{"id":144118,"date":"2018-06-21T02:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/algeria-turns-off-internet-for-high-school-exams\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T02:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T02:46:55","slug":"algeria-turns-off-internet-for-high-school-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/algeria-turns-off-internet-for-high-school-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria turns off internet for high school exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Algerian Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/15CAF\/production\/_102136298_gettyimages-966193964.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit said the country could not &quot;passively&quot; accept any leaks                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Algeria has turned off its internet nationwide during high school exams in a bid to tackle cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Internet service, both mobile and fixed line, will go off for an hour after the start of each high school diploma exam to stop any leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Blackouts will continue throughout the exam season, from 20-25 June.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows widespread cheating in 2016, with questions leaked online before and during tests.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the authorities asked internet service providers to stop social media access last year, but the voluntary measures were not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian newspaper Annahar that Facebook would be blocked across the country throughout the entire period.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Benghabrit said while they are &quot;not comfortable&quot; with the decision, &quot;we should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, all electronic devices with internet access - for both students and school staff - have been banned from the country&#039;s 2,000 exam halls, with metal detectors set up at their entrances.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Benghrabit also said surveillance cameras and mobile phone jammers had been installed at exam printing presses. <\/p>\n<p>Just over 700,000 students will sit the high school certificate examinations over the next week, with results expected from 22 July.<\/p>\n<h2>You may also be interested in:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Brides sit final exams in wedding gowns <\/li>\n<li>Determined student nurses baby during exam<\/li>\n<li>Salah tackle turns up in law school exam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit said the country could not &quot;passively&quot; accept any leaks Algeria has turned off its internet nationwide during high school exams in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}