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posted by mrpg on Sunday June 24 2018, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-carrier dept.

As solutions go, it is certainly radical: in order to thwart a mass epidemic of cheating by students taking their school leaving exams, Algeria shut down the internet for up to three hours a day this week – for everyone.

[... The public telephone operator Algérie Telecom] published a timetable of the shutdown schedule: three one-hour blackouts, coinciding with the first hour of each baccalaureate exam, on Wednesday, and two each on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

[...] Cheating among the more than 700,000 students who take Algeria's bac was so widespread in 2016 that the education ministry declared several exams void and using new question papers.

[...] Algeria is not, however, the only country to take such radical steps during exam season: Syria, Iraq, Mauritania, Uzbekistan and several Indian states reportedly block access to the internet. Ethiopia shuts down social media.

Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by canopic jug on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:29AM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:29AM (#697446) Journal

    In all likelihood these shutdowns are just practice for dealing with civil unrest or even just political opposition.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:11AM (#697465)

    I can't help but believe this same paradigm is the underlying driver of Win10... the foundations are now being laid to facilitate updating any WIN10 system to a brick should someone deem it to be so.