Law Faculty gives reasons

The Faculty concentrated on the increased staff pressures and worsening teaching environment that increased enrolments caused as their main reasons for the cuts. Also high up in their high-brows was a concern for the Faculty's academic standards vis-a-vis other law schools in the country.

Increased use of Socratic teaching methods meant that class sizes had to stay at 'reasonable' levels. Generally staff/student ratios were seen as too high and unlikely to change through increased staff due to general educational cutbacks with the current government.

The concern for academic standards stemmed from the rising academic criteria for other law schools. Students ('poorer students' in the Faculty's view) who failed their criteria could come to Vic to study thus 'lowering' academic standards. Also, even if Vic's standards failed to change they would still start dropping behind other law schools relatively and the Vic degree would become as often devalued as the Israeli pound.