Shocking: 100 per cent failure in Liberia University Matriculation Exam; no single student passed by Dare Lawal “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,” that’s how Liberia’s education minister, Etmonia David- Tarpeh described the news that no single candidate passed this year’s university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 school-leavers sat for the exam and failed. It was an examination for those intending to gain admission to the University of Liberia, one of two state-run universities. The Education minister said she intended to meet university officials and see what needed to be done. Ms David-Tarpeh said she knew some of the students and the schools they attended. “These are not just schools that will give people grades. I’d really like to see the results of the students,” she added. However the university spokesman Momodu Getaweh said that the university stood by its decision and would not be swayed by “emotion.” “The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English. “In English, the mechanics of the language, they didn’t know anything about it. So the government has to do something. “The war has ended 10 years ago now. We have to put that behind us and become realistic,” he said. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel peace laureate, recently acknowledged that the education system is still in a “in a mess”, and much needed to be done improve it.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:30:48 +0000
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