It has emerged that students of the Ghana Law School (GLS) pay as much as GH₵ 3,000 for the remarking per each script they may not feel satisfied about.
The revelation is contained in a press statement issued by the Students Representative Council of the Law School following an 81% mass failure recorded by the school in a recently released examination results.
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Results made available by the school’s examination body indicate that only 91 students passed all ten courses of the examinations with about 170 students being referred in one or two courses and about 295 students failing three or more causes thereby repeating the course.
It was in the light of these results that the SRC statement signed by its Secretary, Abena O. Asare-Boye, revealed that for each paper that a student wants remarked, they will have to cough out an amount of GH₵ 3,000.
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The students have, however, served notice to the General Legal Council (GLC) about their unwillingness to pay such an amount.
“We reject, outright, the remarking fee of GHS 3000 per script, as same is unconscionable, unreasonable and absurd. Students cannot simply afford it. We shall therefore petition the GLC for the reduction of the remarking fee from GHS 3000 to GHS 500 per script”, the statement said.
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Students of the school have been agitating since the release of the results by the Independent Examination Board (IEB) and have declared Wednesday, February 21 as a Red Day to showcase their concerns to the public.
They have also asked the GLC to appoint another body to remarks their examinations in the face of what they perceive as unfairness on the part of the IEB.
“In line with the rules of natural justice that a man cannot be a judge in his own court, the IEB cannot be in charge of the remarking of the scripts concerned” the statement read.
We cannot trust that the IEB will be candid enough to expose their own flaws. We are therefore calling on the GLC to appoint credible independent and professional examiners to mark all failed scripts again,” the SRC statement added.