Zimsec exams leakage questioned

Harare West MP Jessie Majome has questioned the safety of the Ordinary and advance level examinations from leakages considering the fact that government was ring fencing the payment of examination fees.

Asking the deputy minister of primary and secondary education Paul Mavima in Paraliament, Majome said was that, while students and their parents are paying the money for examination and you are ring fencing it, what guarantees is the Ministry putting in place to ensure that those examinations that they will have paid for will be safe and will not have leaked given the fact that apparently the System or mechanism that the Ministry had imported from south Africa has failed to work.

"What is the Ministry doing to ensure that examinations do not leak any more when parents are paying for examination fees even for Grade 7?" she asked.

Mavima said the Ministry have not had incidences this year, so far of breach of security of examinations - Grade Seven, Ordinary and Advanced Levels.

"She is right to say that the technology system has not taken off. That was mainly because of technical issues with the State Procurement Board," said Mavima.

"However, having said that, we have put in place a very enabling system of monitoring and making sure that the delivery of examination papers from ZIMSEC Head Quarters to the cluster points is thoroughly done through ZIMSEC's own officers together with our PEDs and our DEOs. Money has been made available for logistical purposes at the district as well as the provincial levels for this monitoring to take place. We are seeing that so far it has yielded good results. We hope that it continues like that until we have finished the examinations season."