The Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee Ben Abdallah Banda says the mass failure recorded in this year’s Ghana School of Law entrance examination needs to be interrogated.
According to him, the mass failure recorded in the entrance examination of the Ghana School of Law is becoming a national issue hence its interrogation to reveal circumstances leading to such volume of failures annually.
The Member of Parliament for Offinso South indicated that leaders of Parliament will delve into the issue of mass failure when Parliament resumes sitting since it's going beyond the independent examination council and other bodies in the Ghana School of Law.
In an interview on Starr FM, Mr Banda said proper examination needs to be attached to the issue to find a lasting solution.
''We need to have a look and do a lot of introspection and come out with solution that can stand the test of time and turn the mass failure of students that have caused continual trouble in the country's legal education sometime now. As chairman of the committee, I havent finished thinking of it and more especially when Parliament is on recess I don't know whether some students will be bringing a petition to us as a result to which our jurisdiction will be triggered.
''What I can say is that lets wait and see when Parliament resumes, probably leaders of Parliament who may have heard of this matter may be interested in it and probably pick up the issue because this is becoming a national issue, it is going beyond the students, it is going beyond the general legal council, independent examination body and is becoming more or less like a national issue which we will need to interrogate''.Â
Entrance exams: Mass Failure hits Ghana School of Law again
The Ghana School of Law has recorded another case of mass examination failure only months after a similar one was witnessed which saw more than half of the candidates for the Bar exams failing.
This time around, the mass failure was recorded at the entrance exams.
Of the nearly 1,820 prospective students, only 128 reportedly passed the entrance examination.
A notice at the school on Tuesday showed that more than 90 percent of those who sat for the entrance exam failed to obtain the requisite marks to secure admission.
This is not the first time such a high number of candidates had failed in the School of Law entrance exams.
Though the results are yet to be contested by any of the students, they show a sharp decline in the numbers admitted into the School in previous years.
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In 2017, 500 students were admitted into the School, slightly higher than the 450 students in 2016.
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