Benin: 6 students admitted out of 2,482 in first year law at the University of Parakou
Out of a total of 2,482 students enrolled in the first year of law at the University of Parakou, only six were admitted in the first session of June 2025.
SUMMARY
The faculty of law and political science at the University of Parakou is shaken by catastrophic results in the first session of June 2025. According to the newspaper La Nation, out of the 2,482 first-year students, only six have passed all teaching units and are definitively admitted.
The other 2,476 will have to retake the unvalidated subjects during the second session. This situation, which raises many concerns and worries, is not a first according to Dean Moctar Adamou.
The average is no longer enough
Indeed, the university has been applying the LMD (License-Master-Doctorate) system since 2012 which requires the validation of all teaching units grouped by subject. “Here, we no longer use the classical system where the overall average was enough. Every teaching unit must be validated”, explained the dean quoted by public media. According to him, this rigor aims to encourage students to better prepare and fully engage in their training.
Reflecting on the evolution of this policy, the Dean recalls that previously, with a success rate of 85%, students could advance to the next year, but this leniency showed its limitations. “Many students would not retake the subjects they had to retake”, he regrets.
According to his explanations, this is why since 2020, the faculty has opted for a strict application of the rule that the first session is only validated if all the units are.
Failure of the system or academic requirement?
For Professor Moctar Adamou, this is not a failure of the system but an academic requirement. For him, last year, around 785 students succeeded in the second session. He is therefore optimistic about a significant improvement in results in the next phase.
However, he acknowledges that not all students enroll with the vocation or profile necessary to pursue legal training. Some, according to him, join the faculty without a real professional project in this field.
“However, not everyone who comes to this law faculty has the profile to be lawyers. Sometimes, some do not make the right choice. They come only to increase the number of students in this faculty.”
For the dean, this level of requirement is necessary in order to train competent legal professionals. He hopes that the affected students will take advantage of the second chance offered to them to improve their situation.
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