All 25,000 individuals who applied to the University of Liberia were forced to swallow their pride: none of them passed the entrance exam, forcing the admissions office to lower its selection standards. … Liberia is recovering from a violent civil war that came to an end a decade ago, but left its education system “in a mess”, as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently said. … According to the news site allafrica.com, the University of Liberia had decided to raise its admission standards for the 2013-2014 academic year. Any student seeking a spot at the university needed to score higher than...