Former New Patriotic Party [NPP] Constituency Chairman for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Michael Omari Wadie has disputed some moves taken by authorities of the Ghana Law School.
To him, the fact that a student did not pass a particular paper does not mean they are not qualified to continue their studies or not good enough to be promoted to the next level per the curricular of the school.
He was alluding to a press release from authorities of the Ghana School of Law, which shows that 91 students out of a total of 474 students passed this year’s exams to be graduated, 177 have been referred to re-sit one or two failed papers and 206 students are set to repeat the entire course.
“Is it that authorities of the school want to use this yardstick as a means of generating more funds for the school? Because I know definitely that the failed papers will come with re-sit fees whiles the 206 students who are to repeat the entire course will at all cost pay fees as fresh students”, he said.
Speaking on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ panel discussion, Mr. Omari Wadie urged members of the General Legal Council to revisit the issue and be a bit considerate.
Pressure is building for the scrapping of the Law School's Independent Examination Board (IEB) following the catastrophic failure in the 2017 Bar exams.
The former Director of the Ghana Law School, Kwaku Ansah-Asare, and President of the Students' Representative Council (SRC), Samuel Gyamfi, are united in their conviction, the exams body has no legal backing.
Their comments follow an outcry by law students disappointed at the results of the 2017 Bar exams.
Mass failure was recorded after 81% of the prospective lawyers failed the exams administered by the Independent Examination Board.
The results have led to renewed calls for the scrapping of the IEB set up in 2013.
It was formed to address frequent examination leakages after lecturers were asked to set questions. The identities of the examiners are hidden and there are no direct contacts to the examiners some of whom are reported to be residing outside the country.
But the IEB has no law backing its operations.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Going by your argument,Mr. Wadie,then a professional body like ICAGH is fabulously rich. Do you know how many students fail the ICA exams every year and have to re-register to write those papers? We all need to support improvement of the current system but this does not mean that majority of the students who have failed did not deserve to fail. I am a lecturer in a tertiary institution and I worry for the future of our country when I mark scripts. Standards have fallen so much. By all means,everybody must have a fair opportunity to education. But when you fail,you work harder and pass next sitting. If you are super confident that you ought to have passed,you apply for re-marking.
After completing SUCCESSFULLY a three year JD law degree(equivalent to the LLB Degree) examination at a law school, the JD student sits for and writes a BAR EXAMINATION.A state legally set up independent examiners board sets the questions,supervises the examinations and grades the examination scripts.The examining boards law exams course subject outline is distributed to every law school.
They need to filter them,when I was young I used to revere lawyers. I used to how a relative a renowned surgeon used to respect his cousin who was a lawyer but today if u listen to some of them in the media I wonder how they got there.
GHANA NEED THE BEST. FAIL IS FAIL.