{"id":5298,"date":"2018-07-13T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/senegal-jails-lecturers-over-baccalaureate-exam-fraud\/54"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:00:54","slug":"senegal-jails-lecturers-over-baccalaureate-exam-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"Senegal jails lecturers over baccalaureate exam fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hands holding smartphones\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senegal-jails-lecturers-over-baccalaureate-exam-fraud-5b48b096493db.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright Getty Images Symbol caption Secondary school scholars shared examination question papers over social media <\/p>\n<p>A instructor in Senegal has been given a five-12 months jail sentence and every other has been fined $32,000 (\u00a324,300) for selling exam papers.<\/p>\n<p>French, English, historical past and geography baccalaureate checks had to be scrapped last yr after the question sheets circulated on social media and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Several different teachers and dozens of students have additionally been punished.<\/p>\n<p>Their sentences vary from -month suspended terms to two years in jail.<\/p>\n<p> Africa Reside: Actual-time news updates from across the continent Algeria goes offline for college tests &#8216;Exam cheats&#8217; burn seven faculties in Kenya <\/p>\n<p>The headmaster of Lyc\u00e9e de Kahone in Senegal&#8217;s capital town, Dakar, admitted promoting examination papers however stated he was once not prompted by the money.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;i wished to assist someone prone who was suffering to get their baccalaureate,&#8221; Mamadou Djibril Dia is quoted by way of news site L.  A. Vie Senegalaise as telling Dakar&#8217;s Correctional Court Docket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She asked me to assist her because she had already failed two times&#8230; If I had wanted to become profitable i would have bought the checks to wealthier other people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his five-12 months prison sentence, Dia was was fined 500,000 CFA francs ($886; \u00a3676).<\/p>\n<p>Teachers from no less than two secondary colleges have additionally been sentenced for &#8220;criminal conspiracy, fraud and fraudulently obtaining undue subject matter benefits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest of these was a great of $32,000 and a -yr jail sentence handed to French teacher Abdoulaye Ndour of Lyc\u00e9e Yalla Suren.<\/p>\n<p>Senegalese information website Le Soleil says the courtroom heard proof that Ndour had positioned $12,000 of proceeds from examination paper sales in his bank account.<\/p>\n<p>A general of 32 pupils received suspended sentences for their involvement, starting from six months to 2 years in prison. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Symbol caption Secondary school scholars shared examination question papers over social media A instructor in Senegal has been given a five-12 months jail sentence and every other has been fined $32,000 (\u00a324,300) for selling exam papers. French, English, historical past and geography baccalaureate checks had to be scrapped last yr after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1986,1987,1988,21,1989],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-cheating","tag-conspiracy","tag-court","tag-education","tag-exam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}