At least one case of academic fraud took place during the special mathematics exam held on Thursday in Maputo for 12th grade pupils, reports Friday’s issue of the daily paper “Noticias”.A group of students involved in the fraud have implicated two teachers whom they claim provided them with the answers to the mathematics exam. The police are currently interrogating the students and teachers whose names have not been released.The fraud occurred in the Lhanguene Secondary School. One teacher was found with a cell phone among his possessions in the examination room, although cell phones are strictly prohibited.When the phone was examined, it was found that the message log possessed answers to the exam questions which the teacher was sending to certain pupils.Elsewhere in the same school, a pupil was caught with a cell phone receiving the answers. Questioned by the school authorities, he confessed to cheating, and implicated a teacher, with whom he had struck a deal to provide the answers (presumably in exchange for money).This is highly embarrassing for the Education Ministry since this exam replaces one that had to be cancelled in its entirety when widespread fraud was discovered in Maputo. According to Education Minister Zeferino Martins, there were cases where entire classes scored 100 per cent.Fraud is worryingly common in Mozambican exams. In the first set of exams held this year, the Ministry of Education discovered 112 cases of cheating, 108 of which were blamed on pupils and four on teachers.The pupils involved have lost the academic year, while the teachers are facing disciplinary and criminal proceedings.
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