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Mauri Yambo

• June 10, 2009
• University of Nairobi Students Reject Sub-Standard HIV/Aids Exam

  Posted: June 10th, 2009, 2:21am EDT by Mauri Yambo

  Last Monday, University of Nairobi students walked out of an examination hall in protest against a compulsory, end-of-semester HIV/Aids examination paper which, they argued, was not only sub-standard but also contained the answers that they were supposed to struggle to give.
  
  That was truly a strange incident. Equally bizarre was the revelation that the paper had a multiple-choice format, which is supposed to be contrary to University policy -- though some of us have been rooting, unsuccessfully, for the sanctioning of that format as an option in specific undergraduate settings (particularly courses with very large student numbers). Morehttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping