Do we need more pupillages?

Thought provoking article by Zoe Saunders in The Lawyer on the continuing popularity of the BPTC despite the fact that the number of pupillages continues to fall. An expensive gamble at £10-15,000 per course… (via CharonQC). A good example for AS students of the uphill battle facing prospective barristers.

Tesco Law, John Lewis-style ads and ABSs [2 Apr 2012]
Quality problems for the judiciary? [8 Dec 2011]
Modern Legal Apprenticeships [27 Sep 2011]
On Duty [7 Sep 2011]
The Inns of Court [16 May 2011]
Less places and more competition [6 Apr 2011]
Solicitors: more of them, and more diverse. [4 Apr 2011]
No Bar to The Bar [22 Mar 2011]
Inequality in the profession - “more needs to be done” [8 Mar 2011]
Silk… [23 Feb 2011]
The two-year LLB [2 Feb 2011]
Free interactive resource! [25 Jan 2011]
A career in legal advice work? [24 Jan 2011]
How to be a city solicitor - and a podcast… [25 Aug 2010]
Judicial diversity [5 Jul 2010]
Pupillage…. getting fairer or wishful thinking? [21 May 2010]
The beginning of the end for Tesco Law? [31 Mar 2010]
Are law students being taken for a ride? [11 Dec 2009]
Tesco Law here we come? [19 Nov 2009]
Simon Myerson QC on life at the bar and advice on getting pupillage [26 Oct 2009]