A class of none: Students go 0 for 25,000 on University of Liberia entrance exam

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Mathematics is surprisingly simple. At the university of Liberia. Nearly 25000 students took part in the college entrance examination this year, each of these nearly 25000 failures.
Shy at a news conference last week, the university announced that is not a single applicant received a trademark in the west African country of one of the flagship institutions, and they will be asked to lower their standards, in order to fill the new large category.
Mo modoo gaeta WeiDaXue relations vice President in the school, the BBC in an interview: "in English, the language of the mechanics, our students don't know about it," the government is doing something ".
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This is a real President Ellen Johnson sirleaf the truth announced in March at the center of the education system is a university a public relations disaster of more than 150000 people were killed after 10 years of civil war is still a "mess" and sent 250000 fled to neighboring countries.

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And from the west, it is another bad news, read the story of Africa. After all, there is such a country reeling conflict of aftershocks, it does not produce a single college ready to graduate from high school.
But digital can slide, university officials said, there is a 100% failure rate in the less obvious: they tried to root out corruption cultural ground in the country's higher education system.
"In our society there is a kind of view, to a large extent, said:" once you consider Liberia university entrance exam, if you don't pay someone, or if you don't have a proper connection, you will not be placed in the result list James Dorbor Jallah, was hired as the university entrance examination, in an interview with reporters to the voice of America. "University has been exploring how they can management process, the real measure of the ability, on the basis of check their performance."
This year, he said, in the university is the first time in history, altogether accepts will be scored from a mere, guarantee - at least in theory - a point in the school can't bribe or family connections to earn. Closely police in a country with a long history of social class, the new test was the liberian education meritocracy, he said.
But the plan backfired, when a student does not comply with the strict mathematical part of the new standard - test and 70%, English 50% score. (hundreds of students, but, through at least one test section).
Scrambling to fill in the open seats, the university announced that it will provide admission performance about 1600 poor students, asking them to complete their study plan before you begin, two classes.
At the same time, the freshman class "zero" headline news, to focus on Liberia to stop at ordinary times. Former President Charles Taylor is sitting head of state charged with war crimes (his role in neighbouring sierra leone's civil war) since the nuremberg trials. He was convicted last year.
At the same time, the incumbent President - Africa's first elected female head of state - ms Johnson sirleaf, management has been riddled with corruption and inefficiency of charging, with many critics complained that she had a little improved broken education system, her inheritance. Due to Liberia newspaper, the news, wrote in a recent editorial, countries in many areas of progress has been slow, leading to wartime government of nostalgia.