Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said the General Legal Council must shoulder a chunk of the blame for the mass failure experienced by students who have been attempting to enter into the Ghana Law School.
The former president’s comment follows a barrage of criticisms that have been directed at the GLC, following the mass failure in the 2019 Ghana Law School entrance examination.
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Mr Rawlings made his comments when the executives of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) paid a courtesy call on him last Thursday.
“Ninety-three per cent failure and you (GLC) think you can get away with blaming the students; you don’t blame the establishment, the institution,” he quizzed.
Mr Rawlings also revealed during the interaction that one of his daughters fell victim to what many describe as a crude pruning of law students wishing to enter the law school due to a lack of space.
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The Former President also condemned attacks on students who embarked on the ‘open-up legal education demonstration’ in October.
This year, only 128 students out of the 1,820 candidates who sat for entrance exams passed to be admitted.
Meanwhile, the GLC, the administrators of legal education in Ghana, have ignored calls for the publication of the marking scheme and students scripts saying students performed poorly.
Source: Adomonline.com | Gertrude Otchere
