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Liberia cancels final exams
07/05/2007 20:58 - (SA)
Monrovia - Liberia has cancelled all year-end final examinations written across the country last week over test paper leakages, a move the country's vice-president berated as a disgrace.
Head of the country's examinations body, Eli Lumei, announced at the weekend that senior high school tests thousands of pupils sat for last week were nullified due to suspected widespread malpractices and corruption.
"This is a disgrace to the school system in our country to see national exams being cancelled for acts of corruption and cheating," said vice-president Joseph Boakai.
At least 14 000 children are affected by the scrapping of the exams, according to an education source.
"This is not healthy for the education in Liberia. You see cheating and all kinds of fraud in the school system," said Boakai.
Lumei said the west African country's national security had instituted a probe into the matter and that new tests would have to be written at dates yet to be fixed.
Minister of education Joseph Korto had complained last week about rumours that workers from the country's West African Examinations Council (WAEC) circulated test papers a day before the examinations started.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has since she became head of state in January last year vowed to drastically crack down on corruption and improper deals.
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