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:
“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)
“The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone’s attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the ‘70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)