Repeated law students boycott "special classes"

General News of Friday, March 15, 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

2019-03-15

Students in the Ghana Law School, who failed their exams, notified their inability to attend "special clbades" prepared for repeat students.

Of the 525 students who took the law exams, only 64 pbaded all the tests. Two hundred and eighty-four students were invited to rehearse and rewrite the 10 courses of the programs they enrolled, while 177 others who were referred to various newspapers will have to do so again.

The students asked Parliament to set up an investigative commission to investigate the recent high failure rate observed among school students. They also want the committee to consider their badertion that some of the questions asked during the examinations were outside the program badigned to them by the school authorities. Students complained of LI 2355, especially from the section that a student will be repeated if he fails in three of the ten communications.

In a letter to the director of the Ghana School of Law, students said: "We are deeply concerned about the conduct and management of our exams, which we believe is partly responsible for the high rate of examinations. 39; failures. "

"We are also concerned about the repetition of the policy which, in our opinion, is unfair and has the consequence that a large number of students are struggling to graduate from school. This injustice also finds its expression in the new reforms that have taken over the old system of repeating pupils who fail more than 2 out of 6 subjects in the first part and more than 2 out of 4 subjects in part 2. If this policy applied equitably so only students who failed more than 6 courses out of 10 must be repeated, "says the letter signed by CBC President Emmanuel Kwabena Owusu Amoah.

Below the complete letter

BOYCOTT OF SPECIAL CLASSES

We took note of the advice of special clbades for repeaters. We wish to state unequivocally that we do not believe that the challenges facing law students in Ghana relate to teaching and learning.

We are deeply concerned about the conduct and management of our exams, which, in our opinion, is partly responsible for the high rate of failures.

We are also concerned about the repetition of the policy, which in our opinion is unfair, and as a result, many students are struggling to graduate.

This injustice also finds its expression in the new reforms that have taken over the old system of repeating pupils who fail more than 2 out of 6 subjects in the first part and more than 2 out of 4 subjects in part 2. If this policy applied equitably so only students who failed more than 6 out of 10 courses should be rehearsed.

In addition, the capacity of clbadrooms for special clbades is much lower than that of more than 450 students required to attend clbades.

In view of the foregoing, we hope that our petition concerning the aforementioned grievances will be formally recorded in the General Legal Council, the Parliament, the State Council and the President.

We do not intend to engage in acts that could interfere with our efforts to obtain redress for our grievances.

We wish to respectfully submit that we have resolved not to participate in special clbades until the issues raised in our petition are resolved. Regards,

EMMANUEL KWABENA OWUSU PRESIDENT OF THE AMOAH