The Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, has expelled 10 students and rusticated 103 others over examination malpractice. According to Volume 40 No. 4 of FUTO News, yesterday, the Biology Department recorded four casualties; Biotechnology, two; Biochemistry, one; Maritime Management Technology, one, and Information Management Technology.

It stated: “At its 144th meeting, the Senate considered the report on the cases of the students accused of examination misconduct, during the 2016/2017 Rain Semester examinations and found them liable for being in possession of cell phones, which contained answers relevant to the examination.”

Similarly, FUTO management rusticated 103 students, “following Senate consideration at the same meeting, of a report on examination misconduct, which found them liable of impersonation and copying from one another.”

Also, some staff were either terminated, dismissed or suspended from duty for involvement in a wide range of offenses against the Insitution’s code of conduct.