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Mindanao university ordered to close law programs

  The Legal Education Board (LEB) has ordered the Mindanao State University to close its law programs in all its campuses starting academic year 2025-2026 after it approved a resolution canceling MSU’s accreditation. The order stemmed from MSU’s refusal to recognize LEB’s supervisory authority and for asserting that it is not bound by the board’s orders, policies and guidelines on legal education. “The MSU is no longer authorized to offer the basic law program in the country,”  the LEB said. The board made permanent the cease and desist order it issued against MSU’s extension law programs on its campuses in Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Maguindanao. It expressed concern over what it described as MSU’s “dismal” performance in the Bar examinations, noting the school’s passing rate since 2013 has been below the national passing percentage. Reacting to the LEB’s resolution, the MSU said it would continue to operate in accordance with its chapter passed by Congress in 1955. “The LEB cannot act no

BB No. 7 Series of 2023 | ACADEMIC HONESTY

 


As stated in Bar Bulletin No. 1, Series of 2023, the 2023 Bar Examinations shall consist of entry-level essay questions which shall test knowledge of fundamental legal principles and competence for basic skills required of a beginner lawyer in the Philippines. 

This notwithstanding, the examinations shall uphold and maintain the highest standards of excellence and integrity. It shall adopt a zero-tolerance policy against cheating and all other forms of academic dishonesty. 

[...] In all prohibited actionable examinee behavior cases, the examinee’s lack of knowledge or unintentional non-compliance with the rules will not be excused. 

[...] Be honest. There is nothing to gain, but everything to lose, with cheating.

Remember that everyone, like you, is tired. Please consider others. 

Good things come to those who do good things. 

✒️ RAMON PAUL L. HERNANDOAssociate Justice, Supreme Court of the PhilippinesChair, 2023 Bar Examinations 

📸 OFFICE OF THE 2023 BAR CHAIR

BAR BULLETIN No. 7 Series of 2023

ACADEMIC HONESTY 


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