Test
administrators caught on film giving cheat sheets to students could face criminal
charges now that education officials have called for a police investigation.
Inspectors
at northern Bac Giang Province’s education department launched their own probe
after seeing the online footage, which went viral after the national high
school graduation exams ended June 4.
Two
students at Doi Ngo high school in Luc Nam District shot the clips using pens
doubling as cameras and coordinated with a former teacher known for crusading
against academic cheating.
Nguyen
Van Tu, a local lawyer, said the exam questions are considered national
secrets.
“Several
proctors were seen throwing in exam answers, so we can infer that questions
were leaked in the first place,” Tu said. “This is an indication of criminal
violations, and the exam council is to blame.”
The
Ministry of Education and Training administers the assessments nationwide. One
former chief inspector at the ministry described the offense as less severe
because it happened within the exam council area.
“In
this case, the violators can be charged with ‘coordinating to answer the
questions and give the answers to the students only,” Tran Ba Giao said.
A
current ministry official said prosecutors should file criminal charges only if
the questions were disclosed before the exam began.
“In
that circumstance, those involved should be charged with revealing national
secrets,” he said, adding that otherwise, they simply committed misdemeanors.
In
a scandal that has shocked the public, officials also
are weighing punishments for the two students who filmed the testing
at their high school, because recording devices are banned in exam rooms.
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