Zimsec tightens security

By The NewsDay | Oct. 25, 2016 | 1 Min read

THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) says it has tightened security over its public examinations material to curb leakages.

BY LUYANDUHLOBO MAKWATI

Zimsec spokesperson, Nicky Dhlamini, yesterday said this year’s national examinations had begun and appealed to heads of examination centres across the country to make sure high security standards are upheld.

“The council is appealing to all its stakeholders, individually and severally, to be vigilant and be on the lookout for rogue elements in the midst of our communities that are bent on discrediting our education system by violating the integrity of our examinations,” she said.

Dhlamini urged heads of centres, schools and all institutions that handle examination materials to increase security in and around their premises, especially at night, to guard against theft of examination papers.

“Centres are encouraged to be on the lookout for some people within the system, who collude to prematurely open question papers and coach individual students or groups using examination questions they pretend to have ‘spotted’,”she said.

Candidates were also warned not to entertain any persons purporting to be selling examination questions, but to report them to the police or Zimsec.

Dhlamini said armed police officers had been deployed at all strategic examination holding centres nationwide to safeguard examinations material.