Oh Boy, What a Catch!

TAIF, 9 April 2004 — Taif University this week experimented with a novel invigilation technique to counter the growing menace of cheating, according to a local press report. Al Madinah newspaper said an innovative professor at the university brought in a 10-year-old boy to invigilate his big brothers during a chemistry exam. Though uninitiated in the finer points of copying and other means of cheating at exams, the boy went about the job with the single-minded concentration of the very young. So watchful was he, the paper said, that most students did not dare to try anything on, and those who did were promptly caught by the youngster, who handed them over to the authorities for punitive action.