BUNDREKORD: Ikke en eneste af de knapt 25.000 elever, som søgte ind på University of Liberia i hovedstaden Monrovia, bestod adgangsprøven -undervisningsministeren i det vestafrikanske land er himmelfalden og kan ikke tro det – især mangelfulde kundskaber i engelsk.
The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English, a university official said, according to BBC online Monday.
Liberia is recovering from a brutal civil war that ended a decade ago.
Many schools lack basic education material and teachers are poorly qualified. However, this is the first time that every single student who wrote the exam for a fee of 25 US dollar has failed.
It means that the overcrowded university will not have any new first-year students when it reopens next month for the academic year.
Students said the result was unbelievable and their dreams had been shattered.
Education Minister Etmonia David-Tarpeh told the BBC that “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 is like mass murder”, she stated.
University spokesman Momodu Getaweh said that the university stood by its decision, and it would not be swayed by “emotion”.
“In English, the mechanics of the language, they did not know anything about it. So the government has to do something,” he said.
