Sunday, 20 September 2020

Why Would A Country Switch Off Its Entire Mobile Internet Service?

to stop students cheating at their exams!


photograph Paul Hanaoka/Unsplashit happened like this, according to news agency EFE, Sudanese authorities adopted the controversial measure to prevent the large scale exam cheating that occurred three years ago, when exam questions leaked online and the Ministry of Education had to organize a second exam session, every day, between 8 am and 11 am mobile internet is turned off nationwide, which leaves approximately 13 million mobile data subscribers unable to access the world wide web on their handhelds, the measure only affects mobile internet, allowing essential Government institutions as well as banks and companies using cable connections to remain operational, so during the month of September, over 500,000 high-school graduates in Sudan will be taking their university admission exams, and to discourage applicants from cheating mobile internet will be turned off nationwide for three hours every day, I wonder if that will ever happen in the UK, or perhaps cheating is not such a big problem?


No comments: