Review eligibility(prior degree) for the Masters loan for the LLM Legal Practice

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What the petition asks

A long distance Masters degree, which I struggled to pay for in instalments, has now made me ineligible to apply for a Postgraduate loan to study the Legal Practice Course, which I need to become a solicitor. I now face trying to fund this course via expensive loans or not qualifying at all.

Law graduates who struggled to privately fund a Masters as they could not afford the LPC, are not-eligible for the Post graduate loan. The LPC is the main practice course which enables them become Solicitors. The additional LLM on top of the Legal Practice Course(LPC) is an additional dissertation to qualify the LPC for the Masters Loan. I pray that the eligibilty rule which exempts Law graduates with a previous higher qualification from applying for a Masters loan to study the LPC be reviewed.

Timeline

21 Sep 2018	Petition opened for signatures
21 Mar 2019	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 36

Status Closed

Opened 21 Sep 2018

Closed 21 Mar 2019

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