FOUR Chiredzi South teachers at Chingele Secondary School
who allegedly wrote public examinations for their wives and girlfriends during
last November’s Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examinations have
been suspended, Southern Eye has established.
Zimsec spokesperson Nicky Dlamini confirmed that the
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, through the Public Service
Commission, suspended the teachers following a recommendation by the
examinations body.
This was after investigations by a team from Zimsec in
Harare found out that the schoolhead Mike Maluleke allegedly connived with his
deputy Checkson Tsumele, mathematics teacher Roddington Sithole and English
teacher Misheck Mahungu to write the examinations on behalf of their
girlfriends at home.
“Four teachers (head, deputy and two senior teachers) were
involved in improper association with schoolchildren and former schoolchildren.
These four were writing examinations for the eight candidates while one teacher
was writing for his second wife. Combined Science paper 3 ( practical paper)
examination was written in more than two hours and no proper supervision was in
place, and candidates were even discussing answers in the examination,” Dlamini
said.
“New teachers must be deployed at the school if Zimsec
centre status is to be maintained, otherwise the council will revoke the centre
status. A resident monitor should also be deployed during each examination
session so as to superintend the smooth running of examinations at the centre.”
Dlamini added that nine candidates will have all their
results for the November session nullified according to the Zimsec policy and
combined science results for the whole school have also been cancelled. Newsday
0 comments:
Post a Comment