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Liberia Students all Fail University Admission Exam

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013TesfaNews5 Comments

By BBC, Liberia’s education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year’s university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 school-leavers failed the test for admission to the University of Liberia, one of two state-run universities. The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English, a […]

Liberia; Plenty “Democracy”, No Electricity

February 1, 2012TesfaNews1 Comment

By Thomas C. Mountain, While Liberia could afford an election in which the President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed, the people of the country have neither electricity or running water. Long the golden girl of the western banktatorships Ellen Johnson spent the year before her election in 2006 campaigning in Liberia while drawing a healthy salary […]