Awaiting your A/L results? Start your Law studies now
View(s):Students who have just completed their A/Levels can embark on studying law at CFPS Law School, without waiting for their A/Level results.
Law has been described as a multi-disciplinary subject, opening many career opportunities for those who qualify. A student who has done the A/Levels in Arts, Science, Commerce or Maths can pursue a career in law.
CFPS Law School at Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7 offers its students a range of options in studying law. Only the CFPS Law School offers its students such a wide range of options.
LLB Degree / Diploma in Law
The CFPS Law School, which is a Registered Centre of the University of London, will commence an intake for the Diploma in Law/ LL.B. Programme of the University of London in September, for local A/Level students awaiting their results and those London A/Level students who have just received their results. This degree will enable students to thereafter enter Sri Lanka Law College and to do their Attorneys-at-Law exams.
The Diploma in Law is essentially for students who do not meet the entry requirement for the LLB degree, either because they are just after O/L s or are pending A/Level results or because their A/L grades do not meet the entry requirements. The Diploma in Law is equal to the first year of the LL.B. and students qualifying the Diploma proceed to the second year of the LL.B.
Law College Entrance Examination
Students awaiting their A/Level results can also opt to join the CFPS Law School’s Law College Entrance Classes commencing on September 1st. The CFPS prepares students for the highly competitive Law College Entrance Examination in 2014. Under the new syllabus students will be required to sit for a paper in General Knowledge and Intelligence and Language. The CFPS has had an excellent track record of preparing students for the Law College Entrance Examination.
Qualified Lecturers
Situated in the heart of Colombo 7, CfPS Law School boasts of experienced and talented lecturers who are academics and practitioners. Students can either join the full time LLB/ Diploma in Law programme or the part time LLB programme held during the weekends. The Law College Entrance Classes are held on Sundays.
Opportunities for Students
Students joining CfPS Law School’s Degree and Diploma Programmes are offered a variety of opportunities. Among them is the Internship Programme where students in the 2nd and 3rd years are given the opportunity of interning with senior members of the legal profession. There is a vibrant student life at CfPS. The CfPS mooting and debating society offers students an opportunity to improve their legal and court room skills preparing them for the legal profession. Students are taken on visits to Parliament and the Courts.
The CfPS Law School has opened an immeasurable door to the Sri Lankan youth to gain a prestigious celebrated law degree for a comparatively affordable price, which otherwise would cost millions of rupees.
Law offers students a range of career and career development options.
Professor Jenny Hamilton Head of Undergraduate Laws of the University of London who addressed the Open Day of the CFPS Law School recently pointed out that the prestigious University of London LL.B. offers students an opportunity not only to enter the legal profession, but also develops many other skills that are useful in employment.
Professor Jenny Hamilton observed that the CFPS had demonstrated a high standard of support for students in preparing for their examinations in Laws of the University of London.
Those in many other fields such as medicine, engineering, accountancy, management and marketing look to a law qualification to enhance their knowledge about legal matters which they come across in their work.
The University of London is one of the United Kingdom’s world class Universities and several of its Colleges including the King’s College, the University College of London and the London School of Economics are ranked among the top Universities in that country for Law.
Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne Secretary to the Ministry of Higher Education, at that event, praised the range of activities at the CFPS Law School and observed that Institutions such as the CFPS Law School open the doors of learning to many Sri Lankan students who would otherwise not be able to read for an internationally recognised degree such as those awarded by the University of London.
He observed that programmes such as these are very much in line with the higher education policy of the government.
SUBJECT OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS
The Law School has many students studying law, ranging from young school leavers to those in different professions. Apart from the compulsory subjects such as Public Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Common Law, the Law School offers a number of optional subjects including Commercial Law, Company Law, Intellectual Property Law and European Union Law.
TRACK RECORD
Alumni of CFPS Law School are today practicing lawyers while others are working in international organisations and public and commercial establishments. The CfPS Law School, boasts of an alumnus of over 4,000 lawyers in Sri Lanka, and has for many years produced the highest number of entrants to the Sri Lanka Law College.
At the May/June 2013 University of London examinations CFPS Law School recorded a pass rate of 90% at the final year examinations, with several students obtaining second upper divisions at the LL.B.
The CFPS Law School is situated at 151 Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7 and is contactable on 0114618866 or 0112421665 or on email at info@cfpslawschool.com. Its Facebook pages are CFPS Sri Lanka and CFPS Law School and the web site is www.cfps.lk
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