Liberia students all fail university admission exam - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23843578[/url] [quote]Liberia's education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year's university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 school-leavers failed the test for admission to the University of Liberia, one of two state-run universities. The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English, a university official told the BBC. Liberia is recovering from a brutal civil war that ended a decade ago.[/quote]

It's almost as if standardized testing doesn't work.

Damn it guys, this round peg won't fit in this square hole. What is wrong with it!?

Given how trashed Liberia was from their conflict, it's a surprise they're managing to have a university at all.

Most of the ones fluent in English ended up coming here I guess I've had a few classes that had more than 2 immigrants from Liberia

[QUOTE=Saxon;41986781]Most of the ones fluent in English ended up coming here I guess I've had a few classes that had a few immigrants from Liberia[/QUOTE] Pretty much if you have skills or a decent education, they find another country to live in. It's a shame, but I can't blame them.

Nobody with a choice stays in Liberia. Hopefully they have the resources to expand their education system since I can't see a country like this advancing.

[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41986652]It's almost as if standardized testing doesn't work.[/QUOTE] Considering not a single person managed to pass it, this shows that Liberian education has massive massive issues on a bellow university level. And unis cannot and should not supplant basic education. It's why they're often listed as a tertiary education level.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;41987039]Nobody with a choice stays in Liberia. Hopefully they have the resources to expand their education system since I can't see a country like this advancing.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21658149]Perhaps with neighbor's growth, it'll domino into it.[/url] Hoping it does so throughout Africa.

Liberia is still a really, really bad place. Some of the worst living conditions in Africa among the urban settings, comparable to 1700's Paris or something of the sort. It'll take decades before the aftershocks from the brutality of the civil war finally stop. You'd think basic education would be priority before higher education becomes a focus.

[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41986652]It's almost as if standardized testing doesn't work.[/QUOTE] It's almost as if the country has long-lasting societal repercussions from an awful civil war that make it entirely unsuited to being hijacked as a soapbox for commentary on the American school system.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;41988144]Liberia is still a really, really bad place. Some of the worst living conditions in Africa among the urban settings, comparable to 1700's Paris or something of the sort. It'll take decades before the aftershocks from the brutality of the civil war finally stop. You'd think basic education would be priority before higher education becomes a focus.[/QUOTE] To be brutally honest, Liberia is currently one of the poorest, uneducated, violent and dangerous places in the world. The two civil wars that ripped apart the country were so bad that almost every single mission, charity organization or peacekeeping force left the country. It makes Sierra Leone's Civil war look like a game of airsoft.

[video=youtube;ZRuSS0iiFyo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo[/video] Yeah, you know, somehow I'm not surprised Liberia is literally the worst country to live in.

[QUOTE=Virtanen;41994013] Liberia is literally the worst country to live in.[/QUOTE] There are worse off African countries unfortunately.