The percentage of law graduates signing up to full-time vocational law study fell last year, with 26.4% of 2010 graduates embarking on further study or training in the UK within six months of leaving university, according to new research.

The number of graduates signing up for the Legal Practice Course, Bar Professional Training Course and ILEX courses was down 3.7% on the previous year, according to an annual survey of graduate destinations from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU).