Education Permanent Secretary Chishimba Mkosha says government has no intentions of nullifying the ongoing 2013 examinations.
Mr.Mkosha told journalists at a media briefing in Lusaka today that there aren’t any sufficient grounds to warrant the nullification of the examinations stating that preventive measures have been taken and candidates engaged in exam malpractices have been arrested.
Mr. Mkosha said the high number of arrests made by authorities and the increased number of candidates expelled from the entire examination process for carrying pre-written materials illustrates the stringent measures that government has effected to curb examination malpractices and enhance vigilance.
He noted that for the first time in the history of the country, the teachers that were arrested were immediately suspended as earlier promised that government would institute stringent measures to deal with those suspected or found guilty of exam malpractices.
He said this is a plus and that the measure will deter would be offenders in perpetrators in future.
Mr Mkosha added that the number of pupils who may have benefited from the examination leakages this year is next to nothing compared to the past due to the measures taken to curb the vice.
Mr. Mkosha however, has expressed disappointment over the big number of teachers and pupils who have been arrested as a result of engaging themselves in malpractice.
And Examination Council of Zambia Director Michael Chilala says the examinations body is working with the ministry of Education to make sure that exam malpractices are prevented.
Mr. Chilala notes that ECZ has been following information given to them relating to exam malpractices and have realized that the opportunity benefit to those who intended to cheat has been almost zero.
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Too much kukopela. They would rather be on Facebook than study. Punsih them
He may be indirectly admitting that even after nullification there is still no guarantee that the re-sit will be fraud free. The papers are handled by too many people (printers, head teachers, police, chief examiners, etc) that there is always a point of leakage along the way.
It seems that examination fraud in Zambia has become BAU. I remember in the 1970s re-taking Grade 7 Maths and SP1 examinations because the Ministry of Education had discovered a leakage of the two papers. Exam fraud shows up later in the caliber of citizens a country producers. Exam fraud is very rife even in higher institutions of learning in Zambia.
it is.Some of these students of these days kaya mwandi. Very very dull.
You must be an old chap ka 1970s
mkv,
some of us have seen the better side of zambia such that when we try to advise, better listen.
in our era, we had brilliant chaps who never made it to form one because of limited places unlike now when secondary school places are in abundance but students rely on leakages..
what a contrast.
Even me Iam from the 70s
very few i can respect those who get 6points main are ma rubbish.
thanks
These days the results are not reflective what the kids have learnt in school but more their ability to memorize. They are not taught anymore but coached to pass exams. It is lucrative for a private school, for example, to brag about 100% pass.
What would happen if Mazoka was come back from death and knock @ the UPND secretariat??? Just asking don’t diahaorreain those diapers..
May you be healed from your mental illness
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TO THOSE OF YOU WHO DOUBTED GUY SCOTT WHEN HE SAID S AFRICANS ARE BACKWARD:
Johannesburg – Comments by President Jacob Zuma on e-tolls in which he said that “we can’t think like Africans” caused outrage on Tuesday.
Zuma commented on Monday at the Gauteng Manifesto Forum at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on e-tolls among other matters.
“We can’t think like Africans, in Africa, generally. We are in Johannesburg, this is Johannesburg. It’s not some national road in Malawi,” Zuma said.
“I don’t know what Malawi’s roads infrastructure has to do with Gauteng’s e-tolls. Zuma needs to chill with the arrogance,” tweeted writer T.O Molefe.
Ha ha ha ha! Zuma never went to school so he can be forgiven for this kind of primitive thinking. The strategy behind Bantu education which Zuma went through was to give africans a little education. And we all know that a little education is dangerous.
Those who were rested are just unfortunate. But the fact remains that those who were not arrested are many.
Its failure to put security measures that had lead to these mulpractices especially officials who were incharge of preparation and printing of exam papers.
One may PAY for the leakage now and pass with flying colours, but latter in life, your incompetence will SHOW. Just study hard! Exams are never meant to kill you!
The issue of leakages must faced head-on,ba six points for nothing.Where else do such things happen? could be the teachers are busy with private lessons,then the fear of having their children failing.
Practical strategy to drastically reduce exam malpractices: Re-introduce external supervisors & pay them allowances. Try this this year & see wat happens. ECZ, don’t be stingy with money! Be tight fisted & continue grappling with this cancer!! There are several points @ which malpractices occur. A gud %age is @ schools where they want to carve a name for producing very good but fake results.