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Six primary teachers arrested over examination malpractice
What you need to know:
- In the past, candidates would write their names, index numbers, name of the school and district, but this has now changed. Meanwhile, in Kalungu District, the Resident District Commissioner Sarah Nanyanzi has confirmed that 18 candidates have missed sitting their PLE over pregnancies.
KYOTERA. Police in Kyotera District have arrested six teachers of Kibonzi primary school in Nabigasa Sub-County, Kyotera District over allegations of examination malpractice in the ongoing Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE).
According to the Kyotera District Police Commander, Mr Grace Mutono, the arrested teachers, including the head teacher were found with sheet of paper containing answers for the social studies paper the PLE candidates were doing on Monday.
He further said that some of the suspects also had questions and answers on their smart phones.
“We were alerted by one of the scouts after seeing staff members moving in the school compound near the main hall where pupils were having their exam,” he said.
The suspects, all teaching at the same school, are being held at Kyotera Police Station.
Mr David Matovu, the Kyotera Resident District Commissioner, told Daily Monitor on Tuesday that many spies were deployed around the district this time round and it is difficult to cheat during the exams.
"I have monitored exams for some good years and I know how we can trap such people. I can't in any way tolerate such acts in Kyotera, a newly created district,” he said.
He further said that Kyotera was recently among the best three districts in service delivery and he therefore could not allow such incidents to happen.
Despite teachers being arrested, the candidates were allowed to continue with their exams and new invigilators were deployed at the station. Primary Leaving Examinations closed on Tuesday afternoon with over 671,923 candidates across the country writing the English paper.
Unlike in the past, this year the Uganda Examinations Board issued Education Management Information System (EMIS) numbers to all candidates instead of school names used in the past to minimum malpractices .
EMIS is a six-digit code that has been allocated to each school as pre-emptive measure to examination malpractice.
In the past, candidates would write their names, index numbers, name of the school and district, but this has now changed. Meanwhile, in Kalungu District, the Resident District Commissioner Sarah Nanyanzi has confirmed that 18 candidates have missed sitting their PLE over pregnancies.
“It’s unfortunate that the parents did not send their children for examinations yet they had registered and this may greatly affect the children’s future,” Ms Nanyanzi said.
Ms Nanyanzi blamed teachers who fail to monitor pupils during preps because most of them are lured into sexual acts by fellow pupils or unscrupulous teachers during that time.
