Professions
Pathways to Law Pathways to Law, a £1.5m initiative developed by The Sutton Trust and The College of Law, was established in 2007 and is delivered by five universities – Leeds, London School of Economics, Manchester, Southampton and Warwick – in collaboration with the regional centres of the College of Law. The Pathways programme comprises a sustained series of interventions over two years: university-based sessions, including academic lectures and seminar discussions; careers and university advice; e-mentoring by current law students; a guaranteed work placement with a top law firm; a three-night residential conference; and the use of a library of law-related information and news.
Access Professions accessprofessions.com is a web portal to match young people with aspiration-raising opportunities in higher education and the professions, focused particularly on students from under-represented backgrounds. Launched in late 2010, it will work by young people registering with the site and entering key pieces of information - their examination grades, subject interests, career aspirations and background. They are then notified of programmes and events for which they might be eligible, whether that be summer schools, work experience, taster days or any of the other wealth of access-related activities out there.
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Famous quotes containing the word professions:
“I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. ‘Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“But this place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to th’ everlasting bonfire.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)