The Pathways to Law programme has been running for 15 years in partnership with leading universities and with over 100 employers supporting our work in that time.
We know that our programme has a positive impact on the young people who participate – our data from the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) demonstrates this. For example, of students that go on to study at university, they are more likely to attend a research-intensive university (73%) and are more likely to study law (+7%), than those who applied for our programme and did not get a place. We also know that of the most recently graduated group (2019/2020 programme) 28% are working in the legal profession already.
Alongside these numbers, we decided to find out more about the specific stories and career destinations of alumni from our earlier programmes. By surveying a wide spread of alumni dating back to our 2007/8 inaugural cohort, we’ve gained some useful insights and individual stories from across the last 15 years.
We reached out to around 2,800 alumni who participated in the programme between 2007 and 2017. We heard from 12% of this group (324 alumni) who responded to share their experience since being on the programme. Results were overwhelmingly positive across all respondents, regardless of their career path. The value of experiencing a sector and being able to make an informed choice is evident and specifically cited throughout many of the qualitative comments.
