Clueless varsities rewarding hackers with top grades

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When a leading university claimed in a court that its systems were hacked into and exam results of three students altered, the lid on a bucket of rumours was lifted. Would the university have admitted to the hacking had it not been taken to court? How many of such incidences go unreported? Hashtag sought to unearth why research puts Kenyan students fourth on the list of top hackers in Africa.

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.