Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Mr Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie has advised law students and schools offering the law programme to drop the programme for now.
Speaking on Happy FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’, he said that, “Till the General Legal Council explains reasons behind the regular mass failure of students trying to enter the Ghana School of Law, I advise students to drop the programme temporarily.”
According to him, students in the various law faculties in universities across Ghana are pushed to be the best and lecturers are devoted to their studies. ”They make sure that you learn, so why is it that these fine products they have nurtured have been woefully failed”, he queried.
“The entrance examination is not a qualifying course to anything. Once you have the Literally Legum Baccalaureus (LLB), you should be eligible to enter the law school without going through the undue stress of an entrance exam”, he said.
Across the world, anyone with an LLB can continue to study law without having to write any entrance exam to enter into law school. It is only in Ghana that the LLB is a starting point that requires one to write an entrance exam.
Over 90 per cent of students who sat for this year’s Ghana School of Law entrance examination failed to make the cut for admission.
Results showed that of the 1,820 candidates who sat for the entrance exams, only 128, representing 7 per cent passed.
The mass failure comes on the back of a similar failure in the Ghana Bar exams few months ago. More than 90 per cent of the 727 students who wrote that exams failed, sparking agitation amongst the students.
By: Joel Sanco
