CIPS exams postponed following British Council security breach

source: Standay Standard
by Bashi Letsididi
25.05.2009

An employee of the British Council and a student customer of his were nabbed by the police in connection with leaked examination papers.
As a result, the examinations were postponed.

The postponement came at great inconvenience to some students from out of town who had booked hotel accommodation in Gaborone for the period of time that they would have been writing the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) examinations.
CIPS is a United Kingdom-based organisation whose training and formalised assessment leads to internationally recognised certification.

Sunday Standard’s information is that the papers were selling for P500 a piece. One of the buyers was caught in Mochudi and the investigations led to the supplier, a British Council employee.
The employee’s main undoing was [continue reading]

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