Practice Course, and I can sadly confirm as entirely accurate the picture painted by Olwen Davies. I have also taught law to undergraduates at a completely different institution and it didn't get any better there.

Not to put too fine a point on it cheating in the Higher Education sector is currently systemic and endemic, hence the need, in my opinion, for an externally set, properly invigilated, externally and anonymously marked exam at some point in the process of qualifying as a solicitor.

To then give the job of setting and marking the assessments in this new Solicitors' Qualifying Exam to a single training provider, (instead of, for example, getting experienced teachers from a number of training providers to set the exams and then other teachers from other training providers to anonymously mark the exam scripts, eventually, over the years, making use of very many teachers at all or virtually all the training providers in the country so that no one training provider becomes by virtue of setting and marking the assessments the place to be as far as prospective students are concerned), seems to me to be a profoundly retrograde step.