Prof Emmanuel Kanchebe Derbile, Vice-Chancellor of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), has revealed that 64% of the University’s first batch of law graduates who sat the entrance examination to the Ghana School of Law have made it into the school.
SDD-UBIDS, the first University in the northern part of Ghana to offer an LLB programme graduated its pioneers early this year at a special congregation.
Speaking at the University’s 4th Congratulation last Saturday, Prof Derbile was proud of the feat of the University’s first law graduates.
“Kindly permit me to remind all of us that on 12th July this year, the University held its Maiden Special Congregation during which 62 Law students of the School of Law graduated with LLB degrees.
Out of this number, 42 of them took the Professional Law Entrance Examination in September this year. I am pleased to report that 27 (64%) of them passed the examination to commence the professional leg of their training. This is a significant milestone for our School of Law, the University, northern Ghana and the country at large. For the first time in the history of tertiary education in Ghana, 58 years after Independence, a University in northern Ghana conferred LLB degrees to graduating students and is presenting 27 of them to the Ghana Law School for the professional training required for a call to the BAR,” he noted.
4th Congratulation Ceremony
Prof Derbile urged the graduating students to be good ambassadors of the University.
A total of 2,183 students were awarded various degrees. The degrees comprise 688 postgraduates (including 10 PhDs, 30 MPhils and more than 500 MScs) and 1,495 undergraduates and diplomas of the total number of undergraduate degrees.
