The Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law will be leading a protest on Monday, October 7.
This development follows the latest instance of mass failure during an entrance examination at the Ghana School of Law.
In the recent entrance exam, only 128 of the 1,820 candidates who sat passed.
Before this, only 64 out of the 525 students who sat for the Bar exam in 2018 passed; with 284 of them failing and 177 being referred.
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In a statement, the SRC said it plans to also present a petition to President Nana Akufo-Addo.
“While we prepare to demonstrate, we are all encouraged to post on all social media platforms about our plight using #OpenUpLegalEducation and #RedMonday,†the statement also said.
The statement also announced the SRC’s intention to form a group called the National Association of Law Students.
This will include immediate Past Presidents of the law students’ associations of some law faculties and other student leaders.
Previous agitations from the SRC of the School prompted the setting up of a Committee by the General Legal Council to probe mass exams failure at the Ghana School of Law and oversee reforms at the School.
Mass failure needs interrogation - Ben Abdallah
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''.