Staff Reporter|A teacher at a high school in Gwanda wrote an O’level mathematics paper for a pupil.
The pupil has failed the subject for the last 6 years running and the aforementioned is also a lecturer teaching at a local college.
Information availed to ZimEye.com by sources within the school narrates the teacher who runs private mathematics lessons, connived with the lecturer who has been failing Mathematics for the last six years to have him write the paper for him at the cost of $250.00.
The teacher went into the examination room on the date and pulled a copy of the question paper and answer sheets which he took to his office and wrote the exam with the candidate’s name and details on the answer sheets.
Towards the end of the examination the teacher is said to have worked in cohorts with the invigilator and got the papers to the candidate who in turn handed them in to the invigilators at the end of the examination as his.
The development comes as the Public Service Commission recently warned that it will retire all civil servants working without a pass in mathematics in areas where mathematics pass is a requisite qualification. A number of civil servants particularly those engaged in the period up to the turn of the century were hired without a mathematics pass on condition that they will study and pass it while at work. Most of them never even attempted doing the studies but remained at work.
The Public Service Commission audits have caused a huge panic amongst the government employees affected who have gone on a fast trek bid to pass mathematics. The urgency to get the maths pass is what could have pushed the perennial maths failing lecturer to resort to buying his way through.
The sources revealed that the headmaster of the school is aware of the incident but did not take action. The sources allege that they have a strong conviction the headmaster is part of the syndicate in which more incidents of this nature in other subjects are the norm at the school.