The Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law has called for a remarking of the papers of the bar examination that saw 81% of students failing.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, President of the student lawyers, Sammy Gyamfi, told the media and his colleagues, who were clad in red, that he and his executives will ensure that the Independent Examination Body which conducts examination for the School of law is scrapped.
The call comes after only 91 students out of the 474 who sat the exams passed to be called to the bar. A total of 206 law students are to repeat the entire course whilst another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers.
Meanwhile, the founder of Mountcrest University Professor Kwaku Ansa-Asare has backed calls for the scrapping of the Independent Examination Body (IEB).
Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Wednesday, Professor Ansa-Asare who is former head of the Ghana School of Law said the IEB has outlived its relevance.
“The IEB is an unknown entity. Why do we retain them at all? I support the call for the IEB to be scrapped. It is not backed by law. Nobody knows the professional qualification of the IEB. IEB was introduced in 2012, there is no law backing it and so it is lacking legality,” he said.
Constitutional lecturer Professor Kwaku Asare who has also publicly spoken against actions of the General Legal Council, says the mass failure of the students is illogical.
“They GLC should look at the man in the mirror and stop blaming everybody but themselves. The problem is the quality of education the students at the Ghana School of Law receive. In my mind, it defies logic for about 80% of the law students to fail entrance exams.
“I call on parliament to call on legal examiners to review the examination we are talking about. I don’t understand why the IEB will continue to conduct entrance Exams for Law students when the Supreme Court has said otherwise. In December, I wrote an open letter to the President on the IEB and I met him in January. These things cannot be allowed to go on because they violate the laws,” the accounting lecturer argued on the Morning Starr.
Also, Minority chief which Muntaka Mubarak has said the situation is being orchestrated to make law education the privilege of a few individuals.
“I’m a member of Parliament and I need to represent my constituents, you hear them saying that it is some deliberate attempt by some people to make legal education a privilege of a few, so that there will not be enough, so that the few that are there become a privileged few”.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com
