Education

Welcome to the wide and wonderful world of Education!

Blackstone should be your first port of call if you have any questions or concerns about anything to do with the education you’re getting. This can range from complaints about the way a unit is run to questions about the way you should be structuring your degree, to problems with the way a unit is assessed. The Education Vice President and the Education Year Reps are your first port of call for anything to do with your law degree. Please do not hesitate to send us an email or grab us around the Courtyard.

Law School Education Committee

Each month, Blackstone President Henny Smith and Education Vice President Clare McKay attend the Law School Education Committee meeting. The Education Committee is the peak body in the UWA Law School which deals with issues such as assessment, profiling of grades, core and elective units and many other matters. The Education Committee is also one of the driving forces behind the Law School’s transition to the new JD framework of graduate law, commencing at UWA in 2010.

Monthly Guild Education Council

Blackstone also participates in the monthly Guild Education Council meeting, which is attended by all of the Faculty Societies on campus. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss matters of educational concern, work together to achieve greater gains for students by increasing lobbying power, and also to raise the standard of Faculty Societies by sharing successful strategies and comparing notes on what each has achieved. Each Faculty provides a report detailing the operations of their respective Faculty Society over a given month.

To keep informed about everything Blackstone is doing for its student members, please feel free to read the Blackstone Report to the Guild Education Council.

Education Portfolio

The Education portfolio also includes other things, such as:

Follow the links on this page or on the main page to find out more about these.

There are some big changes happening in education over the next few years: the law school is planning a change to its curriculum, UWA is reviewing the way it structures all of its courses, and the new federal government is looking at the entire higher education sector, from funding models to the impact of VSU on student services. Blackstone is committed to being involved in all of these changes, to make sure that the interests of law students are always considered. If you want to get your voice heard in this process too, then make sure you come and have a chat and let us know what you think. That way, Blackstone’s representation can be about you.

Clare McKay, Education Vice President (educationvp@blackstone.asn.au)

Lauren Separovich, Fourth Year Education Representative (4th.year.ed@blackstone.asn.au)

Krystal Ng, Third Year Education Representative (3rd.year.ed@blackstone.asn.au)