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Exams are rubbish...

A Belgian university lecturer is in trouble after accidentally throwing out 700 exam papers with the rubbish. Students who now have to retake their psychology exams are furious with Hugo Schouppe of Lessius High School in Antwerp. Mr Schouppe had taken the exam papers home to mark them and then brought them back to his office to enter the results into a computer. But he got side-tracked and left them on a desk, near a wastepaper basket, where a cleaner mistook them for rubbish and threw them out.

Hugo said: “I regret it from the bottom of my heart. “There is no other way than taking the exams a second time. That is honest to all students.” University director Flora Carrijn confirmed: “We looked everywhere but we couldn’t find them. After a meeting with our legal advisor we thought it was better to take the exams again, to give every student a fair chance.”

Maybe if he’d had a seperate pile for recycling this wouldn’t have happened.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .