Ghana School of Law to introduce triple track system in managing large admissions

The Management of the Ghana School of Law says the institution is considering introducing a triple track system to manage the large number of students who have passed the entrance exams this year.

The Independent Examination Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) published 1045 index numbers of candidates who passed the 2020 Law School Entrance Examination out of a total of 2763 candidates.

This number represents a 33% increase in the pass rate.

Last year, only 7% (128) of those who sat the exams last year passed, triggering agitations among law students.

According to the Director of the Ghana School of Law, Maxwell Opoku Agyeman, due to the large numbers admitted, the triple track system will enable them maximize the use of their limited facility.

 “It’s not even double track, its triple track if you want to use it, which is not a double track as you have in SHS. For example, students are supposed to have 24 hours per contact hours in a week. Meanwhile, if you add up, how many hours do you have in a week? Five days?

“You realise that students have been wasting time on campus doing nothing because we spread lectures, one in the morning, maybe one in the evening, the following day one in the morning, one in the evening. It’s waste of time.”

According to Mr Opoku Agyeman, the coronavirus pandemic afforded candidates ample time to prepare adequately for the entrance exam which was written in August this year.

“This year, what we did was that because of Covid…We gave them almost 3 months notice for them to prepare for [the] exam and assured them that the exam will take place at the end of August. So we gave them ample time to prepare”.

This, he added, was unlike that of the previous year when students wrote the exam immediately after the end of the semester in July.