The federal government of Ghana has pointed out that it is looking into a request brought before it within the refusal of the Ghana College of Law to confess some 499 LLB cases who made the 50 percent mark. A letter agreed upon by Nana Asante Bediatuo said the government review the information of their petition and exchange its decision to the petitioners at a time to be communicated at a later time. Meanwhile, today, LLB slots who were denied admission right after making the pass indicate, some section of Ghanaians took to the streets of Accra to register their displeasure. They may be demonstrating to bring to the interest of the General Legal Authorities that it cannot engage in this kind of illegality. The students state they will take all indicates necessary to ensure that they are accepted to the School of Regulation. After results of the 2020 Entrance Examination Results regarding admission to the Ghana College of Law (GSL) had been praised as “progressive plus commendable”, this year “only” 28% who sat for the examinations this year passed. A distribution by the Independent Examination Panel of the General Legal Authorities (GLC) last year showed 1045 students passed the 2020 Law School Entrance Exam out of a total of 2720 candidates representing 38% move rate. This year however , 790 students out of 2824 approved representing a 28% move rate, a 10% fall. These two years are nevertheless far better than 2019 whenever only 128 students away from 1, 820 candidates exceeded the Ghana School associated with Law entrance exam, information systems for a mere 10%. The particular Management of the Ghana College of Law in response provides stated that the institution is usually considering introducing a three-way track system to increase enrolment in terms of improved passes. Based on the Director of the Ghana College of Law, Maxwell Opoku Agyeman, due to the large numbers accepted, the triple track program will enable them increase the use of their limited service. The new system, he stated, will also ensure that the every week academic timetable of classes become more time-efficient. “It’s not really double track, its multiple track if you want to use it, that is not a double track when you have in SHS. For instance , students are supposed to have twenty four hours per contact hours within a week. Meanwhile, if you increase, how many hours do you have in the week? Five days? ”“You realise that students were wasting time on campus doing nothing because all of us spread lectures, one each morning, maybe one in the evening, these day one in the morning, one at night. It’s waste of time. ”According to Mr Opoku Agyeman, the coronavirus pandemic provided candidates ample time to get ready adequately for the entrance examination which was written in Aug 2020. “This year (2020), what we did was that due to Covid…We gave them nearly 3 months notice for them to get ready for [the] examination and assured them the exam will take place at the end of Aug. So we gave them sufficient time to prepare”. Source: MyNewsGh. com/ 2021
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