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To: Jay who wrote (9556)	5/10/1999 8:33:00 PM
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True Story: DHAKA (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Bangladesh students sitting college final exams have been expelled for copying from text books, demanding the right to cheat in examinations and beating up teachers, education officials said. They said over half a million students appeared in the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations which started Thursday. ''Over 10,000 students have been expelled in the first two tests Thursday and Saturday,'' one official said. Violence over the two days ranged from stoning of teachers by students and their friends, setting examination rooms on fire and assaulting invigilators, police said. Students angry at not being allowed to cheat inside examination halls tore up questions, snatched away answer sheets and assaulted the monitors in northern Sherpur district, police and officials said, adding that similar incidents had occurred at various other centers. Dr A.T.M Sharifullah, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, said he felt distressed by the growing trend of using unfair means in examinations. ''I guess the main reason for such practices was a lack of moral values in the students,'' he told Reuters. ''We need a social commitment, including of parents of the students, to stop these sorts of unfair means,'' he added. ''The incidents of cheating are more evident in the villages, where students are mostly not prepared to sit tests. They rely more on the supply of copies by friends,'' said Dr. Jahanara Begum, Principal of the government-run Dhaka College.