Clueless varsities rewarding hackers with top grades

East African Data Handlers Managing Director George Njoroge.

NAIROBI, KENYA: The High Court, last month, concluded a year-long exam malpractice case at Kenyatta University. The judgment read on January 24, 2018, saw Losem Naomi Chepkemoi, a student, walk away triumphant after the court declared that the university had dealt with her unfairly.

Naomi launched a legal fight against KU last year when she received a discontinuation letter from the university citing her involvement in an exam irregularity that saw her doctor her exam results. Naomi who failed to graduate with her classmates in December 2016 told the court that she was only ten days away from obtaining Bachelor of Science degree in Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics when the university slapped her with a suspension letter. According to the university, Naomi had failed to explain before a disciplinary panel why five units in which she had scored D had been changed to A.