Ethiopia Shut Down Internet Access Nationwide To Prevent Examination Malpractice From Students

This is the best discission Made So far, Internet Access Denied Because Of Examination In Ethiopia. Ethiopia has really taken their examination security serious to the extent they locked and shut down their Internet as student sit for exam. Ethiopia has reportedly done this thrice in a year as this is not their first time to shut down the internet for examination sake.




According to some reports, some papers where leaked for the national grade 10 exams, forcing the government to shut down the internet access. A Google transparency report that there where sharp dropping numbers of Ethiopian visitors to its websites on Tuesday.

 

Yet No One In Ethiopia has internet access, and it’s not because of a major power outage with telecom providers. It’s actually because students are in the midst of their exams. Even till now, the access has not been restored.


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This is the third time the government has blocked internet access in Ethiopia for three times in 12 months. The government also blocked internet access in July 2016 after University exam were leaked online and was also blocked off again in August 2016.

The drastic and quick move of the government was because of what happened last year, activists in Ethiopia leaked papers for the national grade 12 exams and the exam was postponed because of a school shutdown in the regional state of Oromia. Of course, if no one can access the exam papers online, no one can cheat.

If Nigeria And Other Countries decided to Adopt to this Strict Protocol For Student to Focus More On Studying How Many People Do You Think Will Make It In Their Examinations?