From All Africa

Cheating in secondary schools in the southern province of Gaza, and the recent clashes in the central province of Sofala between Mozambican government forces and gunmen of the former rebel movement Renamo forced the Ministry of Education to make additional expenditure of about three million meticais (around 100,000 US dollars), according to Jafete Mabote, director of the National Council on Exams, Certification and Equivalences (CNECE).

On Tuesday Mabote told reporters attending a national CNECE meeting in the southern resort of Bilene that some of the money was spent on holding special examinations for pupils whose schooling was disrupted in the Sofala regions worst hit by the conflict.

Because of the clashes in Gorongosa district, and around the small town of Muxungue in Chibabava district, 766 pupils were unable to take the normal examinations in December. The ministry had to arrange special exams for them in February

In the Gaza provincial capital, Xai-Xai, and in four other Gaza districts, the exams in all subjects in 10th and 12th grades had to be cancelled in December, because copies of the exam papers had circulated in advance. Here too new exams had to be organised under tighter security.

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