Final exams still by mail bag
Secondary schools may continue to send final exams completed by post to the second corrector. Minister Slob will inform the Lower House of this. Last summer, mailbags from two schools were lost, and students had to take the exams again. However, it is too complicated to exchange exams electronically from now on, says the minister.
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About XNUMX German and biology graduate students from Driehuis had to take the exam again last year, because the postal package containing the exams had been lost. And pre-university students at Rythovius College in Eersel had to retake two final exams, because a mail bag containing the exams had been stolen.
The exam work must not be intercepted or become susceptible to digital manipulation from the outside
Following these incidents, Minister Slob, together with the VO Council and the national Platform Exam Secretaries, had investigated whether exams should be sent digitally from now on.
Risks
However, this digitization turns out to be laborious, and in itself also entails risks, Slob now writes to the House of Representatives. 'For example, all correction work should be scanned. This not only entails an enormous organizational and implementation burden for schools, but also entails a high risk of errors - in the form of badly scanned and illegible documents or forgotten pages.'
Secured
In addition, the digital exchange of exams places high demands on the security and reliability of the ICT of the schools, according to the minister. 'There must be sufficient capacity to store the digitized correction work, and the work must then be sent securely. After all, it must not be intercepted or become susceptible to digital manipulation from outside. '
The conclusion of all this, according to Minister Slob, is that schools themselves must remain responsible for exchanging correction work with another school. 'Schools can choose which postal service or courier service they use.'
