Obec chief faces probe over exam cheating

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Obec chief faces probe over exam cheating
Supinda na Mahachai
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Chinnapat Bhumirat, secretary-general of the Office of the Basic Education Commission, is facing another negligence probe involving alleged cheating in the exam for assistant teachers across the country.

Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang said yesterday that he had already approved a disciplinary probe of Chinnapat and seven other officials after a fact-finding committee found evidence that the officials failed to follow proper procedures to protect the confidentiality of state information.

In January's recruitment exam, hundreds of test takers had unusually high scores, raising suspicions that exam questions and answers had been leaked.

Chinnapat is already facing another inquiry for alleged dereliction of duty.

The seven other officials include Anan Ra-ngabtook, an inspector-general, and Krai Kestan, director of Obec's Monitoring and Evaluation Bureau, said Panita Kambhu na Ayutthaya, permanent secretary and head of the fact-finding committee.

"For example, none of the three officials entrusted with the keys to safe deposit boxes, which stored notebooks containing exam questions and answers, at a bank had kept the keys with themselves," she said.

Krai was also allowed to contact the bank to open the safe deposit boxes alone and put the account under his name.

"Normally, safe deposit boxes must be in Obec's name," she said.


-- The Nation 2013-08-29

[NongKhaiKid]

This is only the tip of a very massive iceberg. If cheating, arranging passes and / or improved grades was ever fully investigated I doubt there's an educational facility, at all levels, that would get a clean bill of health.

As an extension of corruption cheating is endemic in Thailand.

[bkkgriz]

Need to start production. I'll be rich in no time.

[MaxLee]

What's the difference, the rich and powerful political elite all cheat, encourage their children to cheat, and tell the officals for their 'innocent-not-having-anything-to-prove-kids' to be under the table money excused...

Many people cheat in Thailand... so why make a headline,... the whole world knows...

[Phuket electrician]

English exam for Thai undergraduate 4th years.

Instructions. Read the post card and answer the questions.

August 2013

Hello Dad,

I'm in Phuket Thailand, it's hot and sunny here. I'm watching the hungry ghost festival,

Will be leaving for Laos tomorrow.

Love Tom

Question 1. Where is Tom? Answer: it the poscard

Question 2. What is he doing? Answer: rodeing poscaerd

Question 3. Who wrote the post card? Answer: teCher is

Question 4. What is the weather like? Answer: yes

Question 5. Where's Tom going? Answer: i not no

Question 6. When is the Hungry ghost festival? Answer: go lao

Result - C+

[Utley]

"...after a fact-finding committee found evidence that the officials failed to follow proper procedures to protect the confidentiality of state information."

Amazing - the teachers who cheated are not to be blamed but rather the exam officials for not following proper procedures! TIT

[Bagwan]

The party's over, it's time to call it a day, they've taken your pretty balloons and all of your bribes away.

Maybe. Maybe not.

[lee b]

Cheating will not get you anywhere in the long run me thinks