Teacher, student in Uganda convicted of exam cheating The magistrate said the sentence would serve as caution to others who engage in similar practices. KAMPALA- City Hall Court has sentenced a vocational school teacher and a student to six months in jail for examination malpractice. Okello Robert, a teacher at Bishop Kitching Christian Vocational Institute in Ngora District and Justus Ruhangariyo, a student at Nakawa Vocational Institute in Kampala, were convicted on their own plea of guilt on charges of engaging in examination malpractices. The magistrate said the sentence would serve as caution to others who engage in similar practices. Ruling “This offence is very serious, Mr Okello you breached the integrity of the learning practice when you accepted to be persuaded by a student. This court will not be lenient to anyone convicted before it on similar charges. Such actions slow down the development of the nation once incompetent students are passed out,” Magistrate Juliet Hatanga said on Friday last week. “Such offences do not deserve a fine as a punishment but instead they call for a custodial sentence to teach the perpetrators a lesson,” she ruled. The convicts were jointly charged with conspiracy to cheat exams. Mr Okello was separately charged with engaging in exam malpractice and malicious damage of exam material during last year’s Uganda Business and Technical Examinations.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:26:11 +0000
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