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How cheating in exams hurts society

Once again, it is the dawn of another period of celebrations and gloom for parents and their children who sat the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations, whose results were released Wednesday.

The perennial problem of examination irregularities does not seem to be going away. If anything, it is worsening, with the perpetrators becoming bolder with time. It is apparent that involvement in examination cheating is emerging as a growth industry in Kenya.

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