International University of East Africa (IUEA) has introduced a short course called ‘Preparation for the Bar Course’.
The three months short course will commence on June 1st, 2022 as a preparatory package for the bar course at the Law Development Center (LDC).
According to a statement from IUEA, the course will help law finalists prepare for the bar course which has always proved to be challenging to most law students.
“Recognizing the academic and technical challenges that most law students face at the bar course, we have conceptualized a course, a transitional in character, to help law finalists prepare for the bar course.” Part of the statement reads.
The bar course has always left law students scratching their heads, with a large number of them failing year in-year out.
Robert Mwanana, a third year law student at Makerere says the LDC preparatory course is useless. Robert says nothing will change even with such preparatory courses in place.
“Nothing will change. Look at the number of students that prepare for law pre-entry exams but still fail. The bar course wouldn’t be hard, its just the rigid administration that makes it hard,” Mwanana said.
In the academic year 2019/2022, LDC registered the highest failure rate with over 91% of the 1474 students that sat failing the bar course examinations.
Frank Nigel Othembi, the director at Law Development Center recently attached the high failure rate at LDC to the poor quality law graduates produced by universities.
Nigel Othembi said only four universities produce competent lawyers. He, however, refused to mention the four for the sake of peace.
The IUEA bar preparatory course will be conducted annually, with the first cohort commencing on June 1st, 2022 and ending on August 31st, 2022.
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