Vietnam. Students wear wigs wired with mobile phones to pass exams

Twenty-six teachers and education officials went on trial Monday in southern Vietnam for allegedly accepting bribes from more than 1,700 students to help them pass their graduation exams, a court official said, reports the China Post. Image left from the BBC.

"The defendants were charged with accepting bribes of $33,000 to illegally raise the scores of 1,740 high school students last year in Bac Lieu province, said court official Tran Van Khang.

Last year, Vietnam launched a campaign to clean up rampant cheating in education. Authorities broke up a ring in which more than 20 students each paid them up to S$3,125 for wigs and shirts that were wired to mobile phones, allowing them to cheat on their college entrance exams by calling in test questions and answers.

Hanoi police confiscated 50 mobile phones, 60 earphones, 150 SIM cards, eight shirts and five wigs during a raid in July last year."

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