Limkokwing fires lecturer for leaking paper

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer | Thursday June 10, 2010 00:00

Joseph Raisi, 36, dismissed on Monday, was lecturing in the university's Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) since October 2009.

Public relations manager, Mercy Bonnie Thebe confirmed the incident and said the lecturer confessed to his role in the incident after the students gave him up after they were called for a hearing on the matter.

According to Thebe, the concerned students will not be allowed to retake the paper but will be penalised according to the code of plagiarism that states that a minimum action would be to award them zero marks.

'Not all the students were affected but only those who have been found to have used that marking key will get a zero mark for the assignment and will not be allowed to retake it. We are not sure how many students are involved at this point until after their hearing which will be held in the near future,' Thebe said.

The students who got the marking key apparently passed it to their friends and were caught after the lecturers marking the paper on Java computing 1 programming realised that many had the same answers and answering patterns.

When asked for a comment, Raisi refuted the allegations and said he was not dismissed but rather resigned of his own free will for greener pastures, as he would be leaving the country in the next two months.

'That's a pack of lies that I leaked the marking key to the students. By the way I am not Raisi and I will sue if you publish this and this number won't register that it is Mascom,' he said.