What?s a first day at university without the freshmen?
The University of Liberia is about to find out after almost 25,000 test takers failed the school?s admissions exam.
A university official told the BBC that the students did not have a basic understanding of English and lacked enthusiasm.
"I know there are a lot of weaknesses in the schools but for a whole group of people to take exams, and every single one of them to fail, I have my doubts about that," said the country?s Education Minister Etmonia David-Tarpeh.
"It's like mass murder."
BBC reports:
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel peace laureate, recently acknowledged that the education system was still "in a mess," and much needed to be done to improve it.
Many schools lack basic education materials, and teachers are poorly qualified, reports the BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh from the capital, Monrovia.
However, this is the first time that every single student who wrote the exam for a fee of $25 (?16) has failed, our reporter says.
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