Kenya to arrest exam officials over cheating

The Kenyan government has dissolved the national school examination board and says it will arrest the nine members who authorities now say were implicated in widespread cheating last year on the university entrance exam. The scandal is engulfing the Kenya National Examinations Council. College-age high school students in Kenya undergo a mandatory examination to determine […]

The Kenyan government has dissolved the national school examination board and says it will arrest the nine members who authorities now say were implicated in widespread cheating last year on the university entrance exam.
The scandal is engulfing the Kenya National Examinations Council. College-age high school students in Kenya undergo a mandatory examination to determine whether they can advance to public and private universities.
Around half a million students take the exam every year. In 2016, the results of more than 5,000 students were voided due to cheating and other “irregularities,” including exam papers being sold for $10.