Two detained in Hoa Binh as exam cheating scandal spreads
Police detained two education officials in the northern province of Hoa Binh on August 3 as the probe into the scandalous national high school graduation exam cheating spreads.
The two arrested education officials Nguyen Khac Tuan and Do Manh Tuan (Source: vov.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) -Police detained two education officials in the northern province of Hoa Binh onAugust 3 as the probe into the scandalous national high school graduation examcheating spreads.
The Ministry of Public Security issued four-month arrest and search warrantsagainst Nguyen Khac Tuan, 37, an employee of the Division of Examination andQuality Management under the Hoa Binh Department of Education and Training; andthe 39-year-old Do Manh Tuan, Vice Rector of Lac Thuy district’s EthnicBoarding High School. They were both accused of abusing power.
A day earlier, Hoa Binh province officially launched an investigation intoallegations of cheatings in the high school exam, making it the third localityin the spotlight after Son La and Ha Giang provinces.
Colonel Pham Hong Tuyen, Director of Hoa Binh Police Department, told the presson August 2 that the probe was initiated because of suspicions of abuse ofpower to interfere with the scores of the students’ multiple-choice tests.
Both of the two are members of the high school exam’s multiple-choice testscoring team, of which all five members were summoned to the police forinvestigation, said Nguyen Duc Luong, Deputy Director of the provincial Departmentof Education and Training on the same day.
Luong also revealed another name in the group: Nguyen Quang Vinh, head of thedepartment’s examination and quality management division; however, refused todisclose the names of the other two.
He said that the department on July 28 detected some “issues” in the scoringprocess of the multiple-choice tests which involved the computers used formarking.
Doubts over the high school exam result in Hoa Binh were raised after theprovince announced that it had 27 students scoring nine points and beyond in maths,accounting for 4.7 percent of the country. The rate was suspiciously high giventhat there were only 100 students achieving nine plus in a much easier mathstest last year, accounting for 0,46 percent of the national total.
Before Hoa Binh, Son La and Ha Giang provinces were found to have had severecheatings in which the scores of hundreds of students were raised higher thantheir real results. Five education officials in the two localities have beenarrested so far.-VNA
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The two arrested education officials Nguyen Khac Tuan and Do Manh Tuan (Source: vov.vn)
