NAB, GLC to improve the level of legal training

GNA
Journalist

Accra, April 29, GNA –
The National Accreditation Office (NAB) and the General Legal Counsel (GLC) have
agreed on the need for strict quality control measures to improve the teaching
and learning law programs at the tertiary level.

Both institutions
agreed to undertake review and evaluation visits to all institutions
law programs.

A statement signed by
Mr. Lawrence Kwarteng-Ashia, NAB Public Relations Officer, with a copy to the Secretariat
Ghana News Agency in Accra, said the decision had been taken at a meeting between
both institutions to refine plans on how best to improve and deal with
challenges that legal education faces in the country.

The general legal
The Council is the statutory body responsible for regulating professional legal education
in Ghana.

Justice Jones Dotse, a
Supreme Court finds concerned about mbadive failure of students
aspiring to be lawyers, hence the need for both institutions to work together to
improve standards in the legal educational space.

Dr. Kingsley Nyarko,
Acting Executive Secretary of NAB, said that post-accreditation exercises such
like academic visits of audit, control and investigation, among others
Council will adopt to ensure that institutions comply with
conditions for granting accreditation.

Professor Kofi
Awusabo-Asare, President of the National Board of Accreditation, again stressed
how important it was for both institutions to carry out joint monitoring
activities at 15 higher education institutions offering law programs
ensure that minimum standards are maintained.

Among the issues
at the meeting were the minimum requirements for entry into the law programs,
qualifications and staffing levels and physical facilities,
financial and other resources required for the operation of the law programs.

Your statement says
among other areas on which the two institutions will focus during the
The monitoring exercise is to verify compliance with approved standards.

Some members of
Presidents of the GLC, Professor Ofori Amankwah, Judge Sir Dennis Adjei, M.
Henry K. Prempeh-ECK, Mr. Franklina Adanu, Mr. Anthony Forson Jnr, Mr. Amoako
Adjei, Mr. Peter Kornor and Justine Amenuvor.

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