Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has revealed the extent to which teachers helped matric pupils cheat in last year’s exams.<\/p>\n
Motshekga yesterday disclosed some of the evidence given during hearings into group cheating at some KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape matric exam centres, where only black schools are implicated.<\/p>\n
She said teachers and principals who encouraged group copying, would be criminally charged.<\/p>\n
The continuing investigation will now focus on teachers, principals and invigilators.<\/p>\n
A KwaZulu-Natal pupil wrote on an exam answer sheet: “We can now continue.”<\/p>\n
This, according to Motshekga, “clearly indicated . that someone was dictating answers to them”.<\/p>\n
She said that in other instances teachers had simply walked into exam rooms and told invigilators to leave so that they could help their pupils.<\/p>\n
“The papers are opened at the school, so teachers would not have had sight of the paper before. So, I think, as the teacher looked at the paper, she found there was a section she had not taught the class and quickly rushed to the exam room to dictate it to them.”<\/p>\n
A KwaZulu-Natal pupil admitted during the hearings to cribbing.<\/p>\n
Motshekga said the exam results of pupils found guilty of group copying would be nullified.<\/p>\n
The department launched the investigation into cheating allegations involving 153 exam centres in Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng earlier this year.<\/p>\n
More than 3000 pupils implicated in group copying will sit for this year’ s exams in October and November.<\/p>\n
Only one KwaZulu-Natal pupil, among a group of 2307, was cleared of cheating charges; 56 confessed.<\/p>\n
Of the 720 implicated in Eastern Cape, 26 were cleared and 17 confessed.<\/p>\n
Former acting director-general of the Department of Basic Education Paddy Padayachee said security would be improved.<\/p>\n
Source: timeslive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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