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How miniskirts, smartphones and jackets aid exam cheating

It is utterly incomprehensible why examination cheats go to such lengths to engage in subterfuge when the route of honest study is by far less taxing. [File, Standard]

First, an appropriate caveat: Most Kenyan university students are inherently good, and always exercise utmost integrity in their examinations.

The few who cheat, however, are a perennial thorn in the flesh of academic managers. These are sometimes identifiable by their bizarre affinity for heavy jackets, hoods, caps -and often- the briefest wads of miniskirts (the weather notwithstanding) just before examinations.

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