The leadership of the student body of the Ghana school of Law says they are proposing alternatives to management of the school to create the option of fee paying students to admit more students into the school
This call comes after Two thousand and thirty-four (2,034) LLB candidates who sat for the 2020/2021 academic year Ghana School of Law 2021 Entrance Exams failed in the exams.
Of the 2,824 students from the various law faculties across the country who sat for the exam, only 790 of them passed representing approximately 28% while the failure represents 72%.
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The applicants were examined on six (6) subject areas that were; Constitutional law, Immovable property, Contract Law, Tort, Criminal Law, and Ghana legal system.
According to the Ghana School of Law President of the Students Representative Council (SRC), Wonder Victor Kutor, students who fail entrance examinations go outside the country to gain admission and come back to pass the bar exam. He added that this year alone, 65 percent of lawyers called to the Gambian Bar are Ghanaians.
In an interview monitored by ATL FM NEWS, Mr. Kutor indicated that they will petition parliament to allow students who fail three or more papers to re-write the exams rather than repeat the entire academic year.
“This is not to encourage failure but what we are saying is that, the students should proceed to part two and re-write the failed papers.” He added.
He indicated that what students do at the Ghana School of Law is a continuation from what is done at the faculty level and called for a national dialogue to the entrance exams issue
Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
