Liberia: UL Mass Communication Department - the Impact It Makes in Academia

The education nightmare of our country leaves a lot of people with uncertainty as to how capable learning institutions are to teach the right lessons that will equip students to perform better. In post-conflict Liberia where everything is done under the principle of "As usual," no serious student with the desire to learn properly can have much hope entering any institution as malpractices including grades for sale, sex for grades, administrative manipulations, favoritism and other social vices continue to overwhelm that education system.

Liberia's education system is one that officials of the supervising ministry (Ministry of Education) and the Commission on Higher Education are not even conscious of closely monitoring schools as every employee therein operates under the 'X Theory' concept of Douglas McGregor. Theory X comprises eye service workers who do not take responsibility in the absence of a boss. They are lazy, and because they are, they need close supervision and pressure.

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