Two budding barristers are inspiring lawyers of the future with the story of Snow White thanks to DMU's acclaimed graduate employability scheme.
IDEAS: Jasmin (left) and Amna (right) at graduation with their friend Humaira Ahmad.
Jasmin Mohamed and Amna Mansoor, who both graduated from the Law LLB course this summer, have been working as Graduate Champions with DMU’s award-winning Square Mile to get primary school pupils in Leicester excited about law using the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
The innovative Graduate Champions scheme offers recent graduates the chance to take up a six week long internship with a leading UK organisation to enhance their CV and help them stand out from the crowd in a furiously competitive jobs market. The champions are paid the living wage by DMU and work 18.5 hours a week.
For DMU graduates, these placements bring sought-after opportunities to gain valuable insight into graduate-level work that is relevant to their chosen degree and the career path they wish to follow, while business people have free access to some of the brightest and best young talent in the UK today. Those on the scheme are paid the Living Wage by DMU.
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Jasmin, from Leicester, said: “We have been working on this idea for almost six weeks now. It’s all about creating and designing a legal project to take into primary schools in September.
“We are communicating it to them through role play, board games and question and answer sessions, all for two hours after school – but the big thing for us is the role play. We’re using the story of Snow White to talk about law and help the school children understand it better.”
The session involves putting the Queen on trial for the attempted murder of Snow White, and takes place over three or four weeks.
Amna, also from the city, said: “This is a great opportunity both to help school children learn and to get them interested in a law career in the future, and it helps us, too.
“After a year out I’ll be looking for a job in the law or going into a legal practice course, so this is really good experience.
“I would recommend Graduate Champions as it helps you in a lot of aspects and builds you up as a person.”
Jasmin also reflected on her time at DMU. She said: “It has been a very interesting three years and I have learnt a lot.
“I think it is great that we are doing something like this because obviously once you finish most people look for the next step and to have an experience like this you gain a lot of skills that you don’t think you actually would. The framework of our project will be used by other volunteers in the future so I can’t wait to get out to schools and see how it works.”
The applications for the winter round of Graduate Champions, to be completed in December 2015 and January 2016, will open later this year. It is available to those who graduated from their undergraduate degree at DMU in summer 2015. Keep an eye on the DMU website for details.
Posted on Monday 3 August 2015