The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) President of Ghana School of Law Wonder Victor Kutor, has advocated the use of national dialogue in dealing with issues of annual massive failures in the entrance examination.
For him, use of national dialogue to resolving the issues of poor performance, is much preferable than the attempt by some to politicize it.
“Let us have a national dialogue on the issues surrounding Ghana School of Law entrance exams”.
The 2021 entrance Examinations to the Ghana School of Law, has recorded another poor showing, with failure of 78% recorded. The results released by GLC showed that out of 2824 students who sat for the entrance examination this year, only 790 have successfully passed, representing paltry 28%. This means 2034 applicants have failed to qualify.
This alarming rate of failures have caused some to call out the General Legal Council, with some also alleging it was due to infiltration by politicians.
However, responding to these issues, the SRC President of the Ghana School of Law brushed the political allegation aside, saying the issue has become a Ghanaian problem so there must be Ghanaian solution to it, hence his call for a national dialogue.
“As a potential lawyer, one will be careful how he speaks. You want to speak to fact and statistics not on motives and speculations. When you come to the law school there are processes. Our exams are set by independent examination committee, marked different body and the school is run by another body, so there are processes”.
“If you say politicians, then you have to bring an evidence. That is why I’m saying that when this issue cropped up, we should take away partisan politics and have a national dialogue. It is a Ghanaian problem and we ought to give it Ghanaian solution. But once we bring politics we will lose sight of the real issue” he said.
My worry is a lot of people want to politicize this issue but that should not be the case. Let’s have a national dialogue, let’s talk about support, let’s the scholarship fund, let’s get the corporate Ghana, the government institutions to support the scholarship secretariat so that even if you pass, you will be able to have a financial support for legal education in Ghana, he told Noel Nutsugah, host of Statecraft on Zylofon FM in an interview.
Mr. Kutor has also noted that, although the GLC has not accepted all the proposals presented to it for a reform, there are some positive strides that were made, adding that “we believe these are positive signs, but again we think it’s not enough”.
“In the past, students were examined on ten areas but it came to 6 but that 6 too, you have to attend an interview before you are admitted. But as we speak now, you just need to pass the 6 courses then after that you are admitted”.
If the issue is about space, then let’s call for funding so that the law village project can be completed to accommodate more students, Wonder Victor Kutor appealed.
