Nasra Bishumba
26 April 2004
Kigali — The National University of Rwanda at Butare has expelled 400 students for submitting forged academic papers. Mr Silas Muremanzi, the vice rector in charge of academic affairs, said most of the expelled students were from the DR Congo.
The official said that the forgeries were detected after several students submitted academic papers with "suspiciously high marks".
A probe team appointed by the university travelled to the DR Congo to investigate the students. "What they learnt there is appalling," Muremanzi said.
An official who travelled to south Kivu, in the DR Congo, found that out of 324 students who had joined the university in the 2003/4 academic year, only six had qualified genuinely.
Similarly, of the 110 students who had registered for 2002/3, a mere 14 had authentic papers. The probe team was unable to trace the academic papers of another 96 students from the Congolese Education ministry, and had decided to expel them.
The university is also now planning to investigate the authenticity of the academic documents presented by students from Burundi, Uganda and Kenya, Muremanzi said.
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