Why is Liberia's Education System 'Failing'?
Liberia was left stunned by the fact that more than 24,000 students failed their university entrance exam - but who is to blame for the downward trend of the education system?-
Liberia: Gov't Raises Education to Priority Number One
Analyst, 30 September 2013
Until media reports in August this year revealed that more than 24,000 University of Liberia applicants failed the entrance examinations, no one in Liberia had recognized the… Read more »
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Liberia: Education Remains Priority Number One - Ellen Tells GEFI
New Dawn, 30 September 2013
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says that despite Liberia's competing demands, education remains the government's No.1 priority. Read more »
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Liberia: More Work, Less Talk for Improvement - Education Minister
New Dawn, 27 September 2013
Education Minister Etmonia David Tarpeh has admonished citizens to join the effort to improve the country's educational system. Minister Tarpeh noted that that if Liberia's… Read more »
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Liberia: Education Remains Government's Number One Priority
Govt of Liberia, 26 September 2013
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says that despite Liberia's competing demands, education remains the government's No.1 priority. Read more »
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Liberia: UL to Benefit From Litelco's Wireless Internet Service
Heritage, 16 September 2013
Deputy Director of the government owned Liberia Telecommunication Company (LITELCO), has attributed the lack of manpower in Liberia as the cause for Liberia's backwardness in… Read more »
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Liberia: Women Want Education System Revamped
New Dawn, 2 September 2013
At the time students and high schools here are being blamed for poor performance on public examinations, Liberian women have pleaded with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for a… Read more »
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Liberia: In Concurrence With You, Madam President
New Dawn, 30 August 2013
During a meeting with the Administration of the University of Liberia on Monday, August 27, 2013, the Visitor, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf squarely blamed the recent mass… Read more »
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Liberia: Education Crisis - Sirleaf Frowns On Mass Failure in UL Entrance Exams
FrontPageAfrica, 29 August 2013
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed concern over the reported mass failure of students that sat the entrance and placement exams recently administered by the University… Read more »
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Liberia: Ellen Blames High Schools for UL Mass Failure
New Dawn, 29 August 2013
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has blamed university candidates' mass failure on the poor performance of high schools that prepared them, according to an Executive Mansion press… Read more »
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Liberia: High Schools Blamed for Mass Failure in UL Entrance Exams
New Democrat, 29 August 2013
President Ellen Johnson visited the main campus of the University of Liberia Tuesday, telling the UL authorities that the students' failure did not come from the university but… Read more »
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Liberia: Ellen Frowns On Mass Failure of Candidates in UL Exams
Heritage, 29 August 2013
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has expressed concern over the reported mass failure of students that sat the entrance and placement exams recently administered by the University… Read more »
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Liberia: Sirleaf Frowns On Mass Failure of Ul Entrance
Inquirer, 29 August 2013
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed concern over the reported mass failure of students that sat the entrance and placement exams recently administered by the University… Read more »
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Liberia: 'Real Truth' Behind Mass Entrance Exam Failure
FrontPageAfrica, 29 August 2013
The stats are astounding. News services all over the world including Time, The Guardian, Huffington Post, BBC, NYPost, announced the astonishing fact that no student out of 25,000… Read more »
The student to teacher ratio at the Paynesville Community Junior High School in Monrovia is over fifty to one.
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has termed the mass failure of the nearly 25,000 candidates who sat the University of Liberia's admission exam as alarming, warning that unless ... Read more »
