6/10/2014
HAVANA – Eight people were arrested in Havana for participating in the theft and sale of university-entrance exams, Cuban official media said on Monday.
Authorities arrested five secondary teachers, two education ministry employees and one person not linked to the sector, according to an official statement appearing in Communist Party daily Granma.
“It has been determined during the investigative process that the leaked materials were unscrupulously marketed by the five ... teachers, some of whom sold the exams and others who devoted themselves to reviewing the contents of the syllabus for the students, charging for this service,” the statement said.
In addition, the statement said that the charged individuals “admitted their participation in these regrettable deeds” and that currently authorities are working with the Attorney General’s Office to obtain evidence.
This “unjustifiable act” involves some families who “defrayed the purchase of the exam syllabuses or paid for the reviews, and students who consciously benefited from these practices,” the statement added.
Students began taking the university-entrance exams this year on May 6.
The applied mathematics exam given in Havana on that date was nullified and administered again a few days ago after it was found that a group of students had gotten advance access to the test, authorities said.
Last year, the government-run press revealed a similar case in which two Havana high school teachers and a worker at a print shop were arrested for fraud involving a mathematics exam.
HAVANA – Eight people were arrested in Havana for participating in the theft and sale of university-entrance exams, Cuban official media said on Monday.Authorities arrested five secondary teachers, two education ministry employees and one person not linked to the sector, according to an official statement appearing in Communist Party daily Granma.
“It has been determined during the investigative process that the leaked materials were unscrupulously marketed by the five ... teachers, some of whom sold the exams and others who devoted themselves to reviewing the contents of the syllabus for the students, charging for this service,” the statement said.
In addition, the statement said that the charged individuals “admitted their participation in these regrettable deeds” and that currently authorities are working with the Attorney General’s Office to obtain evidence.
This “unjustifiable act” involves some families who “defrayed the purchase of the exam syllabuses or paid for the reviews, and students who consciously benefited from these practices,” the statement added.
Students began taking the university-entrance exams this year on May 6.
The applied mathematics exam given in Havana on that date was nullified and administered again a few days ago after it was found that a group of students had gotten advance access to the test, authorities said.
Last year, the government-run press revealed a similar case in which two Havana high school teachers and a worker at a print shop were arrested for fraud involving a mathematics exam.
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