PARIS - The government has shown its firmness Sunday on fraud examination

PARIS - The government has shown its firmness Sunday on fraud examination, Valérie Pécresse refuting the S tank leaks are a "schoolboy prank" and warning that action would be taken, especially against the development of internet and smartphones.
Sunday, the list of incidents recorded in 2011 on the sidelines of examinations and competitions has further lengthen, hundreds of students boycotting BTS Arcueil (Val-de-Marne) a test reorganized after being canceled due to " fraud "at its original place in May.
Internet broadcasting of the performance of the mathematics of the tank S, in which three young men have been charged Saturday in Paris, are not "a schoolboy prank," has also held on the J Radio Minister of Higher Education, Valérie Pécresse.
This term was used by sources close to the investigation, counsel for the main suspect, Mr. Olivier Morice, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Left Party).
In unison with the firm instructions of Education Minister Luc Chatel, who from the leak revealed officials had warned they were exposed to three years in prison, the Paris prosecutor's office had demanded that the three young be detained.
A petition rejected by the judge and that Mr. Morice was deemed "completely disproportionate": "We feel that (this request) warrant is a guarantee given to the public after the statements of Minister Luc Chatel ".
Investigators are still trying to identify what could be the "source" of the leak that shook the baccalaureate, rising voices for reform and a greater share given to continuous assessment.
Luc Chatel has decided not to cancel the event "in the interest of students and their families, and given the limited nature" of the leak. The exercise is not incriminated included in the ratings.
Two appeals were lodged against that decision before the administrative courts, one of which must be examined Thursday in Paris.
For Valerie Pécresse, the baccalaureate institution, the school system two centuries old, should be protected, "It is a singular lack of discernment not to realize that by posting these topics, we put at risk bin 165,000 students. "
She reiterated that she and her colleague Luc Chatel were engaged in "a very determined fight against all attempts at fraud."
"Today, with internet, there is the risk of spread fraud in the general public, so you'll have to think about," said the minister on Radio J.
The government is considering such a ban in the examination rooms of smartphones, one way of cheating in question to cancel the test of BTS ironed Sunday at Arcueil. Some test centers are considering jamming cell phones.
"We will answer these questions in September-October when our inspections have made their report," she assured.
In a circular dated May 26, a circular of Education has highlighted the risks inherent in these modern means.
The case of leakage of the tank S has undermined the institution of the French school system, created during the Napoleonic era. The former minister Jack Lang suggested that we return to a system of subjects by academy that would not threaten the entire system in case of leakage.