ACU Threatens Jail for Students Caught Cheating

26 March 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Anti-corruption / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Government / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports / Primary and secondary education / Social development
ACU / Anti-Corruption Unit / Cambodian Independent Teachers Association / CITA / Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Education / Om Yentieng

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will join with the Ministry of Education this year to curb cheating during national-level high school and junior high exams, according to ACU chairman Om Yentieng. In order to eliminate old habits of purchasing answer sheets and paying bribes to exam monitors, Mr. Yentieng promised that teachers and students caught cheating would be sent to court and imprisoned if they were found guilty. “The anti-corruption education for secondary school from grade 10 to grade 12 is a beginning point for students’ behavior change for avoiding to commit immorality,” Mr. Yentieng said Tuesday during a training course on eliminating corruption from schools. …

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