The former Director of the Ghana Law School, Kwaku Ansah Asare, is attributing the mass failure recorded in the final bar exams at the Ghana Law School to social media.
According to him, the students spend the time for learning on social media platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook due to their addition.
Mass failure was recorded after 81% of the prospective lawyers failed their exams administered by the Independent Examination Board (IEB).
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Ninety-one students out of a total of 474 students passed this year’s exams to be graduated. 170 have been referred to re-sit one or two failed papers and 295 students are set to repeat the entire course.
The results have led to renewed calls for the scrapping of the IEB set up in 2013.
But Mr. Anasah Asare on Adom News said the students are to blame for not taking their studies seriously.
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“The present generation of law students don’t devote their time for law studies. We are always whatsapping or playing with phones while in class”, he bemoaned.
The former Director of the Ghana Law School added that, students during the exams, don’t read the instructions properly hence the mass failure.
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On the way forward, Mr. Anasah Asare urged the students who have failed to take their studies seriously if they want to practice law in the country.
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In a quick rebuttal, Vice President of the Students’ Representative (SRC), Nicholas Lenin Anane Agyei has refuted claims by the former director.
He is convinced that Mr. Anasah Asare is making such assertion because he is not abreast with modern trends.
Nicholas Anane Agyei cited how some lecture notes are sent to them via whatsapp and other social media platforms by their lecturers to buttress his point.
He maintained that, it would be wrong for anyone to assume that social media is the cause of their failure.
