April 14, 2008

Big Brother in the exam halls

It could turn out that schools may be introducing a big brother type system of monitoring and checking pupils at they take the exams.

It an attempt to prevent fraud and cheating, the Examination Officers Association are asking for fingerprinting of pupils which will be their key to getting into the exam and whilst they are taking the exams CCTV will be monitoring their every move in order to prevent any cheating that may be going on.

Could bringing in CCTV and fingerprinting into schools actually make things better for the students who are already stressed out at the time, or is this a just another scheme to get monitoring into our everyday lives and by starting them off early.

Source [Daily Mail]