HEAD TEACHER HELPED PUPILS COPY

MBABANE – The head teacher of one of the primary schools in the country has been banned for life from ever administering the Swaziland Primary Certificate (SPC) examinations.

He has been banned by the Examinations Council of Swaziland (Exams Council) for malpractice.
After intense investigations, the administrator was found guilty of having assisted pupils who sat for one of the examination papers in the 2016 SPC exam.
The head teacher has not only been banned but is also yet to face the music from the Ministry of Education and Training.

This will happen once the Exams Council reports him to the ministry, where he will be expected to answer for his conduct.
Edmund Mazibuko, Registrar of the Exams Council, confirmed this yesterday.
He said the head teacher’s ban was a measure meant to send a stern warning to teachers and invigilators to desist from any malpractice during the course of the examination.
The registrar said the head teacher was not the only one banned, as this measure was also applied to all teachers and invigilators who were found guilty of misconduct during the 2016 SPC and Junior Certificate (JC) examinations.
In total, five schools – three primary and two secondary – had their results withheld for suspected malpractice.
Mazibuko said the anomalies were on seven subjects, in total.

Only one secondary school was cleared of malpractice and the rest were found guilty.
“This one school was cleared of examination malpractice but it was found guilty of exam maladministration,” he said.

Malpractice is when pupils are made to copy while maladministration is failing to follow procedure before the actual tests are written.
The school that was guilty of a lesser crime was warned to follow all procedure in future.
Pupils involved in malpractice were punished by losing the marks for the subjects they copied.

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