Techspot: Algeria is shutting down its internet to stop students cheating on their examsThe country has announced that both mobile and landline internet services will be turned off for an hour at the start of each high school diploma exam. There will be 11 blackouts, which started on Wednesday and will continue until June 25. Algeria is also blocking Facebook across the entire country during this period.
The move follows a cheating epidemic among the 700,000 students who took Algeria’s leaving exams in 2016. Test questions hit the web before and during the exams, leading to several of them being declared void and 500,000 resits using new question papers. Thirty-one people were arrested, several of whom were education ministry employees.
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