Over 50% Law School Failure, Lawyers Seek Probe of Result Following the heartbreaking failure recorded in 2013/2014 Law School Exam, some senior lawyers in the country are calling on the relevant authorities to probe the mass failure. While defending the result, the Nigerian Law School authorities have linked the alarming failure rate to a review of their marking scheme. They explained that the review was necessary in the face of the rapidly falling standards in the legal education. According to the Deputy Director-General of the Lagos campus, Mrs. Toun Adebiyi, the Nigerian Law School has gotten a new Director-General, Mr. Olanrewaju Onadeko, who is poised to raise the standard. Report states that Onadeko directed that each script be reviewed at three different stages in order to ensure that the students were actually rated according to their performance. Debunking the claim by the students that they were deliberately failed, the DDG challenged them to call for a review of their scripts. She had added that no student would be victimized for making the move. #Punch reports that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Emeka Ngige, who took sides with the Law School, posited that the failure of the students was a reflection of the state of the universities, which produced them, rather than the inadequacies of the Law School. He added that the new DG of the Law School should be lauded for what he described as the move to rid the system of the rot that was now slowly eating into its fabrics. “I commend the DG of the Law School for the standard introduced into marking their scripts. The results have shown the rot in our university system where these students graduated from. “In the past, we used to have 70 per cent pass and this year; it’s barely above 50 per cent. What it shows is that our universities need to look inwards. We need to look into the way our universities are being run.”
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:53:27 +0000
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