FALSE STUDENTS AND IMPOSTORS:: PSYCHEDELICS OR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS?

An interesting and ironic enigma that occurs in legon every year is the presence of false students. Brilliant impostors. They enroll in the most desirable institution in Ghana as genuine students. They reside in the various halls and attend lectures. They pay fees and the authorities accept them as ordinary students. They engage in all activities that happens on campus whether good or bad. Yet these seemingly illustrious undergradads who strut campus have a surreptitious and bizarre secret surrounding their presence on campus. They may eventually be identified as not legon students at all but an alien brood of pretentious impostors, vile charlatans and uncompromising and incorrigible criminals who have used their hollow and sham craftiness to outwit the university and to rob and obstruct hardworking students the chance of getting enrolled at the premier university. and also occupying the few hall of residence thereby hindering other students the chance of lodging on campus but vilifying themselves in hostels and at times in their various homes and they have to join their colleagues from afar.

How students of legon could all of a sudden be shown the exit- rusticated ignominiously is something that baffles my imagination.

There is an argument raging on campus that the authorities are aware of such a pernicious intruders and will wait for a while, pounce on them unawares and weed them out like harlot weeds from the precincts of the premier university.

If the rumor has an iota of fact or a seemingly aura of credibility around it, then it is unfortunate. Even though this may seem tentative and a common fabrication of students to unleash some pricking tongue wagging vengeance on the daring students, the fact of the matter is that the authorities must device effective means of nipping in the bud the activities of such students. Legon with such a classic penchant for academic excellence firm and resolute in its policies and implementation should be overtaken in such an embarrassing manner is not only unpardonable but does not augur well for the institution.

When students indulge or resort to fraudulent means to attain higher education, it pinpoints a serious blunder in our educational system. It posits serious social and educational problems. it calls for a thorough review of the system. It shows that if the system if governed by a strong and formidable system it still needs adjustment. If the system is effective, how do we account for the illegal entrance of those who do not qualify? Mostly such criminal activities of students are eventually dealt with there are some who may pass through with ease without the keen eyes of the institution able to see their nefarious activities. And are able to scale over the learning towers of legon and enter the world stage with the certificate of the institution they outsmarted.

what we have to understand about such daring students who will trade even their soul to get to the premier university is their conception and understanding of education and a higher one for that matter. They deem education as a mere attainment of certificates for job security. They have realized that upon the noise being made about standards in all spheres of life in our country, few are able to deliver eventually. They are not able to put into practice the theories they spend years learning at the premier university. The impostors also seize upon the vulnerability of the system to push through despite all odds. Why should they be left out if they cannot notice any difference between themselves and those there. After all it is not about education, but certificates, as the society and the educational system itself had made them understand. with this devilish resolution they put to test the intelligence of legon as a caryatid of education. The torchbearer of enlightenment.