{"id":418383,"date":"2017-09-14T16:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/14\/ugandas-makerere-university-investigates-degree-cheats\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:39:56","slug":"ugandas-makerere-university-investigates-degree-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/14\/ugandas-makerere-university-investigates-degree-cheats\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Makerere University investigates degree cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">One of Africa\u2019s most prestigious universities is investigating how 300 students managed to get their degree results changed.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s Makerere University discovered that the students\u2019 marks had been tampered with in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought that some people responsible for managing the results system were behind the changes, Vice-Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe said.<\/p>\n<p>They are being investigated and the students\u2019 degrees have been withheld.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Patience Atuhaire in the capital, Kampala, says that the university-wide investigation will compare questionable degrees with students\u2019 result papers and exam results submitted by lecturers and colleges to their deans, going back to 2011. It will also look at the academic registrar\u2019s records.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, 600 students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences were removed from the graduation list, after a whistle-blower pointed out that their marks were lower than the pass mark for their courses.<\/p>\n<p>The university, in Kampala, is one of the most well known on the continent and has 40,000 students, many from outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Among its graduates are a number of current and former heads of state including Tanzania\u2019s first president, Julius Nyerere, and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p>But Professor Nawangwe told the BBC\u2019s Focus on Africa programme that the attempted cheating would not damage the university\u2019s integrity as \u201cwe were able to arrest the situation before anyone was able to get our academic papers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the staff suspected of being involved have been suspended and security measures are now in place to \u201cmake it extremely difficult for anyone to do that kind of thing again\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Africa\u2019s most prestigious universities is investigating how 300 students managed to get their degree results changed. Uganda\u2019s Makerere University discovered that the students\u2019 marks had been tampered with in 2015. It is thought that some people responsible for managing the results system were behind the changes, Vice-Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe said. 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