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- Title
Decile Snapshot: Socio-Economic Impact on Legal Education -- University of Auckland Case Study.
- Authors
STAGWOOD, ELLEN
- Abstract
Little information is available regarding trends in the proportion of individuals of low socio-economic backgrounds entering and succeeding in legal education in New Zealand. This article combines the Ministry of Education's secondary school decile rankings with student enrolment information obtained from the University of Auckland. Evidence presented here suggests that the number of students originating from decile 9 and 10 secondary schools is significantly higher than students originating from any other decile at all stages of the LLB and LLB(Hons) programmes at the University of Auckland. Meanwhile, students from the lowest two deciles in this snapshot appear to access and obtain legal education much less often than students of other decile backgrounds. Although significant limitations arise from this study's methodology, these findings suggest that there is a prominent correlation between the decile of the last secondary school that Auckland Law School students attend and their success in accessing and receiving legal education.
- Subjects
COLLEGE enrollment; LOW-income students; LEGAL education; UNIVERSITY of Auckland; RIGHT to education
- Publication
Te Mata Koi: Auckland University Law Review, 2018, Vol 24, p258
- ISSN
0067-0510
- Publication type
Article