I re­al­ly like those Web sites like Tri­pAd­vi­sor.com and Book­ing.com where one can read peo­ple's re­views on the place they have vis­it­ed and the rat­ings giv­en be­tween one and five stars, with five be­ing the high­est. We should have a sim­i­lar rat­ing for our lo­cal law schools which of­fer the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don law de­gree.As some­one who went through the process–I at­tend­ed a lo­cal law school in Ch­agua­nas ten years ago to read for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don law de­gree–I found the law school I at­tend­ed to be ex­cel­lent, a re­al five-star rat­ing. My study bud­dies and I worked very hard and we are all qual­i­fied at­tor­neys to­day.

A friend is now pur­su­ing her first year of the law de­gree but has had a very dif­fer­ent ex­pe­ri­ence. A Port-of-Spain law school where she was reg­is­tered dis­ap­point­ed her bad­ly, and from the word on the street, she is cer­tain­ly one of many.Tu­tors did not turn up to teach or were un­avail­able; class­es were of­ten can­celled or changed at ei­ther short or no no­tice at all; the syl­labus was nev­er com­plet­ed; and treat­ment of stu­dents by man­age­ment was ex­treme­ly poor.

Mon­ey was spent and time wast­ed and all she end­ed up with was a sour taste. Gen­er­al­ly the whole ex­pe­ri­ence was neg­a­tive.So she de­cid­ed to in­ves­ti­gate oth­er op­tions and nat­u­ral­ly I steered her to check out what was avail­able in Ch­agua­nas. Al­though she was un­able to ac­cess the same law school I at­tend­ed as that course was not avail­able, she found an al­ter­na­tive law school al­so in the cen­tre of Ch­agua­nas and from day on has been ex­treme­ly hap­py. The dif­fer­ence in treat­ment, at­ti­tude, qual­i­ty ser­vice and pro­fes­sion­al­ism in Ch­agua­nas as com­pared to Port-of-Spain is like chalk and cheese.So, stu­dents, be warned! Do your re­search and lis­ten to the word on the streets. Check out be­fore sign­ing up. Not all law schools are the same!

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