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Liberia's main state-run university has agreed to admit 1,800 school-leavers who failed this year's admission exam, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says.
Nearly 25,000 school leavers failed the test, with officials saying they did not have a basic grasp of English.
Sirleaf told the BBC she had held talks with officials at the University of Liberia over the failure of every single candidate who took the exam.
Responding to critics who accuse her of failing to improve education standards since she was elected president in 2005, Ms Sirleaf said: "I'm sorry, they're just dead wrong.... There's no quick fix."
School enrolment had "quadrupled" under her government, she said.
"The second phase now is quality education. That's a more difficult task," Ms Sirleaf added.