LDC is not to blame
Mar 16, 2010
EDITOR—I wish to comment on the high failure rate at the Law Development Centre (LDC). It is very clear now that secondary education results seem to show a trend towards excellent performance.
EDITOR—I wish to comment on the high failure rate at the Law Development Centre (LDC). It is very clear now that secondary education results seem to show a trend towards excellent performance.
It seems that all schools now have implicitly in their policy and explicitly in their conduct taken on a new approach to outperform each other. They do this by posting outrageously excellent results.
However, much as that leaves all the stakeholders happy, it ultimately becomes a big disservice to the intended beneficiaries—the students. Much as they may end up securing the courses every student craves, the style of teaching in secondary school leaves them exposed in later life and studies. An example of such a weakness has for some time now been demonstrated at the LDC.
It has become common that every year a huge number of students fail the course. While the public may want to crucify the LDC administration for such results, they forget that LDC is simply being fed with very unprepared students, having been ‘semi-processed’ by an education system that only prepares one for passing exams.
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It seems that all schools now have implicitly in their policy and explicitly in their conduct taken on a new approach to outperform each other. They do this by posting outrageously excellent results.
However, much as that leaves all the stakeholders happy, it ultimately becomes a big disservice to the intended beneficiaries—the students. Much as they may end up securing the courses every student craves, the style of teaching in secondary school leaves them exposed in later life and studies. An example of such a weakness has for some time now been demonstrated at the LDC.
It has become common that every year a huge number of students fail the course. While the public may want to crucify the LDC administration for such results, they forget that LDC is simply being fed with very unprepared students, having been ‘semi-processed’ by an education system that only prepares one for passing exams.
Name withheld