Somalia Pupils Protest Exam Cancellation After Leak
University student Abdirashid Abdullahi checks notebooks after teaching displaced Somali children at a makeshift school at the Badbado IDP camp in Mogadishu, on June 25, 2018. Somalia has postponed national secondary school examinations following a leakage. PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB | AFP
By AFP
IN SUMMARY
Education Minister Abdullahi Godah Bare on Monday announced that the six exams that had already been taken were cancelled, and that the whole process would begin again at the end of May.
Students took to the street in anger, some saying they stayed up late for three nights to prepare for the tests.
Hundreds of Somali high school pupils took to the streets of Mogadishu on Tuesday to protest the cancellation of national exams after the papers were leaked on social media.
Education Minister Abdullahi Godah Bare on Monday announced that the six exams that had already been taken were cancelled, and that the whole process would begin again at the end of May.
"The ministry will take further steps to ensure that the exam is not leaked next time and there is the possibility of disabling online social media platforms in the country during the five days of the exams," he said.
He did not elaborate on how the papers were distributed via social media but said they had been leaked from one of 90 examination centres, and that parents had participated in the sale of the tests.
By AFP
IN SUMMARY
Education Minister Abdullahi Godah Bare on Monday announced that the six exams that had already been taken were cancelled, and that the whole process would begin again at the end of May.
Students took to the street in anger, some saying they stayed up late for three nights to prepare for the tests.
Hundreds of Somali high school pupils took to the streets of Mogadishu on Tuesday to protest the cancellation of national exams after the papers were leaked on social media.
Education Minister Abdullahi Godah Bare on Monday announced that the six exams that had already been taken were cancelled, and that the whole process would begin again at the end of May.
"The ministry will take further steps to ensure that the exam is not leaked next time and there is the possibility of disabling online social media platforms in the country during the five days of the exams," he said.
He did not elaborate on how the papers were distributed via social media but said they had been leaked from one of 90 examination centres, and that parents had participated in the sale of the tests.
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