Ho Technical University Suspends Over 20 Students for Cheating in Exams
- Ho Technical University suspends nine students for one year over exam malpractice during the 2024/2025 first semester exams
- Eighteen additional students receive various sanctions, including one-semester suspension and cancellation of papers
- HTU reiterates zero-tolerance stance on academic dishonesty as security and faculty are tasked to enforce sanctions
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The Ho Technical University (HTU) has handed a one-year (two semesters) suspension to nine students who were caught engaging in examination malpractice.
According to the registrar of the institution, Dr C.K. Amehoe, the suspended students committed the act during the end of the first semester examinations of the 2024/2025 academic year.
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Eighteen other students have also been handed various sanctions, ranging from one-semester suspension to cancellation of papers.
Offences committed by the sanctioned students, according to a source, include smuggling foreign materials such as mobile phones into the exam halls. Others were also caught ‘sharing’ answers.
The university's action sends a clear message about its zero-tolerance policy towards academic dishonesty.
In a statement, the university made it clear that rusticated students must comply strictly with the terms of their sanction.
“The students who have been rusticated are advised to totally vacate the University Campus and should not interfere in any activity of the University during the stipulated period of sanction,” the school stated.
To enforce this, the Head of Security, Heads of Department, and Heads of Hall have all been explicitly informed and entreated to ensure that the students do not participate in any academic activity on campus until they have fully served their suspension period.
“This firm action serves as a strong deterrent, reinforcing the university's commitment to maintaining a fair and honest academic environment,” the school stated, advising other students to “...desist from engaging in any form of examination malpractice to avoid sanctions.”
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University of Ghana sanctions over 100 students
The suspension at HTU comes two months after similar action was taken by the University of Ghana (UG) authorities.
At UG, over 100 students were sanctioned for exams malpractice, including 14 students who were handed one-year suspensions. This happened in mid-June this year.
Sanctions issued in a notice from the Office of the Registrar dated 16 June 2025 include suspensions, expulsions, grade penalties, and formal reprimands.
They are categorised under two broad areas: general misconduct and examination-related offences.
Fourteen students, among them Mr Abdul-Yakini Lukman and Mr Daniel Ansah, were suspended for two academic years, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025, for disorderly behaviour and disobeying university authority, in line with Statutes 42(1)(a) of the University of Ghana Statutes 2011.
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Other students suspended by UG
In a related development, YEN.com.gh reported that the University of Ghana took disciplinary action against eleven students and staff members of the institution for various offences.
The offences included plagiarism, falsifying documents to secure university hostel rooms, and aiding and abetting colleagues to falsify documents.
Netizens who saw the post about the sanctions were heartbroken and expressed mixed reactions in the comments section.
Source: YEN.com.gh
