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Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-06-23 08:09:00
Career & Education

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/algeria-shuts-internet-prevent-cheating-school-exams [theguardian.com]

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