Future of Legal Education: Students should stop bribing teachers for questions- Ansa- Asare

A former Director of Legal Education at the Ghana School of Law and Dean of the Mountcrest University College,Mr. Kwaku Ansa Asare has admonished students to eschew the practice of bribing their teachers for examination questions.

He revealed that some teachers set questions and in some cases, sell them to students.

According to him, such a practice will not inure to the benefit of a quality future of Ghana’s Legal education that stakeholders are calling for.

In a remark as a Chairman of a Panel at the just ended INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN GHANA/AFRICA by the University of Ghana School of Law, he intimated the need for the solidarity of teachers and students of Law alike to surmount the challenges of Ghana’s Legal education.

According to him, like teachers, students also ought to play their part by being morally upright thus burying the practice of some students influencing lecturers through bribes.

 He insisted that without such a cooperated effort, such conferences would amount to nothing thus called for an attitudinal change.

“So you need the solidarity and co-operation of everyone here; teacher and students alike. We are all in this mess. It is the students who bribe the teachers to do the wrong thing. The teachers, those who are setting the questions. They are selling questions. Students go and pay and they turn round that they’ve been failed.”

“If you do the wrong thing, how do you expect the right things and now you want quality legal education when from the inception, you are involved in bribery and corruption, nepotism, favouritism. If we don’t stop these things, this conference, whatever we do, will come to nought. We need an attitudinal change for the better,” he indicated.

The four-day Conference held at the Auditorium of the University of Ghana School of Law, was on the theme; THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN GHANA/AFRICA.