Some Members of Parliament are calling for an official probe into the mass failure of law students who wrote the 2017-2018 final bar exams at the Ghana School of Law, of which 383 out of 474 students, representing 81% failed to make it to the bar.
According to the MPs, there is someting fundamentally wrong with both the teaching and learning process which must be investigated as soon as possible.
Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini in a radio interview after news about the mass failure broke said there should be a quick assessment of the process which prepared the students for the exams.
"Teachers set out to train people to pass, no teacher will set out to provide the course instructions for students to fail. Infact it tells on the teachers, the fact that only 91 out 474 students passed the examination."
"I'm calling for an investigation into how teaching is done at the law school, how knowldge is impacted, what are the intermediary steps that are put in place to asses the progress of students because as a teacher you have interim assessment.."he added.Â
According to Inusah Fuseini the mass failure is an indictment on both the school and teachers who prepared them for the exams.
Ghana School of Law: Law students attack 'illegal' Examination Board over 81% failure
 The Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law has demanded the outright scrapping of the Independent Examination Board, describing the body as illegal, amorphous and ineffective, over the marking of the 2017/2018 final bar exams which led to the failure of about 81% of students.
During a press conference held by the council, Wednesday, to register their displeasure at the results, the law students accused the Independent Examination body of being solely responsible for the alleged failure of about 465 students out of a total of 560 who wrote the exams.
The SRC president of the Ghana School of law, Sammy Gyamfi who spoke on behalf of the students stated that the Independent Examination body has failed to address the very problem for which it was established.
"The Independent Examination Board has lost its credibility in the law school so much that students had to boycott certain papers. The body should be scrapped completely for our lecturers who are more competent to examine and mark our scripts, then they can be proof-marked by an external body to ensure fairness,"
81% of law students fail to make it to the bar
Out of a total of 474 law students who wrote the 2017-2018 final bar exams at the Ghana School of Law, 383 students, representing 81% failed to make it to the bar.
Of the 81% recorded, 206 students are to repeat the entire course, while another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers.
Out of 474 students who sat for the 2017-2018 final exams, only 91 students representing 19% were deemed to have passed and will be called to the Bar.
The mass failure by the students comes at a time Parliament is seeking to legalize the entrance exams and interview processes instituted as part of the admission procedures into the Ghana School of Law.
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