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  • Newspaper

    Parents to blame for leakages

    Zambia

    Press

    - The Times of Zambia

    The Secondary School Teachers Union of Zambia (SESTUZ) has blamed parents for rampant examination malpractices. Parents are actually in the fore-front organising and buying leaked examination papers for their children. According to SESTUZ the government needed to build more schools because the population of Zambia had increased drastically while the number of schools remained static.

  • Newspaper

    Catholic schools' pilot program to fight corruption

    Cameroon

    Press

    Evan Weinberger - Catholic News Service

    A pilot program 'Fighting against corruption through schools' will teach students and parents to identify and act against dishonesty in their schools and the rest of society. Most civil servants in Cameroon, including teachers, earn low salaries and rely on bribes to feed their families.

  • Newspaper

    Kabale sacks 280 teachers

    Uganda

    Press

    Darious Magara - New Visions

    KABALE district has sacked 280 primary school teachers who were either on trial or untrained and recruited 240 to replace them. The 280 teachers had been appointed last year when the department had a shortage of teachers. The education sector is now carrying out a massive exercise to get rid of teachers with fake or forged papers.

  • Newspaper

    PLE poor results blamed on teachers

    Uganda

    Press

    Fred Muzaale - The Monitor

    Poor performance in the 2004 Primary leaving Examinations has been blamed on the many teachers who used fake academic documents and poor sanitation in numerous schools. Of the 5,655 pupils who sat for PLE last year, only 90 passed in grade one, while 3,892 failed.

  • Newspaper

    Mpigi names 120 fake teachers

    Uganda

    Press

    Robert Mwanie - The Monitor

    120 teachers have no qualifications, i.e. no documents or inadequate ones. Many primary teachers in remote areas lack qualifications and some do not even have O' level certificates.

  • Newspaper

    Government on rack over education

    Namibia

    Press

    Lindsay Dentlinger - The Namibian

    The education ministry has failed to take action against teachers and other education officers identified as guilty of misconduct by various investigations and commissions over the years. Affairs between schoolgirls and teachers, and schools misusing equipment given to them to improve the quality of education are among the countless problems that had emerged from investigations.

  • Newspaper

    Learners stuck after exam fees abused

    Namibia

    Press

    - New Era

    Fifteen of the 80 students enrolled with the Namibia College of Open Learning will not write their end of year exams after a teacher allegedly misappropriated their examination fees. It is suspected he used the money to settle personal accounts. The students will not be able to sit their exams this year as the fraud was discovered too late.

  • Newspaper

    Kogi begins verification of teachers' certificates

    Nigeria

    Press

    Ayodele Oluwole - Vanguard

    Kogi State Primary Education Board (SPEB) has commenced the verification of primary school teachers' certificates in the state in the effort to sanitize and raise the standard of teaching in primary schools across the state.

  • Newspaper

    A season of change

    Poland

    Press

    Wojciech Kosc - Transitions Online

    The new Matura exam, which is designed to be more objective and to ensure that the familiarity of students and teachers is no longer a factor, is facing criticism. Papers are now encoded and a cheat will automatically be failed. However, concerning the subject of the oral presentation, the student can now choose it before the actual exam. This has created a market for ready-made presentation which have appeared on the Internet for prices ranging from $30 to $165.

  • Newspaper

    Hearings start for 61 Mpumalanga teachers

    South Africa

    Press

    Sue Blaine - Business Day

    The Mpumalanga education department has begun disciplinary hearings for 61 teachers accused of being involved in last year's matric exam cheating. Investigations revealed that candidates were assisted, possibly by teachers, in one or more subjects. Irregular practices took place at 10 of the province's Mpumalanga's 587 examination centres.

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