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All 25,000 students fail the entrance exam for university in Liberia

Awkward.

EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 25,000 students who sat the entrance exam for Liberia’s main public university this year failed – and, understandably, the country’s president isn’t too happy.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited the campus of the University of Liberia yesterday and said that the failure was because of the low standards in school, which had not adequately prepared the students, rather than with the university.

The educational system is now a national emergency, President Johnson Sirleaf said.

The head of the university said none of the students received the required 70 per cent grade in the maths and English admission tests.

“After much deliberation, the Faculty Senate set 50 per cent in Maths and 70 per cent in English for passing; again, nobody whatsoever made the mark,” said Dr Emmet A Dennis.

In the end, university authorities admitted just over 1,600 candidates who did the best out of all the applicants.

“The problem is not just taking the test and failing,” said President Johnson Sirleaf. “The problem is where they are coming from – so we have to go into those high schools, into those elementary schools and see what is lacking and what we can do about it.”

The Liberian leader said the situation was “embarrassing” and called on the university authorities to work with the Ministry of Education and others to find solutions to the problem.

“Why are the students of the system not peforming to the standards expected?”, she asked in a statement. “Why are they not comparative with those in other countries? Why are our WAEC exams [standardised tests across a number of countries] not at the same level as the rest of the African countries, and we have a lower standard to adjust?”.

Sirleaf won the Nobel peace prize for her role in helping end Liberia’s long-running civil war which ended just over a decade ago, which left the west African country devastated.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:06 PM

    All those dinosaurs will have died for nothing if the electric car wins

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:12 PM

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:19 PM

    The self sacrifice of those great extinct animals and plants will be in vain if I can’t use them to power my V8

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    Jan 5th 2016, 1:06 PM

    Off by a couple of hundred million years. Good effort though…

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    Jan 5th 2016, 11:56 AM

    This is how far technology has come yet I still can’t get a text back…

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:12 PM

    2018….. Consumers being warned about Chinese cars catching fire while charging.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 11:56 AM

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:47 PM

    Another totally impractical space-age design that we’ll never see on the roads. Why do we keep dreaming up this kind of car? Surely by now we know that the futuristic look is just a sci-fi fantasy.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:46 PM

    Looks rubbish. Old cars are way better.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 1:51 PM

    Nothing in the article about power or weight.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:56 PM

    Oh yeah this car will be a runaway success definitely. It’ll be up there with the DeLorean in no time at all. Wow I cant wait to buy one it looks so practical and cool and everyone is gonna want one. This is definitely a red letter day in motoring history… zzzzzz

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:02 PM

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:45 PM

    A hidden front for VW perhaps

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:36 PM

    We have Faraday future and Tesla electric, will it be Volta or Maxwell next, or maybe Ampere, Gauss, Coulomb or Davy.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:51 PM

    Already have the volt, mitsi I think

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:10 PM

    That tail looks great on the car

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    Jan 5th 2016, 12:58 PM

    There show casing things that they will use on there everyday cars when production starts. I think the phone in the steering wheel is a very simple but great idea. Some cars these days are like a cockpit of an airplane with that many buttons, climate control, Music system’s, GPS and god knows what else. Most of which is already on a smartphone in one way or another and usually people with them know how to use them.

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    Jan 6th 2016, 3:08 AM

    Good luck getting that over the ramps in ireland

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    Jan 5th 2016, 4:13 PM

    I’m just waiting for the apple i-car to be released.

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