WHY THE LPAB SUX

There is a fiction that has been perpetrated for many years regarding the Board's examinations and its relationship with the teaching program of the Law Extension Committee. This fiction creates most of the confusion by students in relation to how the course is run, but more importantly creates artifical barriers that prevent the efficient and effective administration of what should be an innovative, quality legal education course.

The fiction, of course, is that the administration of examinations, and the administration of tuition can be divided neatly and discreetly between two bodies, the LPAB running examinations, and the LEC providing tuition. This, theoretically, could work if the administration of examinations took into account all aspects of what in entailed in setting and conducting examinations. However, the current administration of examinations currently amounts only to ensuring that exam papers are completed on time, that exam venues are booked and staffed, and that examination results are processed. No place is given, in the administration of examinations, for the content of those exams.

The current division between "exams" and "tuition" is such that all consideration of substantive content is conducted solely by the Law Extension Committee. In effect, examinations test student knowledge against what they have been taught by the LEC, and not against the Board's curriculum.