The General Legal Council (GLC), the body that oversees legal education and the legal profession in Ghana has introduced an Examination Administration Software for the management of the Professional Law Examination of the Ghana School of Law.
The software is developed to automate the activities of IEC of the school by managing all examinations administered by the Committee.
It provides the platform for those who would be registering for the Law School entrance examinations and equipped with a secure students’ (including persons with visual impairments) portal that provides access to all candidates to retrieve their examination results and generate reports of their performance.
Technological Shift
Chairperson of the Independent Examination Committee (IEC), Justice Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, indicated that any institution that fails to adopt digital technology risks being overtaken by other institutions.
She observed that the IEC has had to undertake a number of reforms to modernise its systems and streamline its processes.
“It has strengthened its administrative systems, enhanced its oversight of tasks outsourced to external operatives, pruned its list of experts, tightened its integrity frameworks and deepened its relations with those on whom it depends to execute specialised tasks,” she said.
Justice Mensa-Bonsu added that the adoption of digital technology in the form of the new website and examination portal is in line with the activities that are seeking to enhance the capabilities of the IEC to perform its statutory functions.
Chief Justice and Chairperson of the GLC, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo who launched the software noted that the software will lead to an enhancement in the integrity of students’ results.
“Finally, we can turn the page on the antiquated ways where students form long queues to check their results,” she said.
Justice Torkornoo added that the General Legal Council will continue to do everything possible to enhance the operations and activities of the IEC to protect the integrity of examinations, while simultaneously, affording students the necessary convenience they deserve.
The Director of the Ghana School of Law, Barima Yaw Okodie Oppong, said the software adds to the already existing cogent evidence that the Law School examinations and selection process for students to enter the school and to exit still remains one of the best.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak