Probe into cheating at 16 EC exam centres gets underway this week

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Investigations into allegations of mass cheating at 16 Eastern Cape exam centres will get underway in East London from Wednesday.

Bhisho Education Department spokesperson, Loyiso Pulumani, says that an audit to determine the veracity of the claims had been completed.

He told Algoa FM News that it was decided that hearings with the affected schools will be conducted from this week.

Pulumani says teams of officials from the provincial and national departments of education as well as quality assurer, Umalusi, will be holdinghearings in all seven districts where mass cheating is alleged to have taken place.

He says the probe will start in East London where it was alleged that there had been mass cheating at one school in the Mathematics paper.

From there the probe will go to Queenstown while another team will be in Dutywa on the same day.

Hearings will also be held in Libode, Mthatha, Mount Fletcher, Lusikisiki and Engcobo.

He says the final report will be released by the end of January.

It was previously reported that 28 exam centres in KwaZulu-Natal and 16 in the Eastern Cape are being investigated for cheating and that six centres in Gauteng, two in Mpumalanga, and one each in the Western Cape, North West and Northern Cape, also had irregularities.