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The Department of Basic Education (DBE) said Monday that it had identified potential weaknesses in its systems amid the leak of tuition tests.
JOHANNESBURG – The Department of Basic Education (DBE) said on Monday it had identified potential weaknesses in its systems amid the leaking of tuition exams.
The Council of Education Ministers (CEM) is considering various security options to prevent exams from being leaked, but will not disclose them.
The department took another hit after a second tuition exam was leaked just before the students were seated, this time Physical Science Exam 2.
Last week, the Maths Paper 2 document was also initially leaked among Limpopo and Gauteng students, but is said to have gone further.
The Maths Paper 2 leak last week is being investigated by a Hawks homework team, and if students are found to have cheated, they could be banned from writing matricula for up to three years.
DBE employees found guilty of leaking the documents could face jail time.
But these potential penalties do not appear to be much of a deterrent, as the department’s system appears more vulnerable to circumvention.
The CEM is considering several security options to prevent exam leaks, but will not disclose what they are.
They said their investigations were at an advanced stage and that the details of their investigation would be made public at an appropriate time.
The DBE also said they had dispatched teams to the provinces to recheck security systems.
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