University of Liberia empty after 25,000 students fails entrance exam
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[QUOTE]The University of Liberia will be left without any first-year students for the coming academic year after every single school leaver failed the institution’s entrance exam, leaving one politician to compare the event to “mass murder”.
Around 25,000 students undertook the University of Liberia’s entrance exam earlier this year but the head of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) John Gaylfor confirmed that not one candidate had done well enough to progress, with a near non-existent grasp of English blamed as the chief reason for the 100% fail rate.
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Education minister Etmonia David-Tarpeh told the BBC:
[QUOTE] I know there are a lot of weaknesses in the schools but for a whole group of people to take exams and every single one of them to fail, I have my doubts about that. It’s like mass murder.”[/QUOTE]
The University of Liberia is one of two state-run universities in the West African country and this is the first time that not one candidate has passed the exam, which costs £16 to take. Politicians said that the results have left young people’s “dreams shattered”.
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Liberia’s education system has been decimated by two civil wars, the most recent of which ended in 2003. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has admitted that the country’s school system is “in a mess” but this is failure on an unprecedented level.[/QUOTE]
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[quote]with a near non-existent grasp of English blamed as the chief reason for the 100% fail rate.[/quote]
[quote]25,000 students[B] fails[/B][/quote]
I wish this happened at my university
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I did not know you already had posted before, and that they check for the search
[QUOTE=Elcard100;42001287]I did not know you already had posted before, and that they check for the search[/QUOTE]
what
[QUOTE=Elcard100;42001287]I did not know you already had posted before, and that they check for the search[/QUOTE]
Uh yeah....?
I'm amazed not a single person can get in... just wow.
[QUOTE=Arthamus;42001301]what[/QUOTE]
Check by the browser if it is not posted before and always came out that had not been posted before, did not know what was posted by another
Apparently the failure rate would be zero every year without any bribes.
The only difference this year is that an independent body conducted the exams, and were therefore unmotivated by bribery attempts.
[QUOTE=Simples;42001383]I'm amazed not a single person can get in... just wow.[/QUOTE]
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Liberia is seriously messed up.
So late that you missed a new development. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23856310]They decided[/url] to let the top 1,800 students in regardless of their failure
Well no shit its putting a university in the middle of super fucked up Africa. They don't even have clean food and water half the time they aint going to university.
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[QUOTE=smurfy;42001720]So late that you missed a new development. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23856310]They decided[/url] to let the top 1,800 students in regardless of their failure[/QUOTE]
Probably the best choice. It's a start.
They should make their politicians and education board take the test this time, see how that goes.
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