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November 2012For immediate release
Leeds Law School appoints new Head
Leeds Metropolitan University has appointed Tom Macdonald as
Head of the
Leeds Law School.
Tom has taken up the position this month and joins the
Universitys Faculty of
Business and Law from the Solicitors Regulation Authority where
he was
Quality and Standards Manager within the Education and Training
Unit.
Tom commented: I am very happy to be joining Leeds Met at such
an
exciting time in the development of both the University and
legal education
and training generally. I look forward to working with the staff
and students
and our local and national partners to take the School from
strength to
strength over the coming years. I believe that our students have
the capacity
to become the leaders of the legal profession of the future, and
that we will
provide them with the skills and inspiration to make that vision
a reality.
Barbara Colledge, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at
Leeds
Metropolitan, added: I am delighted that Tom has joined us as
Head of our
Leeds Law School. We celebrate this academic year our 70th
anniversary of
delivering legal education in the city. Tom brings a breadth of
experience to
lead the next phase of our Law Schools history, to expand and
build our
international reputation for legal education and contribution to
the legal
profession.
Tom began his career as a Barrister specialising in criminal
defence and
prosecution. In 2003 he joined the teaching team on the Bar
Vocational
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Course (BVC) with BPP Law School, rising to become national
Director of
BVC Programmes.
In 2008 Tom became Dean of the School of Law at the Honorable
Society of
Kings Inns, Dublin, the sole provider of the Barrister-at-Law
Degree course in
Ireland.
In 2011 Tom returned to England and was appointed by the Bar
Standards
Board as Assistant Chief Examiner for Professional Ethics on the
Centralised
Examinations Board for the Bar Professional Training Course, and
joined the
Solicitors Regulation Authority as Quality and Standards Manager
in the
Education and Training Unit, before accepting the post of Head
of the Leeds
Law School this month.
Ends
For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the
Communications
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email
[email protected]
Notes for editors:
Leeds Metropolitan University has over 27,000 students and
around
3,000 staff.
The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is
Professor
Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of
Leeds.
Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment
and
Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences,
and
Carnegie.
Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding
of the
Mechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824.
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The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed
that
the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work,
further
study or both six months after leaving university was
91.87%.
Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was
awardedthe CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.
In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People
&
Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally
friendly
universities, for the sixth consecutive year.
