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China hi-tech exam cheats jailed
Eight parents and teachers who used hi-tech equipment to help children cheat in Chinese college entrance exams have been sent to prison. They were given sentences of six months to three years after being found guilty of obtaining state secrets. Three groups were found operating in just one school in Zhejiang province. One group of parents, some of them local officials, persuaded a teacher to fax them the questions once the exam got under way. They had organised six university students to answer them. They sent these answers using mobile phones to their children in the exam hall who were wearing tiny earpieces.
Mini scanner Another man had employed more high-tech equipment. He bribed a student taking the same exam as his son to get him the questions using a miniature scanner. He had nine teachers on standby to answer them. He then transmitted the answers back to the two boys taking the exam. A third scam involved a teacher at the school who had charged hundreds of dollars to get the answers to students but whose equipment failed. The cheats were discovered when police nearby detected the efforts to transmit the answers to the students on their radios. In court, one of the fathers involved said they had had high hopes for their children and the exams were vital for them to secure good futures. This case has become infamous here because of the elaborate means used to try to cheat, but it does not appear to be that unusual. In recent months it emerged that across China, applicants to join the civil service had cheated using similar methods. On that occasion one state-run newspaper reminded cheats that in years gone by they would have been put to death.
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The London Metropolitan University has seen a rise in the number of exam cheats as compared to 73 other universities in the UK. The LMU released the figures under the Freedom of Information Act. According to the figures, 65 students there were caught cheating in formal exams in the 2006-07 academic year and 801 plagiarists, The second spot went to Westminster University, with 39 exam cheats, reports Times Online. UK's South Bank University landed the third spot with 35 students caught for offences, including talking in a foreign language before the end of an exam.
The investigation revealed that overall 614 students were caught cheating in the universities. Seventeen students were found guilty of plagiarism at the University of Oxford. A student from Manchester Metropolitan University was caught with 30 pencils, all of which had notes written on the side. A Robert Gordon University student in Scotland had received a warning for bribery after the person was caught having posted a request for help on a website.
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From The Times (added 30th June 2008)
Pupils are being rewarded for writing obscenities in their GCSE English examinations even when it has nothing to do with the question. Write 'fuck off' on a GCSE paper and you'll get 7.5%. Add an exclamation mark and it'll go up to 11%
One pupil who wrote "f*** off" was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully.
His paper was marked by Peter Buckroyd, a chief examiner who has instructed fellow examiners to mark in the same way. He told trainee examiners recently to adhere strictly to the mark scheme, to the extent that pupils who wrote only expletives on their papers should be awarded points.
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A report this week by think-tank Reform laments the drop in numbers of people taking maths A-level, at an estimated cost to the economy of £9bn.
"The UK remains one of the few advanced nations where it is socially acceptable, fashionable even, to profess an inability to cope with maths," it says, despite a maths A-level putting on average an extra £10,000 a year on a salary
Also University cheats 'not expelled'
University students who are caught submitting plagiarised work are very rarely expelled, shows a survey.
A study found only 143 students caught cheating were expelled out of 9,200 cases - despite almost all universities threatening expulsion as a sanction.
Exam papers had answers on back
Thousands of teenagers are facing uncertainty over their exams after a GCSE music paper was found to have some of the answers on the back.
Students 'had hints' before exam
An exam board is investigating suggestions that some teachers gave students hints about what questions would be in an A-level biology exam.
CAIRO (AFP) - Fourteen Egyptians, including officials and parents, were jailed for up to 15 years on Monday for involvement in leaking secondary school exams in a scandal that has rocked the country.
A court in Menya, 150 miles (240 kilometres) south of Cairo, convicted the group for trying in June to cheat the dreaded "thanawiya amma" -- Egypt's equivalent of A-levels or SATs -- that largely determine a child's future.
Kenya - Exam cheats and their accomplices will be fined Sh250,000 if a proposal by the Kenya National Examinations Council is adopted. Knec also wants people found in possession of examination materials or information before the candidates sit for the papers to be jailed for three years.
Exam cheat duo guilty of fraud A TOP City trader faces shame and a possible jail term after he admitted cheating in exams at the University of York. Jerome Drean, 34, who once worked for the Bank of America and Credit Suisse, stood in the dock with the man he impersonated on the Heslington campus - Elnar Askerov, aged 23.
The financial markets expert netted £20,000 as he used a fake ID card to sit exams in Askerov's name during the pair's 17-month conspiracy. Both could be jailed when they return to York Crown Court next month to be sentenced. "This is a case that raises some issues of quite some public importance in relation to public examinations and the confidence that the community can have in them," said York's top judge, Judge Stephen Ashurst. "I know you are both intelligent men. You must understand that all sentencing options including imprisonment will be considered when this court reconvenes to consider your case."
Uni exam cheats enjoyed the sweet smell of success
Eighteen people, including students, university administrators, lecturers and professors, have been confined by judicial order to their homes in and around Rome as police continued an investigation into what they said was a degree-trading racket at Europe's biggest university. Investigators said on Friday that they had secretly recorded conversations in which law students at La Sapienza university bought exam results using a code based on the names of flowers. One was told: "A bunch of roses [according to the police, a first-class pass in criminal law] costs €3500 ($6100)."
Thousands of teenagers were punished for cheating in their GCSE and A-level exams last year, figures showed.
The Government watchdog said 4,258 candidates were caught, with a quarter punished for taking mobile phones or other gadgets into their exams.
At the same time, the number of teenagers given extra marks for being ill on the day of their exams rose sharply, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) said.
In a report on the 2007 exams, the QCA said 1,620 pupils were warned, disqualified or lost marks for introducing "unauthorised material" into the exam hall.
The watchdog went on: "Within this category, around two-thirds of cases related to mobile phones or other electronic communication devices. Almost one-third of the candidates penalised for malpractice were penalised for plagiarism, failure to acknowledge sources, copying from other candidates or collusion."
The QCA also warned of a significant rise in the numbers of candidates asking for special arrangements to be made to accommodate their needs in exams. These included having extra time, help with reading and the use of computers to complete answers.
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