Rabat – A video went viral this Tuesday, June 15, showing students of Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra publicly and comfortably cheating during their final exams.
The students of Kenitra’s University are shown using notes, smartphones and discussing answers during the exam.
In the background, you can hear cheering from what is assumed to be other students, looking into the classrooms through the glass windows and filming the chaos.
The unfortunate cheating scandal followed the university’s refusal to postpone the spring session exams, despite most students pleading for the rescheduling.
The students then decided to boycott the exams.
Students and members of the national education sector affirmed on social media that the responsibility lies with the president of the university and the dean of the concerned college.
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Following the scandal, the University presidency issued a press release, announcing the postponement of the exams.
“Due to the non-pedagogical circumstances that marked the spring semester exams at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, and in order to preserve the integrity and credibility of the exams, it was decided to postpone the exams for open access cycles, to a date that will be announced later,” the statement explained.
Petitions and protests have become a regular occurrence in the halls of the university for over a year now, all for making legitimate yet unmet demands regarding the postponement of exams, the opening of the university canteen, providing university transport, the distribution of scholarships and above all the opening of student housing.
The boycott threats are not new. Students from the university have been protesting and threatening a boycott for years, due to what they say is the university’s “silence in the face of the suffering of thousands of students.”
A report from Al Massae dating back to February of this year details the dire state of communication between the student body and the university’s administration.
Students are collectively complaining about the university’s negligence and dismissal of legitimate student claims.
