General News of Monday, 30 December 2019Source: www.ghanaweb.comTreat law students as subjects, not objects – Kofi Abotsiplay videoLawyer Ernest Kofi AbotsiErnest Kofi Abotsi, Managing Partner at Axis Legal and former Dean at the Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has said law students should be treated as subjects and not objects when it comes to legal education in the country. According to him, there must be some reforms regarding how students are admitted to pursue professional training at the Ghana School of Law, Makola. The victims however of the entire circumstances of what we are experiencing today are the students,” he said. Mr Abotsi explained that the exit exams that law students write before leaving the law school actually cannot be described as an exit exam but rather a progressional exam. He said that an exit exam is a one-time exam which a student writes and passes, there is no other examination to write again before one is called to the Bar.

Source: GhanaWeb December 30, 2019 06:00 UTC