NIE Director and faculty trainer additional remanded over scholarship examination paper ‘leak’
The Director of the Making plans Department of the Nationwide Institute of Schooling (NIE) in Maharagama and the college trainer, who had been arrested through the Legal Investigations Division (CID) over the Grade five scholarship exam query paper factor, had been ordered to be remanded till October 22.
This order was once issued after the arrested 58-year-old NIE Director, who was once a member of the committee which ready the 2024 Grade 05 Scholarship Exam paper, and the 49-year-old trainer who have been engaging in tuition categories, had been produced prior to the Kaduwela Justice of the Peace’s Court docket, Ada Derana reporter stated.
On September 20, an investigation was once introduced through the Division of Examinations after it was once alleged {that a} query paper from the examination have been leaked. Later, the preliminary investigation record has been passed over to the Legal Investigation Division (CID), which is recently engaging in additional inquiries.
In the meantime, the Secretary of the Ministry of Schooling, Thilaka Jayasundara, introduced that the paper marking technique of the Grade five Scholarship Exam, which was once hung on September 15, has been briefly suspended, owing to the problem.
Moreover, the Schooling Ministry stated the verdict on whether or not to carry the Grade five Scholarship Exam once more or now not can be made after the CID and the Assessments Division whole their investigations into the alleged leaking of questions. The verdict can be in line with the findings and proposals of the related investigations, in keeping with the Ministry Secretary.
The Commissioner Basic of Examinations Amit Jayasundara stated that investigations are being held into an incident the place 3 questions very similar to the ones at the Grade five Scholarship examination paper had allegedly been posted on-line by means of a style examination paper.
He had additionally said that if investigations discover that the questions have in truth been leaked, the related questions could be pushed aside all over the paper marking procedure.
He printed that an investigation was once carried out in line with the tips gained alleging {that a} trainer within the Alawwa space had uploaded a style query paper to social media which had incorporated 3 questions very similar to 3 questions within the first paper of the Grade five Scholarship Examination.
Alternatively, the fogeys have asked that the President to believe keeping a second look for the primary paper of the Grade five Scholarship Exam, as they claimed 8 questions, and now not 3, had been leaked previous to the examination.
By contrast backdrop, Sri Lanka Police has knowledgeable that anybody with proof or wisdom of any examination questions, instead of the 3 questions already purported to had been leaked, being disclosed previous to the 2024 Scholarship Exam, to return ahead with proceedings through nowadays (07).
This yr’s scholarship examination was once held at 2,849 facilities around the island, with 323,879 applicants taking part.
