Ghana law students give General Legal Council 30-day ultimatum to re-mark scripts following mass failure

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law has given the General Legal Council (GLC) a 30-day ultimatum to re-mark the scripts of the 206 final law students who failed their professional exams.

This comes after the students rejected results saw 91 out of 474 students passing the final exams.

 The SRC however wants the re-marking to be done by an independent body other than the Independent Examination Board (IEB) instituted by the GLC to oversee the administration of exams.

According to him, the IEB has failed in its mandate to ensure transparency and effectiveness in the conduct of exams.
They are therefore calling on the GLC to dissolve the body and allow their lecturers to examine them; “and if there is any doubt as to the assessment of such scripts, the law school and the General Legal Council can allow independent people to re-mark such scripts.”
The student body is also demanding the marking scheme for which the 206 students were failed.

Source: Daily Graphic