Terrence Mawawa| The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) is reportedly printing examination papers in the United Kingdom to combat widespread cheating.

The exams body which has been plagued by leakages is outsourcing the printing to minimise the leaking of papers, a ZIMSEC official has revealed.

ZIMSEC board chairperson, Eddie Mwenje told a weekly the move would avert cheating.

“We are outsourcing and we have
always been outsourcing and this is
not the first time.

Zimsec examines quite a number of students and there is Grade 7, Form 4 and A’ Level and that is quite a lot.
The printing facility that we are setting up in Norton is almost complete and therefore, this is the reason why we could not print all stuff here. We are printing some of the stuff with our other machines, but we couldn’t print everything and that is why we have to do outsourcing externally as well,”said Mwenje.

ZIMSEC sources also revealed the move was meant to combat leaking of exams.