DHAKA (Reuters)
More than 10,000
Bangladesh students
sitting college final exams have been expelled for copying
from text books, demanding the right to cheat in examinations
and beating up teachers, education officials said.
They said over half a million students appeared in the Higher
Secondary Certificate examinations which started
Thursday.
"Over 10,000 students have been expelled in the first two
tests Thursday and Saturday," one official said.
Violence over the two days ranged from stoning of teachers by
students and their friends, setting examination rooms
on fire and assaulting invigilators, police said.
Students angry at not being allowed to cheat inside
examination halls tore up questions, snatched away answer
sheets and assaulted the monitors in northern Sherpur district,
police and officials said, adding that similar incidents
had occurred at various other centers.
Dr A.T.M Sharifullah, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher
Secondary Education Board, said he felt distressed
by the
growing trend of using unfair means in examinations.
"I guess the main reason for such practices was a lack of
moral values in the students," he told Reuters.
"We need a social commitment, including of parents of the
students, to stop these sorts of unfair means," he added.
"The incidents of cheating are more evident in the villages,
where students are mostly not prepared to sit tests. They
rely more on the supply of copies by friends," said Dr.
Jahanara Begum, Principal of the
government-run Dhaka
College.
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