Call for more checks into cheating
An anticorruption network yesterday called on the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate tutorial schools in front of Ramkhamhaeng University.
The schools are believed to have engaged in aiding widespread exam cheating, including in the recent noncommissionedpolice recruitment exams.
“We believe tutors have caused more than Bt1 billion in damage to the country,” AntiCorruption Network secretarygeneral Mongkhonkit Suksintaranont said.
He also petitioned the DSI when police were probing alleged cheating in its June 10 recruitment exams.
To date, 10 suspects have been arrested in this case and warrants have been issued for two others who are still on the run.
He said tutorial schools outside Ramkhamhaeng University had used fake documents to hire academically competent persons to sit the tests in place of students who agreed to pay them a service fee. He said in some cases, the tutors had provided communications tools to help feepaying students cheat.
“We have heard that the tutors have close ties with some important figures at the Education Ministry. We also want to know if these tutors are involved in the recent policerecruitment exams,” he said.
Provincial Police Region 3 deputy commissioner MajGeneral Jaktip Holasutsakul, who heads the investigation into cheating in the policerecruitment exam, said checks revealed that 149 out of 36,706 exam papers definitely had suspicious marks and symbols. However, he said these papers scored less than 50 per cent, suggesting the gang offering the cheating services might not have known the contents of the exam at all.
However, in the South, some engineering students were found to have used fake ID cards to sit in the policerecruitment exam for a fee of Bt20,000.
