Exam cheats should be heavily punished
Sep 19, 2010
EDITOR: Students at all levels who engage in examination malpractices should be discontinued. I have read with shock the story that 40 Makerere University Business School (MUBS) 40 students have been suspended for examination malpractices.
EDITOR: Students at all levels who engage in examination malpractices should be discontinued. I have read with shock the story that 40 Makerere University Business School (MUBS) 40 students have been suspended for examination malpractices.
A suspension of two years is not enough.
The moment they are forgiven, it will encourage others to continue with the malpractice ready to take simple punishments. Examination malpractice is not good for the development of Uganda.
It will produce lazy, less competitive, less confident, less motivated and poor manpower, with poor working skills. This is not what Uganda needs in this era of globalization. What Uganda needs is the best and brightest produced by higher institutions of learning to meet the challenges of a global village.
The culture of students spending more time partying and socializing results in missing lectures. Because of that, such students do not hand in coursework in time. This leads to 'copying and pasting' work, failing tests or giving lame excuses for not abiding by the university's rules and regulations.
Worse still, some spend tuition fees on luxuries. The end result is missing graduation and thereafter dropping out of school, to the disappointment of their parents or guardians who struggle to pay their fees! Students must know their roles and think of their families back home who struggle to pay their hard-earned money as tuition and upkeep.
I do not agree with the excuse the MUBS students are giving. They claim that, they were not given a fair hearing.
The law of natural justice should not be misused like that. If these students are forgiven basing on this law, expect increased examination malpractice at all level of education.
These are the leaders of tomorrow so groom them in the best way possible, so that they do not engage in fraud.
Jimmy Alemiga
Uganda Media Centre
A suspension of two years is not enough.
The moment they are forgiven, it will encourage others to continue with the malpractice ready to take simple punishments. Examination malpractice is not good for the development of Uganda.
It will produce lazy, less competitive, less confident, less motivated and poor manpower, with poor working skills. This is not what Uganda needs in this era of globalization. What Uganda needs is the best and brightest produced by higher institutions of learning to meet the challenges of a global village.
The culture of students spending more time partying and socializing results in missing lectures. Because of that, such students do not hand in coursework in time. This leads to 'copying and pasting' work, failing tests or giving lame excuses for not abiding by the university's rules and regulations.
Worse still, some spend tuition fees on luxuries. The end result is missing graduation and thereafter dropping out of school, to the disappointment of their parents or guardians who struggle to pay their fees! Students must know their roles and think of their families back home who struggle to pay their hard-earned money as tuition and upkeep.
I do not agree with the excuse the MUBS students are giving. They claim that, they were not given a fair hearing.
The law of natural justice should not be misused like that. If these students are forgiven basing on this law, expect increased examination malpractice at all level of education.
These are the leaders of tomorrow so groom them in the best way possible, so that they do not engage in fraud.
Jimmy Alemiga
Uganda Media Centre