A GROUP of employees from a Manchester-based legal accounting firm have become the first to take advantage of a unique partnership between their employers and the University of Chester.
All of the employees work as legal cashiers for Quill and are responsible for managing the accounts of solicitors and legal companies who are their clients.
The employees were presented with professional certificates in legal accounting during a small ceremony at the university last week.
The course was delivered through the work-based integrative studies (WBIS) framework, which sees the lectures delivered within the work place rather than on campus.
Many of the employees who completed the programme are in their first job after leaving school or college, and have never had the opportunity to participate in Higher Education before.
Connie Hancock, the programme leader at the university, said: “We are proud that the students on the course have achieved such success in reward for their efforts.
“Throughout the duration of the course they have worked hard and have been really receptive to the lectures.”