{"id":38502,"date":"2018-11-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/two-teachers-arrested-over-suspected-exam\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:30:28","slug":"two-teachers-arrested-over-suspected-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/two-teachers-arrested-over-suspected-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teachers arrested over suspected exam malpractices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duo identified as Michel Nsabyimpuhwe and Alex Habyarimana was arrested red-handed yesterday, October 13 trying to help pupils cheat at GS Kirambo, a 12 years\u2019 basic education school which also serves as a site for national primary leaving exams located in Kirambo Cell, Gitesi Sector of Karongi District.<\/p>\n<p>Nsabyimpuhwe is a teacher at Murambi Primary School whereas Habyarimana teaches at Muvungu Primary School.<\/p>\n<p>After their arrest, they were handed to Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) which has started investigations as Modeste Mbabazi, the Bureau Spokesperson confirmed it to IGIHE.<br \/>\nMbabazi said that the investigations are looking for other teachers who might have got involved in the plot to help pupils cheat. <\/p>\n<p>National primary leaving examinations for the academic year 2018this year have attracted a total 255,173 primary school pupils of who 138,831 are girls. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27576 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/a_total_of_138_831_girls_and_116_342_boys_are_sitting_for_the_2018_primary_leaving_exams_an_increase_of_7.6_percent_compared_to_last_year.jpg\" alt=\"A total of 138,831 girls and 116,342 boys are sitting for the 2018 primary leaving exams, an increase of 7.6 percent compared to last year\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two primary school teachers in Karongi District have been arrested over allegations of helping pupils to cheat in the ongoing national primary leaving exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38502"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38502"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}