Govt must plug exam paper leaks
Making an example and prosecuting those who leak matric papers as well as those involved in cheating during exams is the only way to prevent this from being repeated in future.
This is according to education analyst Graeme Bloch who is based at the Wits School of Governance.
Yesterday Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga confirmed that Monday's Life Skills paper was leaked in Limpopo an hour before the exam was set to start.
Block feels such incidents are linked directly to financial gain.
''The root cause is money and obviously we must oppose it. When I think of the [leaked matric papers], I just feel since it's a provincial issue, the MEC should be hands on, especially around exam time.
''It should be done in all the schools in order to curb it,'' he said.
A total of 2089 pupils in KwaZulu-Natal and 778 pupils in the Eastern Cape were implicated in cheating during the 2014 matric exams.
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