{"id":12215,"date":"2021-06-14T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:48:21","slug":"ldc-boss-calls-for-audit-into-universities-teaching-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/ldc-boss-calls-for-audit-into-universities-teaching-law","title":{"rendered":"LDC boss calls for audit into universities teaching law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The director of the Law Development Centre (LDC), Mr Frank Nigel Othembi, has called for an audit into the quality of education at universities teaching law to reduce poor performance at the institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to take a keen interest into the quality of legal education being offered by the many universities that have been accredited to offer the Bachelor of Laws,\u201d Mr Othembi said during LDC\u2019s 48th virtual graduation in Kampala last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBar course applicants were subjected to a pre-entry examinations administered by the Law Council but in 2019, the pre-entry exams were suspended for two years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Othembi said although LDC is one of the institutions that agreed to scrap the exams, they will not lower their standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gave our stakeholders assurance that LDC would maintain the high academic standards as the final gate keeper because all the gates are open from primary to secondary to university, and we are going to play our role,\u201d Mr Othembi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partly explains the current poor performance at the Bar course but LDC will maintain its high academic standards, \u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, LDC released results for the academic year 2019\/2020 with a 90 per cent failure rate.A total of 1,682 law students sat for the exams, with 70 per cent partially failing, while 20 per cent totally failed, and have since been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Fredrick Ssempebwa, the chairperson of the Committee on Legal Education and Training of Law Council, who was the chief guest, advised graduates to treat their clients as kings but not as a source of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many lawyers are brave enough to tell a client that I am sorry, the instructions you are going to give me in that area, I am not competent,\u201d Prof Ssempebwa asked.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Pheona Nabasa Wall, the Uganda Law Society president, urged the graduates to be diligent and accountable to themselves and people as they go into the job market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The director of the Law Development Centre (LDC), Mr Frank Nigel Othembi, has called for an audit into the quality of education at universities teaching law to reduce poor performance at the institution. \u201cWe need to take a keen interest into the quality of legal education being offered by the many universities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-12215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LDC boss calls for audit into universities teaching law - 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