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The Nurses and Midwives Council has cancelled results of 56 nursing
trainees for cheating in examination through the use of social media
application 'Whatsapp'.
Students at the Holy Family Nursing and Midwifery Training College in
Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region were found to have cheated in the
examination hall when they sat for the licensing examination using the
Whatsapp platform on their phones.
They are said to have taken pictures of the question papers, sent them
to an external collaborator who answered them and then sent the
answers back to the students in the examination hall via the same
platform.
The students were found to have cheated in the examination hall after
a mobile phone belonging to one of them fell from her panties onto the
floor.
A chief invigilator at the examinations hall provided photographic
evidence of correspondence between the students and an external
collaborator.
A team of consultants was tasked to investigate and ascertain the
extent to which the candidates involved benefitted after which the
students were questioned.
Initially, majority of them feigned ignorance about the evidence
provided. However, upon further probing, they changed their stance,
with the explanation that they did not understand the question.
The college has been de-recognised by the NMC as an examination centre
for three years, while the students will not be permitted to write the
licensing examination for two consecutive times.
According to Felix Nyante, the Registrar of the NMC, the decision of
the council to sanction the students was based on the fact that they
flouted the NMC's rules, which included "bringing foreign materials
into the examination hall, collusion and mass cheating".
Credit: Myjoyonline.com
